The Immanent Frame is pleased to announce changes to its editorial board, which was first constituted in March 2016 and works alongside Editor Mona Oraby and Editorial Assistant Alison Renna to bring content to the site.

Firstly, we want to thank outgoing board members Helena Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles), Iza Hussin (University of Cambridge), Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado, Boulder), Lisa Sideris (University of California, Santa Barbara), Todne Thomas (Yale Divinity School and Yale University), and Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan) for their years of service to TIF. We are grateful for their commitment, creativity, and support in creating rich discussions throughout the site.

Further, we are excited to welcome our new editorial board members, who begin their appointments this fall:

  • Shahzad Bashir is Dean of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom. He is the author of A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT, 2022), The Market in Poetry and the Persian World (Cambridge, 2021), Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam (Columbia, 2013), Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis (Oxford, 2013), and Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam (University of South Carolina, 2003). 

  • Jonathan Gold is Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia, 2015) and The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (SUNY, 2007). 

  • Ahmad Greene-Hayes is Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion-Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (Chicago, forthcoming 2025).

  • Constance Furey is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Poetic Relations: Faith and Intimacy in the English Reformation (Chicago, 2017) and Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge, 2006), and co-author with Sarah Hammerschlag and Amy Hollywood of Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Theology (Chicago, 2021). 

  • Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University. She is the author of The Objects that Remain (Penn State, 2020), American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (NYU, 2007), and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (Routledge, 1997).

  • Emily Ogden is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Chicago, 2022) and Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Chicago, 2018).

  • Myrna Perez is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio University. She is the author of Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy (Johns Hopkins, forthcoming 2024). 

The full list of staff at The Immanent Frame can be found here.