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Ayesha Chaudhry is associate professor of Islamic studies and gender studies at the University of British Columbia and a 2015-2016 Rita E. Hauser Research Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her research focuses on Islamic law, Qur’anic exegesis, and feminist hermeneutics. She is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender (2013) and is currently collaborating on a book project on interfaith feminist hermeneutics; she has also published in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Feminist Theology, and the Journal for Comparative Islamic Studies. She is an Early Career Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and recipient of the Research Mentorship award for her “Living Islam Between Text and Practice: A Case Study of Domestic Violence” project. Chaudhry received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto and Ph.D. from New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.