Laura E. Alexander

(she/her/hers)

Laura E. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in comparative religious ethics, with research specializations in religious ethics and human rights, migration and refugee concerns, just war and peacebuilding, and national borders and sovereignty. She has published multiple peer-reviewed articles on these topics, edited a volume of essays on theology and immigration, and is author of the textbook Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction (Routledge, 2023).

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2022
  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2017
  • 2023–present
    Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, 2017
  • –present
    Executive Director, Goldstein Center for Human Rights, 2023

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Virginia, Ph.D., Religious Studies

Contact Laura for

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