Karen Taliaferro is an associate professor of humanities in the Hamilton School. Her research focuses on political philosophy, religion and politics, and Islamic thought, with particular attention to ancient and medieval traditions of natural law. She previously taught at Arizona State University and Villanova University, where she also taught Great Books courses. She is the author of The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths (2019), which examines the relationship between divine law and human law in Abrahamic traditions. She is currently working on a book project on the political thought of the twelfth-century philosopher Ibn Rushd, exploring his writings in relation to Islamic philosophy and the broader Western intellectual tradition. Taliaferro has held fellowships at Princeton University’s James Madison Program, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, and the John Jay Institute for Faith, Society and Law. She is a former Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco and a recipient of a Boren grant for Arabic studies and research on human rights education in Morocco. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Marquette University.