Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Ayesha S. Chaudhry is the Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice and Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. She has held fellowships at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at UBC, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of 'The Colour of God' (Oneworld and HarperCollins India, 2021) and 'Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender' (Oxford University Press, 2014). Dr Chaudhry is currently working on a lyric biography of ‘A’isha bint Abu Bakr entitled The Little Red One.
Shadaab Rahemtulla
Dr Shadaab Rahemtulla is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. He also serves as the School's Director of Equality and Diversity. A Canadian Muslim of Indian heritage, Shadaab’s research interests lie in the relationship between religion, power, and resistance, exploring how sacred texts can be (re)interpreted to challenge social injustice. He is the author of the book, 'Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam' (2018) and editor of the volume, 'The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology' (published this year).
Radhika Govinda
Dr Radhika Govinda is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science, and the Director of GENDER.ED – the University of Edinburgh’s interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Dr Govinda’s teaching and research practice centre questions of intersectionality, feminist politics and decolonising knowledge production. She is currently working on a book manuscript on these very questions, drawing on 15 years of research and teaching experience in the UK and India. She is also an editor of ‘Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK’ (Zubaan Publications 2020).