This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian thought.
My research and teaching also focus on diverse traditions of educational theory and practice, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and liberalism in contemporary society.
Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg and Chicago.
In a piece for Sightings, I consider what popular movements and community organizations mean for the concept of the “religious left.” I question whether liberalism and secularism can truly help us respond to and think with calls for economic and institutional justice today.