Mayanthi L. Fernando

Mayanthi L. Fernando is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works on religion, secularism, bodies, and the senses, and is the author of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014). She is currently writing a new book on nonhuman beings, the secular, and the post-humanist turn.