Julie Rajan is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University; an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Masters Program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-NB; and a member of the Affiliate Faculty in The Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-NB. Her research interests include: women’s human rights; gender-based violence in conflict; and colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms. Her monographs include: Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence (2011); Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims (2015); and Women, Violence, and the Islamic State: Resurrecting the Caliphate through Gendercide (forthcoming 2024).
She 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 Rights: Extra-Ordinary ‘Justice’ in the Post-9/11 Era, Special Issue for The Security Journal (March 2015).
Research Interests:
gender and human rights; gender-based violence in conflict; and colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms
