Incoming Fellow: Prof. Jocelyne Cesari

Welcome to Incoming CSoC Fellow of 2024-2025

Holds the Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham (UK) an​d is Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. From 2018 to 2024, she was the inaugural T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School. President elect of the European Academy of Religion (2018-19), her work on religion and politics has garnered recognition and awards: 2020 Distinguished Scholar of the religion section of the International Studies Association, Distinguished Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs and the Royal Society for Arts in the United Kingdom. Her new book: We God's Nations: Political Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022 (2023 Book Award of the Scientific Society for the Study of Religion). Other publications: What is Political Islam? (Rienner, 2018, Book Award 2019 of  the religion section of the ISA); Islam, Gender and Democracy in a Comparative Perspective (OUP, 2017), The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity and the State (CUP, 2014). She is the academic advisor of www.euro-islam.info