Hyun Jeong Ha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. Her research areas include religion and politics, sectarianism, gender, intersectionality, and ethnography in the Middle East. Her current research examines how Christians in Egypt negotiate their religious minority identity after the 2011 Arab Uprisings. She has written about the Arab Uprisings protests and intensified social discrimination towards religious minorities in the post-Arab Uprisings era, as well as religious education, Islamic feminism, and changes in family law in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in various journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, and Contexts, among others, as well as in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of The Nils Petter Gleditsch Journal of the Year 2023 and The 2023 Excellent Academic Book Award by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and was a Global Religion Research Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
