Forrest Huntington

Forrest Huntington

Forrest was born and raised in Aurora, Colorado and is now a MA candidate in Islamic Studies at Columbia. He graduated from Regis University in Denver, Colorado with a BA double majoring in History and Religious Studies. He has a lasting interest in activism for religious tolerance, spending all four years in his undergraduate program working as an organizer for interfaith programming on campus. Forrest’s primary research interests are in studying the dynamic relationship of politics and theology over time in communities existing under colonialism and neo-colonialism, specifically with regard to conceptions of mysticism and family law. Forrest hopes to pursue a PhD after this program, with a desire to pursue deeper understanding of intellectual currents in international Islamic communities.