Contributors of Articles

William D. Blake is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research interests include constitutional attitudes and judicial decision-making.

Ayal Feinberg is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of North Texas. He received a bachelor's degree in International Studies at Trinity College and a master's degree in government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. His research examines the homeland-disapora nexus, the politicalization of prejudice, and contemporary conflicts in the Middle East.

Amanda Friesen is Associate Professor of Political Science and a project director in the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture at IUPUI.

Andrew R. Lewis is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include religion and politics and the politics of law. He is the author of The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Cambridge, 2017).

Michele Margolis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's degree from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, published in 2018, is culled From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity.

Stephen T. Mockabee is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include political behavior, survey research methodology, and religion and politics. His work has appeared in Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and several edited volumes.

Christophe Monnot is Lecturer in the Sociology of Protestantism at the University of Strasbourg, France.

J. Tochukwu Omenma is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nigeria. Omenma holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics, and his teaching and research interests include African Politics, terrorism and counterterrorism, regional security, and elections, judiciary and democratic consolidation in Africa. His work has been published by the Security Journal, Career Development International, Journal of Security Sector Management (JoFSSM), Politeia and International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies (IJEMS).

Margarete Scherer is a researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Denys Shestopalets is a Ph.D. candidate in Ukrainian Studies at Monash University (Melbourne). He received his Master's degree in History from Luhans'k Taras Shevchenko National University in 2005. From 2008 until 2016, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2009–2010, he conducted research in the United States as part of a Fulbright fellowship.

Jörg Stolz is Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.