Berkley Center

Emma Tomalin is the director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life and a senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She has been a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion since 2014. Her main research interests are focused around religions and global development and religion, gender, and society. Her articles have been published in Oxford Development Studies and Gender and Development, among others. Her most recent book is The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development (2015); she is also the author of Religions and Development (2013) and Gender, Faith and Development (2011), among others, and co-editor of Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas (2014).