Lina M. Liederman

Lina M. Liederman is a sociologist of religion (PhD, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2001) with a multifaceted international research experience. She has worked and published on numerous topics, including: religion and social welfare; Orthodox diakonia; faith and fashion; and, more recently, religion and humour. Her latest co-edited volume is Muslims and Humour. Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts, (Bristol University Press, 2022). She is Affiliated Researcher at Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK and External Scientific Collaborator at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She is relocating to Washington, DC from where she will continue working on her research activities and interests.