• Associate Teaching Professor & MA Program Director
  • Department: Women's and Gender Studies
  • Tel: : 848-932-8417
  • Office: RDJC, Rm. 201

Education

B.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1993

M.L.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2000

M.A. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, 2003

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, 2005

Research Interests

Gender and human rights; gender-based violence in conflict; colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms

Biographical Notes

Julie Rajan is Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Masters Program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-NB; and Affiliate Faculty member in The Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-NB. Her research interests include: women’s human rights; gender-based violence in conflict; colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms. Her monographs include: Women Suicide BombersNarratives of Violence (2011); Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims (2015); and Women, Violence, and the Islamic StateResurrecting the Caliphate through Femicide (forthcoming 2024). Rajan has co-edited and edited a number of collections and special issues, including: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World (2008); Human Rights in Postcolonial India (2016); and The United States, Security, and Human RightsExtra-Ordinary ‘Justice’ in the Post-9/11 Era, Special Issue for The Security Journal (March 2015).

Click here to read Rutgers - Focus review published in April 2012 on Julie Rajan's new book "Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence."

pdfClick here for Professor Rajan's CV

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