Leah Hunt-Hendrix is pursuing her doctorate at Princeton in Religion, Ethics and Politics. She graduated from Duke University, where she studied political science, focusing on the philosophical and theological foundations of political community. She has lived for the past two years in the Middle East where she taught in Upper Egypt before working with the Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, a research center of the American University of Cairo. From 2008-2009, she lived and studied in Syria. In returning to Princeton, she will be focusing her research on global ethics and contemporary Arab political thought around the topics of time, change, and secularism.