Eduardo Hernandez

Dr. Yarehk E. J. Hernández Peña is an educator and critical Muslim thinker hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Hernández Peña has worked in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland and Philadelphia as an inner-city public school teacher. He completed his undergraduate studies at the City College of New York, where he majored in Middle East History. He also minored in Comparative Religion with a focus on Jewish Studies. Dr. Hernández Peña continued with graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Master of Science in Education with a focus on urban education. He recently completed his doctorate in Religion with a focus on Islamic Studies at Temple University. His research interests include Muslim identity formation, sexuality and gender, Morisco Studies, Islamophobia, the intellectual history of race/racism and Muslim minorities in Spain and Latin America. Dr. Hernández Peña has also spent time traveling and studying Ilm al-Tassawuf (Sufism) in Europe and the United States.