Contributors of Articles

Hyun Jin Choi (Ph.D., Michigan State University 2012) is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Kyunghee University, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include political violence, ethnic conflict, sub-Saharan Africa, and computational/statistical methods.

Emily Cury is a Visiting Lecturer in International Affairs at Northeastern University and a Carnegie Visiting Scholar at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS). Her research focuses on questions of ethnic minority integration and diaspora communities in Western democracies.

Roger Finke is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies, and International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University and is Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theARDA.com).

Netanel Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at The Open University of Israel.

Jonathan Fox (Ph.D. 1997 University of Maryland) is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar Ilan University. He writes on multiple aspects of religion and politics including government religion policy, religious minorities, and religious conflict. His recent books include Political Secularism, Religion, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Unfree Exercise of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Mehmet Gurses is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, and Islamist parties in the Middle East. His work has appeared in such journals as International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Defense and Peace Economics, International Studies Perspectives, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Political Research Quarterly.

Liang Jiang is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include comparative political behavior, election campaign, political integration of migrants, and religion and politics.

Steven Kettell is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are centred on the politics of secularism, non-religion and the role of religion in the public sphere.

Dongsuk Kim (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011) is an Assistant Professor at Korea National Diplomatic Academy, Seoul, South Korea. His research interests cover civil war, ethnic conflict, African politics, and transitional justice.

Robert R. Martin (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2013) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University. His research focuses on issues of trust and religious freedom.

Nicolas Rost is an aid worker. He currently works for the United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund in New York, and has previously worked for the UN in Geneva, the Central African Republic, the Somalia operation, and in Jerusalem. His research interests include conflict resolution and human rights, and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Konstanz, Germany. His work has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and others.

Yida Zhai is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include political psychology, civic engagement, and East Asian comparative politics. His work has been published in Issues & Studies, International Political Science Review, Pacific Review, and other Chinese and Japanese journals.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Andrew Bramsen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bethel University where he chairs the general education committee and leads the Humanities teaching team. He has published articles in Politics and Religion and Public Discourse.

Steven Brown is a Professor of Political Science at Auburn University. He is the author of Trumping Religion: The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts (University of Alabama Press, 2005) and John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court: Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest (University of Alabama Press, 2012). He has also written several articles on church and state issues and American legal history.

Kimberly H. Conger is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of The Christian Right in State Politics (Palgrave, 2009) and has published extensively on religion and politics in the United States.

Jesse Covington is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. His teaching and research interests focus on the intersections of religion and politics in both law and political theory.

James Hitchcock is a Professor of History Emeritus at St. Louis University. He is the author of several books, including The History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium (Ignatius, 2013) and The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, 2 volumes (Princeton, 2004).

Andrew R. Murphy is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His most recent publications are Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration: The Political Thought of William Penn (Oxford, 2016), and (with David S. Gutterman) Political Religion and Religious Politics: Navigating Identities in the United States (Routledge, 2015).

Joseph Williams is an Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University, and he is the author of Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Contributor of Featured Review Essay

Nancy D. Wadsworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Denver. She is the author of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014) and co-editor, with Robin Dale Jacobson, of Faith and Race in American Political Life (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2012).