Katrin Jomaa is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. Her interdisciplinary research interests include classical and modern political philosophy, as well as Islamic thought and Quranic exegesis. Prof. Jomaa focuses on the relationship between politics and religion in the Middle East. Her research methodology uses the analysis of primary sources of Islam to explore key concepts that can be used to construct modern Islamic political theory. In addition to her interests in politics and religion, Prof. Jomaa has a passion for science, having earned two degrees in Engineering and Applied Materials Science. Prof. Jomaa’s teaching interests include Middle Eastern Politics, Islamic Political Thought, Political Philosophy, Islam and Democracy, Religion and State, and Introduction to Islam, Islam and Modernity, and Quranic Studies and Exegesis. She was awarded a visiting scholar position at the University of Oxford in the Spring of 2018, where she shared her research with the academic community.