Mary Nyangweso PhD (ORCID 0000-0003-3254-3299) is the J. W. H. Peel distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Her specialty is African religions, Islam, religion and sexuality, religion and gender rights and religion and healthcare. She is author of Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (Praeger, 2014). Female Circumcision: The Interplay Between Religion, Gender and Culture in Kenya (Orbis Maryknoll, New York: 2007) co-author of Religion, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights, (Routledge, 2019). Her book ‘Transnational Africa: Culture and Religion in the Diaspora is forthcoming.