Maria Birnbaum

Associate Professor, @LSEIRDept. Views my own. Interested in history, theory, empire, anti-imperialism, and South Asia. Author of 'Taming The Imperial Imagination' http://tinyurl.com/2fw6w8n8

Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton, 2024) | A Universe of Terms (Indiana, 2022)

Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html Elizabethshakmanhurd.com

PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy