Contributors of Articles

Constantine Boussalis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include environmental politics, political communication, and computational social science.

Brittany H. Bramlett is a Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Ryan P. Burge is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. He is also the co-founder and frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a website to make empirical work about American religion accessible to the general public.

Travis Coan is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Politics at the University of Exeter. He is Co-director of the Exeter Q-Step Centre and is a member of the Centre for Elections, Media, and Participation (CEMaP) and the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI). His core research examines questions in the areas of environmental and political communication.

Clayton Fordahl is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Memphis. His research concerns the intersection of religion, culture, and politics; his first book, The Ultimate Sacrifice, was published by Routledge in April 2020.

Mirya Holman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. She is the author of Women in Politics in the American City (Temple University Press). Her work examines questions of religion and politics, gender and politics, and political behavior.

Qing Lai received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan at the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. His research concentrates on Chinese Muslims, development, demography, and social stratification. He has published peer-reviewed articles on Social Science Research, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Chinese Sociological Review, Chinese Journal of Sociology, Research in the Sociology of Work, Natural Hazards, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Berglind Hólm Ragnarsdóttir is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Akureyri. She has a PhD in Sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is in the areas of gender, family, work, inequality, and social policy.

Jesse Russell is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern, where he teaches Renaissance and world literature. Jesse has published in a number of academic journals such as Literature and Theology, Political Theology, Religion and the Arts, and Texas Studies in Language and Literature. He enjoys spending time with his family and long distance running in his free time.

Elina Schleutker has a PhD in political science. She currently teaches and works at University of Freiburg (Germany). Her research focuses on religion, authoritarianism, and comparative politics.

Lana Shehadeh is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Florida International University. Her research concentrates on issues of identity, specifically along sectarian lines, political economy, and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work uses quantitative methods to measure identity, intolerance, and security issues during times of economic hardship specifically within the context of the Middle East. Prior to joining the PhD program, she worked for BBC Media Action on research pertaining to accountability, identity, and democratization in the Middle East. She holds an MA in International Development Economics from American University.

Chi Zhang holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds. She research interests lie in the field of political philosophy and religion. In particular, she is interested in how counter-terrorism policies reflect the governments’ struggle to balance state security and civil liberty. She has published in Terrorism and Political Violence and Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. Until recently she was a visiting scholar at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Gregorio Bettiza is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the role of ideas and identities in world politics, with a particular emphasis on religion and civilizational identities. Gregorio's most recent book is Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Kate Dannies is historian of the Modern Middle East and Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

Felipe A. Filomeno is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). His research investigates human development in Latin America and the Latin American diaspora in the United States. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University.

Courtney Freer is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science Middle East Centre. Her book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies, published by Oxford University Press in 2018, examines the sociopolitical role played by Muslim Brotherhood groups in Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.