Hussein Ali Agrama is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He has ongoing research interests in the anthropology of law, religion, Islam, and the Middle East, as well as science, secularism, and phenomenology. His current projects concern the histories of modern intelligence agencies and their impacts on liberal imaginaries, and how the contemporary sciences are unexpectedly reshaping secularity. He is the author of Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (2012).