Contributors of Articles

Valery Dzutsati is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Washington, DC–based think tank Jamestown Foundation. His research appears in Caucasus Survey, Nationalities Papers, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Social Science Quarterly.

Khasan Dzutsev is Professor and Dean of the Department of Sociology of Political and Social Processes of the K.L. Khetagurov North-Ossetian State University, Director of the North Ossetian Centre of Social Research, and the Presidium Member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Dzutsev has over 320 publications on subjects related to ethnic sociology, interethnic relations, sociology of conflict, and Caucasus studies, including twenty-six monographs.

Moshe Hellinger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University. His main interests are political philosophy and models of democracy within the Jewish tradition, with a focus on religious-Zionism and the Israeli society.

Isaac Hershkowitz is a lecturer in the Jewish Philosophy Department, Bar-Ilan University. His main interests are modern rabbinic thought, with a focus on religious responses to the Holocaust and religious-Zionism.

Michael Jerryson is associate professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.

Julia Leininger (University of Heidelberg) is Head of the Department Governance, Statehood and Security at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik in Bonn, Germany. She teaches at the Universities of Konstanz and Duisburg-Essen.

Joshua L. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas. His research interests are policy diffusion, political geography and state and local policy. His most recent work, with Andrew Dowdle, Scott Limbocker, Patrick A. Stewart, and Karen Sebold, is The Political Geography of Campaign Finance: Contribution Patterns in Presidential Elections, 2004–2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He has also authored several articles on policy diffusion.

Ryan T. O'Leary studied philosophical theology and religion and culture at the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D. in 2012. He has presented widely on theology, religion and conflict, and religion and culture. Dr. O'Leary lectures at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point and the University of Wisconsin Colleges.

Elina Schleutker received her doctorate in political science from the Heidelberg University. She is particularly interested in the comparative study of the regulation of religion.

David Siroky is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His research appears in Caucasus Survey, Civil Wars, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Sociology, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, European Political Science Review, International Organization, Nationalities Papers, Political Analysis, Politics and Religion, Polity, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Security Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Statistics Surveys, Swiss Political Science Review, and elsewhere. He has received grants as PI and co-PI from the United States Department of State and the National Science Foundation.

Bernard Susser is Emeritus Professor (formerly Senator Norman Paterson Professor of Politics) in the Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University. His main interests are political philosophy and comparative politics—especially Israeli politics.

Brendan Toner is an assistant professor of political science at Arkansas Tech University where he currently teaches classes in the fields of American Politics, Public Administration, and Public Law. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Southern Illinois University and has written previously on the vice presidency and congressional leadership.

Matthew J. Walton is the Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Finbarr Curtis is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University and the author of The Production of American Religious Freedom (New York University Press, 2016).

Michael D. Driessen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University, Rome. He has published Religion and Democratization: Framing Religious and Political Identities in Muslim and Catholic Societies (Oxford UP, 2014), along with recent articles in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Laura Dudley Jenkins, Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, is author of Identity and Identification in India and co-editor of Affirmative Action Matters. Her research focuses on social justice policies in culturally diverse democracies, especially India, but also South Africa, Indonesia and the United States.

John Kitch is a PhD candidate at Louisiana State University studying Political Theory and American Politics.

Stephen T. Mockabee is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include elections, public opinion, survey research methodology, and religion and politics. His work has appeared in a variety of professional journals such as Political Research Quarterly, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Politics and Religion, as well as in numerous edited volumes.

Stephen C. Nemeth is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2010. His primary interests are in the organizational and spatial attributes of terrorist violence. He has authored or co-authored several articles on terrorism and conflict management.

Darren Walhof is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches courses in political theory and constitutional law. His articles on democratic theory, hermeneutics, and religion have appeared in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Contemporary Political Theory, among other places.

Contributors to Featured Book Review

Rafiq Dossani is a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation, where he directs its Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and civil law, in Indonesia and in Western Europe. His European States and their Muslim Citizens appeared from Cambridge in 2013, and On British Islam from Princeton in 2016.