What you don't know about Jihad

Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont. She is a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Birmingham. Her research centers on Islam and Muslims in South Asia; imperialism; and intersections of religion, race, and belonging.

She is author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad (2017); co-editor of Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst (Equinox 2021); and co-author of Religion Is Not Done With You (Beacon 2024). She is working on two new book projects, Imperial Pandemics, on global Islamophobia and antisemitism as well as Pray On It: Adoption, Religion, and American History. Morgenstein Fuerst is the author of numerous articles about Islam, Islamic studies, and religion in South Asia.

She is also the cohost and coproducer of the grant-funded podcast Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion. Morgenstein Fuerst has won several teacher-scholar awards.