Mona Oraby is a scholar and editor whose research explores religion and society in comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She is the author of Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2024) and coauthor of A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 2022). For eight years (2017–2025), Oraby was editor of The Immanent Frame, curating and editing more than forty public-facing and experimental projects that advanced scholarly debate on secularism, religion, and the public sphere globally. Over the past decade, Oraby has pursued scholarly projects in the academic study of religion, law and society, and Middle East studies as a visiting scholar or fellow at many research institutions, including the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School (New York), the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen), the American Bar Foundation (Chicago), and the NYUAD Institute (Abu Dhabi). Her collaborative research has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. Oraby sits on the editorial boards of Arab Law Quarterly and Middle East Law and Governance. She previously served on the faculty of Amherst College and held the Jerome Hall postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She is currently an associate professor of political science at Howard University.