Biography

Nelly Lahoud
Department:
Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Van Meter 139
Phone: 410 337-6248
Email: nlahoud@goucher.edu

Nelly Lahoud completed her PhD in 2002 at the Australian National University. In 2003, she held a post-doctoral position at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. In 2005, she held a Rockefeller Fellowship in Islamic studies, at the Library of Congress.

She has been teaching political theory at Goucher since 2004. Her courses include classical, modern, contemporary and Islamic political thought. Her research interest is in the area of classical and contemporary Islamic political thought.

Her publications include Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries, London/New York: Routledge, 2005; and co-editor (with A.H. Johns) of Islam in World Politics, London/New York: Routledge, 2005. She is currently writing a book about past and present radicalism in the Islamic tradition.