CONTRIBUTORS OF ARTICLES

Alexandra Domike Blackman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Stanford University. Her dissertation research focuses on political development in French colonial Tunisia, as well as political behavior in the contemporary Middle East. Prior to Stanford, Alexandra was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellow in Egypt (2010–2011) and a Junior Fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law and Middle East Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Royal G. Cravens, III received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Tennessee. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Sexuality & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and researches LGBT political behavior.

Farid Hafez, Ph.D. (Political Science, University of Vienna) is a Senior Scholar at the University of Salzburg, Department of Political Science and Sociology. He is also Senior Researcher at Georgetown University's “The Bridge Initiative.” In 2017, he was Fulbright Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Since 2010 he has been the editor of the bilingual Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2015 the co-editor of the annual “European Islamophobia Report.”

Reinhard Heinisch is Professor of Austrian Politics in Comparative Perspective at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His major research interests are comparative populism, Euroscepticism, and comparative political party politics and democracy. He is the author of Populism Proporz Pariah Austria Turns Right (2002) and is co-author of Understanding Populist Organization (2016) and co-editor of Political Populism: A Handbook (2017) as well as numerous other publications on Austrian and European politics.

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk is a Ph.D. researcher at University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Law, Social Science and History (DRES), and he is a Sociological and Legal Data on Religions in Europe and Beyond's (EUREL) Turkey correspondent. He is also a Swedish Institute Scholarship holder at Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) for the year of 2018. Öztürk is the co-editor (with Bahar Baser) of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP (IB Tauris, 2017). He has also published articles in such as the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, the Journal of Critical Studies on Terrorism, the Journal of Research and Politics on Turkey, and the Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies, and as well as various chapters in edited volumes.

Mario Peucker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University, Melbourne (Australia). His research and publication activities revolve around ethnoreligious exclusion/inclusion and manifestations of active citizenship in diverse societies, ranging from Muslim community activism to the political work of the far right.

Heather Silber Mohamed is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clark University. She is the author of The New Americans?: Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino Identity (2017, University Press of Kansas).

Semiha Sözeri is a Ph.D. researcher at the Department for Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam, and a junior member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies. Her Ph.D. project investigates the role of mosque education in the social integration and identity development of children from Turkish background in the Netherlands. She is a recipient of the 2017 Emerging Scholar Award from the Religion in Society Research Network. Her previous publications have appeared in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education and International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy (Routledge, 2017). Her current research interests include immigrant integration, sociology of education, ethnic and religious identity formation, and Turkish diaspora in Europe.

Alicia Steinmetz is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Ccience at Yale University and a Fox International Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

CONTRIBUTORS OF FEATURED REVIEW EXCHANGE

Damon T. Berry is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Blood & Faith: White Nationalism in American Christianity (Syracuse University Press, 2017) and has published in Security Journal and The Journal of Hate Studies.

George Hawley is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama. His books include Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Columbia, 2017), Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism (Kansas, 2016), and Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America's Christian Denominations (Lexington, 2017).

CONTRIBUTORS OF BOOK REVIEWS

Daniel Bennett is Assistant Professor of Political Science at John Brown University. He is the author of Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement (University Press of Kansas, 2017).

Davis Brown is a Senior Research Associate at the Association of Religion and Data Archives and Nonresident Fellow at the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion. He is co-Principal Investigator of the Religious Characteristics of States data project (RCS), with Patrick James. Dr. Brown researches and publishes in the areas of war ethics and state-level religion.

Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. His most recent work is Arguing Islam after the Revival of Arab Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Michele Dillon, Ph.D., is Class of 1944 Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Most of her research is on religion and social change, with a particular focus on contemporary Catholicism. Her latest book is Postsecular Catholicism: Relevance and Renewal (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Ramazan Kilinç is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. He is the author of Alien Citizens: State and Religious Minorities in Turkey and France (Cambridge, forthcoming) and co-author of Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision (Cambridge, 2018).

Saskia Schäfer earned her doctorate in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and has held fellowships at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, both at Columbia University in New York, as well as at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. She is currently writing a book about Islam, orthodoxy, and deviance in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Nancy D. Wadsworth is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver and author of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing (University of Virginia Press, 2014) and Faith and Race in American Political Life (University of Virginia Press, 2012).