Hannah Peterson is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, supervised by Prof. Patrick Baert. Hannah's research focuses on how religious nationalist movements negotiate and gain traction across faith borders. Specifically, her study compares the mechanisms by which Christian Nationalist discourse and culture are translated and adopted by members of two non-Evangelical religious groups in the United States - Orthodox Jews and Latter Day Saints - in the context of the 2024 presidential election.
Hannah's research is funded by the Cambridge Trust and she is an Honorary PhD Scholar at the Woolf Institute.
Before beginning her PhD, Hannah completed an MA in Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a BA in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Bar Ilan University.
