Dr Richard Gauvain
Lecturer
Richard Gauvain graduated with a doctorate in Theology and Religous Studies, with a specialization in Islamic Studies, from the University of Glasgow in 2002. Since then, he has worked in universities in the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom. He has worked in a variety of teaching and administrative positions and has taught in Anthropology, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, and Middle East Studies departments. His teaching and research interests are broad; and he has published in the fields of Anthropology of Islam, Islamic Law, Comparative Religions, Political Theology, and Anglican Studies.
Dr. Gauvain is an experienced lecturer. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Religious Studies, History, Middle East Studies, and Political Science Programmes. He has particular experiencing in teaching classes in research methods and theory.
Dr. Gauvain's research interests are broad and primarily ethnographic in nature. He has published on subjects in Islamic law, contemporary religious reform movements, ritual theory and law, contemporary Salafism in Egypt and the Middle East, and Anglicanism in the Middle East. His most recent work explores the discourse of protest within contemporary Sunni Islamic settings.