Ceren Lord is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. She completed her PhD on religious political mobilisation at the Government Department, LSE. She is currently working on a monograph on the relationship between conflict and identity based on multi-sited fieldwork and focusing on ethno-religious minorities. Research interests & expertise span conflict, identity politics, ethnic/religious social movements, state-religion relations, Islamic authority and sectarianism, comparative authoritarianism.