Dr. Méadhbh McIvor is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, where her work focuses on human rights, religious activism, and the legal regulation of religion in Europe and the United States. Prior to joining Manchester's Department of Social Anthropology in autumn 2021, Dr. McIvor held a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and taught anthropology and religious studies at University College London and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the author of Representing God: Christian Legal Activism in Contemporary England, published in 2020 by Princeton University Press. Her current research explores the relationship between faith, civic engagement, and the pursuit of social justice among a progressive religious community in the US Southwest.