Contributors of Articles

Erin C. Cassese is Associate Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. She studies gender and public opinion in American politics.

Jeremiah J. Castle is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Central Michigan University. He studies public opinion, including public attitudes on church and state, public opinion among young evangelicals, and how popular films influence public opinion.

Ben Clements is a Lecturer in Politics, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester. His research focuses on the role of religion in British politics and society, in particular the socio-political attitudes of religious groups and public opinion towards religious-secular debates. He is the author of Religion and Public Opinion in Britain: Continuity and Change (Palgrave, 2015) and Surveying Christian Beliefs and Religious Debates in Post-War Britain (Palgrave, 2016). He is a member of the project board for the British Religion in Numbers website and is co-convenor of the UK Political Studies Association's specialist group on Politics and Religion.

Alise Coen is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan. Her research interests include securitization, global governance, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. Her work has recently appeared in The International Journal of Human Rights and Global Change, Peace & Security.

Betsy Cooper is a Research Associate at Public Religion Research Institute, specializing in American politics, public opinion, ideals of citizenship, and sexual orientation.

Dan Cox is the Research Director of Public Religion Research Institute, specializing in survey research, youth politics, and religion. He has coauthored several academic book chapters on topics relating to religious polarization and gay and lesbian issues in the black Church.

Melissa Deckman is the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs at Washington College, where she chairs the Political Science Department. An expert on religion, gender, and American politics, her latest book is Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzles, Grassroots Activists, and the Changing Face of the American Right.

Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair & Director of the Institute for U.S.–China Issues and Professor of International Studies at The University of Oklahoma. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on Chinese and American foreign policy. He is author of The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (Stanford, 2014) and China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy (California, 2004), and co-editor of Chinese Politics (Routledge, 2010) and State and Society in 21st-Century China (Routledge, 2004).

Mirya R. Holman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. She is the author of Women in Politics in the American City (Temple University Press, 2015)

Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of The End of White Christian America, and two other books, and numerous peer-review articles on religion and public policy.

Matthew R. Miles teaches political science at Brigham Young University-Idaho. His research on the attitudinal effects of institutional arrangements has been published in Political Research Quarterly, The International Journal of Press/Politics, and Policy Studies Journal.

Özge Çelik Russell is an assistant professor at Political Science and Public Administration Department, Gazi University, Ankara Turkey. She received her doctorate in Political Science from University of Colorado at Boulder. She specializes in political theory and political participation with a special focus on women's rights, political agency, and voter turnout.

Walter Schmidt recently graduated from Brigham Young University–Idaho with a degree in Political Science. He is currently working in the private sector near Boise, Idaho.

Darren E. Sherkat is Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, his most recent book is Changing Faith: The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans' Shifting Religious Identities.

Sarah Tobin is the Associate Director for Middle East Studies at Brown University. She is an anthropologist specializing in Islam, economic anthropology, and gender in the Middle East. Her work explores transformations in religious and economic life, identity construction, and personal piety at the intersections with gender, Islamic authority and normative Islam, public ethics, and Islamic authenticity. Her current research into these areas is with Syrian refugees in Jordanian camps of Za‘atari, Azraq, and Cyber City.

Bozena Welborne is an Assistant Professor at Smith College and a contributing scholar to the Women and Human Rights in the Middle East Program at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Her research explores the impact of financial globalization on institutional reform and social change in the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on gender.

Aubrey Westfall is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. Her research interests center on minority politics and human rights, focusing on the political experiences of immigrant groups and ethnic and religious minorities.

Matthew Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Southern Methodist University. He works in the areas of elections, public opinion, and religion and politics, and is co-author of Politics and Religion in the United States

Contributors of Book Reviews

John Anderson is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His most recent book is Conservative Christian Politics in Russia and the United States: Dreaming of Christian Nations (Routledge, 2015)

Steven Kettell is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies. His main research interests are centred on the politics of secularism, non-religion and the role of religion in the public sphere. He is a founder and Co-Executive Editor of British Politics.

Philip Manow, professor of Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests include comparative welfare state research, the German political system, and political theory.

Kikue Hamayotsu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Her current research interests include religious freedom and democracy, religious movements and political parties, and identity politics and religious conflict in Muslim-majority states in Southeast Asia. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Intolerant Islam: Democratization, Religion and Conflict in Southeast Asia.

Contributors to Featured Book Review

Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University and was the founding president of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars.

Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right and Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade.