ROSE DEIGHTON-MOHAMMED

Rose Deighton-Mohammed an Assistant Teaching Professor at Emory University in the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Director of the Emory LINC Initiative (Learning through Inclusive Collaboration), an innovative interdisciplinary teaching program funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Emory’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.  

Professor Deighton-Mohammed is scholar of religion, gender, and public humanities. Her research in Religious Studies focusses on Islam and gender, Islamic feminist thought, Sufism, and religious abuse. Her published articles examine the relationship between Sufi concepts and embodied practices, and normative gender constructions. You can find her work published in the Journal of Islamic Ethics, Religion Compass, and Body and Religion. She is currently writing a book called Sufism and Gender: How Embodied Feminist Pedagogy Transforms a Tradition, which explores how modern Sufis are redefining spiritual training, teaching pedagogy, and community dynamics in ways that align with their values for trauma-informed care, gender justice, and anti-oppressive social values.  

Professor Deighton-Mohammed is highly active in developing public humanities frameworks and educational opportunities. For her, community-engaged teaching and scholarship are integral to advancing the public understanding of religion and the social value of religious literacy. She regularly engages in community partnerships with local independent bookstores and online communities and shares her research in public-facing mediums.  

In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Professor Deighton-Mohammed has worked in higher education and academic leadership for the past eight years.  Since 2015, she has helped to develop undergraduate academic leadership programs, like Emory’s IDEAS fellowship and has been part of a team developing public humanities graduate curriculum since 2019.