John W. Ayers is a Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, and Lecturer in the Department of Biology, University of San Diego. Ayers' study of American Muslims' voting preferences was published in The Review of Religious Research in 2007.

Amy L. Cavender, CSC, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Mary's College, Indiana. She specializes in political theory, concentrating on American religious pluralism and the relationship between religion and liberalism. Her reviews have appeared in The Review of Politics and The Journal of Church and State. During 2003 and 2004, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Philosophy Centre of Jinja in Jinja, Uganda.

AlexandreChristoyannpoulos is currently completing his Ph.D. on Christian anarchist theory at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, where he has also been employed as a Seasonal Teacher for the past three years. His research interests lie in the area of religion and political philosophy, broadly defined. He has presented and convened workshops at several national and international conferences, and has published an article (co-authored with Dr Joseph Milne) in The Heythrop Journal in November 2007 and another in Anarchist Studies in spring 2008.

Sue E. S. Crawford is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Creighton University. Her research focuses on the interplay of institutions, professions, and public policy in the United States. She is co-editor of Christian Clergy in American Politics and co-author of Women with a Mission: Religion, Gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy.

Amy L. Cavender, CSC, is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's College. She specializes in political theory, with a concentration in religion and politics. She has taught at Indiana University South Bend and at Holy Cross College. Prior to joining the faculty at Saint Mary's, she spent three semesters at the Queen of Apostles Philosophy Centre Jinja in Jinja, Uganda, where she taught courses in social science and philosophy.

PaulDjupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University. Working primarily in religion and American political behavior, he is co-author (with Christopher P. Gilbert, David A. M. Peterson, and Timothy R. Johnson) of Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States, co-author (with Christopher P. Gilbert) of The Prophetic Pulpit: Clergy, Churches, and Communities in American Politics, and co-editor (with Laura R. Olson) of Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture War. His work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, among other journals.

GeorgeEhrhardt is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on state alliances, more particularly the ways in which Japan and South Korea use their alliances with the United States. His current research on the Soka Gakkai is being funded by a Fulbright Hays award from the U.S. Department of Education.

Eldon J. Eisenach is a Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Tulsa. He has written two books on English liberalism (Two Worlds of Liberalism: Religion and Politics in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill and Narrative Power and Liberal Truth: Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill); two books on American Political Thought (The Lost Promise of Progressivism and The Next Religious Establishment: National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America); and numerous chapters and articles. He serves on editorial boards for Studies in American Political Development and for History of Political Thought.

Ron E. Hassner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research revolves around symbolic and emotive aspects of international security with particular attention to religious violence, Middle Eastern politics, and territorial disputes. In 2007–2008, he is a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.

Matthew S. Hedstrom is a 2007–2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and was a Lilly Fellow in Humanities and American Studies at Valparaiso University from 2005–2007. His Ph.D. is in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently completing a book on liberal religion and book culture in the mid-twentieth-century US, and has published articles on print culture and liberalism in Cross Currents and the forthcoming Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America, eds. Paul S. Boyer and Charles L. Cohen.

C. RichardHofstetter is a Professor of Political Science and Public Health, San Diego State University. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in political science, public health, public policy, and economics journals. He has been associated with $13 million worth of funded research awards. Hofstetter is currently preparing a study on the effects of religious messages on the health and behavior of Korean Americans.

William E. Hudson is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Administration Program at Providence College. He is the author of American Democracy in Peril: Seven Challenges to America's Future and The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the Common Good, and co-editor (with Richard Battistoni) of Experiencing Citizenship: Service-Learning in Political Science. Hudson served as consulting editor for the Politics section of The Encyclopedia of New England. His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Polity, Western Political Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and other journals. Along with Elizabeth Oldmixon, he was a winner of the 2007 Paul J. Weber Award.

Leigh K. Jenco is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Political Theory Project, Brown University. In July 2008, she will take up a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore. Her publications include “Thoreau's Critique of Democracy,” Review of Politics (winner of the 2003 Foundations of Political Theory best paper award); and “‘What Does Heaven Ever Say?’ A Methods-Centered Approach to Cross-Cultural Engagement,” published in the American Political Science Review.

Andrew R. Murphy is one of the book review editors of Politics and Religion. He is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Philosophy at Christ College, the honors College of Valparaiso University. Murphy is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America and editor of The Political Writings of William Penn and Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies. His A Prodigal People: Moral Decline, Divine Punishment, and the Jeremiad from New England to 9–11 is forthcoming.

Jacob R. Neiheisel is a Doctoral Student in Political Science at the University of Wisconson, Madison. He is co-author (with Paul Djupe and Anand Sokhey) of a chapter for Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars, edited by Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olson and (with Paul Djupe and Eric McDaniel) of a chapter for Religion and the Bush Presidency, edited by Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney, and co-author (with Paul Djupe) of an article scheduled to be published in Polity.

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Her research investigates the effect of religion and culture on legislative policy-making. Oldmixon's work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Terrorism and Political Violence. She is also the author of Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Oldmixon was an APSA Congressional Fellow (2001–2002) and winner of the 2007 Paul J. Weber Award, with William Hudson. She currently chairs the APSA Religion and Politics section.

GunesMuratTezcur is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently working on a project that studies political roles of Islam and electoral competition in Indonesia and Turkey. A grant from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) supports the fieldwork. His latest publications include “Constitutionalism, Judiciary, and Democracy in Islamic Societies.”