Contributors of Articles
Ryan Burge is an instructor of political science at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL. He has published research on religion and political tolerance and the emergent church movement.
Ahsan I. Butt is an Assistant professor at the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University. His research mainly focuses on issues of nationalism, international security, and international relations theory, and has been published in International Organization and Conflict, Security, and Development. He is currently writing a book on separatist war.
Filippo Dionigi is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Middle East Centre). Currently, he is researching the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Arab statehood. He is the author of Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society (Palgrave: 2014) and articles on religion and international relations with a special focus on the Middle East.
M. Steven Fish is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Sarah Allen Gershon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2008. Dr. Gershon's research interests include Media and Politics, Gender Politics, and Race and Ethnicity. Her research has been published in several academic journals, including Political Communication; Political Research Quarterly; Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; Social Science Quarterly; and Journal of Politics.
Nicholas Higgins obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Regent University. His dissertation centered upon Hobbes's use of religious rhetoric within the Leviathan. His previous publications primarily examine the influence of religious thought on political thinkers as well as the impact of contemporary religious identity on political action.
Danielle N. Lussier is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College. Her book Constraining Elites in Russia and Indonesia: Political Participation and Regime Survival is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Adrian D. Pantoja is Senior Analyst for Latino Decisions and Professor of Political Studies and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College. His academic research is published in over three-dozen journals and edited volumes. He has delivered over one hundred presentations on Latino politics at academic conferences and public forums. Professor Pantoja frequently writes political blogs and policy reports and provides expert political commentaries for various newspapers, newsmagazines, television, and radio programs.
Lasse Lykke Rørbæk is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He studies institutional arrangements in developing countries with a specific focus on ethnic conflict and state repression.
Ed Stetzer is executive director of LifeWay research and the senior fellow of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He is a widely-published author in religion, culture, and trends.
Ingrid Storm is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Her research interest are in religious change, value change, religious and ethnic identities and attitudes to minorities.
Benjamin Taylor is an assistant professor of political science at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. He researches political behavior and attitudes. His work has been published in Political Communication, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, Politics & Religion, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Research.
Contributors of Book Reviews
Amélie Barras is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Her research considers the relationship between politics, religion, gender and law in and beyond Canada. She is the author of Refashioning Secularisms in France and Turkey: The Case of the Headscarf Ban (Routledge, 2014).
Harold F. Bass is professor of political science at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. His undergraduate degree is from Baylor University and his graduate degrees are from Vanderbilt University. His research interests and scholarly publications address presidential leadership, political parties, Southern politics, and politics and religion.
Jocelyne Cesari holds the chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK, is Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs and directs the Harvard interfaculty program “Islam in the West.” Her most recent books are The Islamic Awakening: Religion, Democracy and Modernity (2014, Cambridge University Press) and Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Islam in Western Liberal Democracies (2013).
Ozgur Koca is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate Institute and Claremont School of Theology. His studies focus on Islamic Philosophy-Theology-Spirituality, Science and Religion Discussion, Environmental Ethics, Interreligious Discourse, and Contemporary Islamic Movements and Ideologies.
Michael Minkenberg is Professor of Comparative Politics at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. From 2007 to 2010, he held the Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at NYU. Minkenberg has received his M.A. in American Government from Georgetown University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg in 1989. Before coming to Viadrina in 1998, he taught comparative politics at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, Cornell University, and Columbia University. Minkenberg's research interests include the radical right in liberal democracies, and the relationship between religion and politics in Western societies. Among his many publications are The Radical Right in Europe: An Overview (2008), Power and Architecture (editor, 2014) and Transforming the Transformation? The East European Radical Right in the Political Process (editor, 2015).
Tibor Purger is an adjunct lecturer in Political Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His current research interests include ethnic minorities and their impact on interstate relations, democratic backsliding, the European refugee crisis, and the Balkans. Previously, he had worked at the Brookings Institution and as White House correspondent for Central European media.
Mary C. Segers is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. She has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, and ethical issues and public policy.
Contributors to Featured Review Exchange
Madawi Al-Rasheed is a social anthropologist specializing in the Middle East, with special focus on Saudi Arabia. She is currently visiting professor at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.
Amina Jamal is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on on the complex interrelationship of women, gender, Islam and modernity. She is the author of Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan: Vanguard of a New Modernity? (SUP 2013). Dr. Jamal studies women, gender, Islam, and modernities in South Asia and Canada from a poststructuralist and transnational Muslim feminist location. She has published on the politics of Muslim women's representation, gendered Islamism and the ongoing discursive struggle of feminism and Islamism.
