She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Tanya’s research focuses on the meaning and role of religious phenomena for transnational actors in areas of peacebuilding, humanitarianism, human rights, and development. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research with several Christian and inter-religious faith-based organizations and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Luce Graduate Fellow with the CIHA Blog: Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa. Tanya has published in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and elsewhere. She is currently preparing her book, Faith-Based Organizations in Transnational Peacebuilding, for publication.