Ayesha Chaudhry

We pulled off an unexpected achievement in the spousal hire of Rumee's wife, Ayesha Chaudhry, who holds a joint position between CNERS and Women's & Gender Studies (WAGS).

Ayesha's field is also Islamic Studies and she was also teaching in the Department of Religion at Colgate University.  She is Canadian and holds degrees from Toronto (BA in Political Science and Philosophy, collaborative MA in the Departments of Near Eastern Civilizations and Women’s Studies) and NYU (PhD, 2009) and she is an expert on women and violence in Islam.  The title of her PhD was 'Wife-Beating in the Pre-Modern Islamic Tradition: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of Ḥadīth, Qur’anic Exegesis and Islamic Jurisprudence' and she is currently developing this for publication with Oxford University Press. She has another exciting collaborative project in the works for Stanford University Press.