Farida Jalalzai is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her research focuses on the representation and political behavior of women and minorities in politics and the role of gender in the political arena. Her articles have been published in Women and Politics, Politics & Gender, The Journal of Women, and (forthcoming) in International Political Science Review. In addition to a book length manuscript on women national leaders worldwide, she is currently working on various articles dealing with Muslims and political behavior since September 11.

Matt A. Barreto is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, and Director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER). His research focuses on the political participation and attitudes of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the United States and has been published in The American Political Science Review, and other peer-reviewed journals. He is principal investigator of the 2007–2008 Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS).

Dino N. Bozonelos is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the marginalization of Muslim-Americans, and the role that discrimination, group identity, and religiosity play in the political incorporation of Muslims in America. He is also one of the co-principal investigators of the 2007–2008 Muslim-American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS).

Shane Martin is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Dublin City University, and Co-Convener of the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Parliaments. His research focuses on representation and legislative institutions. In addition to recent research on the representation of Muslims in British politics, he is also completing a book-length manuscript on the relationship between electoral systems and legislator behavior.

Eileen Braman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She has written articles that have appeared in The American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics. Her book, Law, Politics and Perception: How policy preferences influence legal reasoning, is scheduled to be published in 2009.

Abdulkader H. Sinno is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University. He is author of Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond and editor of Muslims in Western Politics.

James M. Penning is a Professor of Political Science at Calvin College and Director of the Calvin College Center for Social Research. He has authored or co-authored a variety of articles and books in the area of religion and politics. He is co-author (with Corwin E. Smidt) of Evangelicalism: The next generation, co-author (with Corwin Smidt and Don Luidens) of Divided by a common heritage: The Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America at the beginning of the new millennium, and co-author (with Corwin E. Smidt, Kevin R. den Dulk, Stephen V. Monsma, and Douglas L. Koopman) of Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America.

Lyman A. Kellstedt is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wheaton College. His publications include Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics, Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front, and The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy.

Carin Robinson recently earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at Georgetown University. She is the co-author of Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics and has contributed to numerous edited volumes on the topic of religion and politics. Her dissertation focuses on the political coalition between evangelical Protestants and traditional Catholics in the United States.

Ed Waggoner a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. He works in the areas of systematic theology, religion and militarization, and religion and politics.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author, most recently, of Sovereignty: God, State, and Self: The Gifford Lectures.

John A. Coleman, S. J., is an Associate Pastor at Saint Ignatius Church, San Francisco. He was the Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University from 1997 to 2009. Among his most recent books are Globalization and Catholic Social Thought, edited with William Ryan and Christian Political Ethics.

Daniel A. Bell is a Professor of Political Philosophy, Tsinghua University (Beijing). His publications include China's New Confucianism, Beyond Liberal Democracy, East Meets West as well as the edited volume Confucian Political Ethics.

Alexander Agadjanian holds a Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences and is a Professor at the Center for the Study of Religion, Russian State University of the Humanities, and faculty associate, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University. He specializes in the sociology and anthropology of religion in Eastern Europe.

Bruce B. Lawrence is a Marcus Family Professor of Humanities at Duke University, and Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. He is the author of The Qur'an: A Biography and co-editor, with Aisha Karim, of On Violence: A Reader.

John David Rausch, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Political Science at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. He is co-editor of The Test of Time: Coping with Legislative Term Limits. His research has appeared in Politics & Policy, Oklahoma Politics, Women & Politics, Comparative State Politics, and National Civic Review, as well as in numerous edited collections.

Alison Denton Jones is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research interests lie in the areas of religion, culture, and organizations. She is completing a dissertation on the Buddhist involvement of lay people in urban China today. She has presented and convened panels at several conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Ann Davies is the Edwin F. Wilde, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College/Vice President for Academic Affairs at Beloit College. Her most recent research has focused on secularism and religion in U.S. public schools.

Matthew Stibbe is a Reader in History at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely on twentieth-century Germany and the era of the two world wars more generally. His most recent work is British Civilian Internees in Germany. The Ruhleben Camp, 1914–18. He is also currently co-editing, with Kevin McDermott, a collection of essays on Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe, 1944 to 1953.

Jeff Walz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University Wisconsin. His research has appeared in the American Review of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and the Southeastern Political Review. He is co-author (with Steven R. Montreal) of Lutheran Pastors and Politics: Issues in the Public Square.