Contributors of Articles
Daniel Albertsen is a masters’ student at the Department of Sociology and Political Science (ISS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Edwin Bacon is, from April 2018, Reader in International Politics at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, having previously been a member of faculty at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of 7 books on Russian and Soviet affairs—the latest being Inside Russian Politics (London: Biteback, 2017)—and many articles in refereed journals on Russian politics, political pedagogy, narrative in politics, and political forecasting.
Antoine Bilodeau is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. His research interests focus on immigrant integration and attitudes toward ethnocultural and religious diversity.
Mark Brockway investigates how individual's political and social identities impact participation in party politics as well as the impact of that participation on the structure of political parties. Specifically, his research focuses on the role of party activists and the impact of issue constraint and party issue adoption with particular attention to the influence of rising American secularism.
Indra de Soysa is Professor of Political Science at ISS and has published widely in political economy, conflict studies, and development. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Academy.
Eva-Maria Euchner is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
Ailsa Henderson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She conducts research on comparative sub-state political behaviour and political culture.
Kathleen Marchetti is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Her research interests include gender and politics, interest groups, political representation and methodology.
Eric L. McDaniel is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kenneth M. Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
David O'Connell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. He is the author of God Wills It: Presidents and the Political Use of Religion (Routledge, 2014).
Caroline Preidel is a market researcher at Coliquio, Germany.
Luc Turgeon is an associate professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His current research focuses on attitudes toward immigration and ethnocultural diversity.
Stephen White is assistant professor of political science at Carleton University. His research focuses on Canadian and comparative public opinion and political behaviour, and immigrant political incorporation.
Contributors of Featured Book Review
Melissa Deckman is the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs at Washington College. Her areas of specialty include religion, gender and political movements in American politics. The author or co-author of more than a dozen scholarly articles and five books, her latest book is Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Activists, and the Changing Face of the American Right (New York University, 2016). Her first book, School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics (Georgetown, 2004), won the American Political Science Association's Hubert Morken Award for the best work on religion and politics.
Paul A. Djupe, Emeritus Editor of Politics and Religion, teaches Political Science at Denison University. He is the co-editor of The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (Temple, 2018) and the co-author of The Political Influence of Churches (Cambridge, 2009).
Lyman A. Kellstedt is a Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Wheaton College (IL). He is the author or co-author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books. The latter include: Religion and the Culture Wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), The Bully Pulpit (Kansas, 1997), and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (Oxford, 2009).
David C. Leege is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Besides teaching, Leege spent his professional life as a research initiator. At the National Science Foundation, he midwifed the American National Election Studies and later chaired its Board of Overseers. Principal co-authorships are: Political Research (Basic Books, 1974); The Politics of Cultural Differences (Princeton, 2002); and the Report Series: Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life (Notre Dame, 1989). In retirement, he and Kenneth Wald established Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics, with 25 titles published.
Contributors of Book Reviews
Corwin E. Smidt serves as a Research Fellow of the Henry Institute at Calvin College. He was recognized by the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association in 2014 for his service and contributions to its field of study, and in 2015 he served as the President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Jacob R. Neiheisel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He studies religion and politics, election administration, political parties, and political communication. His work has recently appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly.
Mary Elaine Hegland is Professor of anthropology at Santa Clara University and author of Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village (Stanford, 2013), based on 1978–1979 field research in Iran and return trips after 2003. Her publications focus on how villagers applied local political culture to revolution and on women, religion, politics, revolution, and change in Iran and Pakistan.
Gary Scott Smith is a professor of History at Grove City College. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (Oxford, 2006) and Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents (Oxford, 2015).
Ben Stanley is Assistant Professor in the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. A political scientist, he received a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Essex and has worked at the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava, the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom (as Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow). His primary area of research interest is the politics of populism in Central and Eastern Europe, incorporating analysis of party ideological appeals and voter behavior. His current research activities include an experimental analysis of the links between conspiracy theory mentality and populism in Poland, measurement of populist attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe, and a monograph on Polish populism.
