Vasabjit Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University, where he teaches comparative politics and international relations. His primary research interests are contentious politics and the local political-economies of state-formation in developing. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria.
Rasmus Brandt is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in Islamic Studies and politics in North Africa and Western Asia. His research focuses on how secular discourses shape Islamic movements and its actors in their struggle for political legitimacy.
R. Khari Brown explores how race moderates the relationship between religion and social-political behaviors and attitudes. He uses large survey data sets to examine these relationships. He is a co-investigator of the National Politics Study, a project that survey data on social-political, religious involvement, and political activism.
Kevin R. den Dulk is Associate Provost and Professor of Political Science at Calvin University. He is the co-author of Religion and Politics in America (2019) and The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Six Democracies (2017) and writes widely on the role of religion in shaping democratic citizenship.
Hope Dewell Gentry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Her research primarily focuses on understanding the interaction between politics and religion in Asia, particularly related to nationalism.
Roni Holler, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the Centre for Disability Studies (Israel). His research interests focus on the welfare state and its current and historical development.
Angela Kaiser does ethnographic work on religion and community organizing in urban contexts. Using national survey-based data sets, Dr. Kaiser also explores the relationship between race, religion, and politics.
Anwar Mhajne is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College. She specializes in international relations and comparative politics with a focus on gender, religion, and Middle Eastern politics. Mhajne's research focuses on how Islamic beliefs and institutions in the Middle East structure Muslim women's political understandings, agencies, and opportunities at local, national, and international levels.
Syed Rashid Munir holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University (SUNY) and works as an Assistant Professor at Forman Christian College University, Pakistan.
Emma Rosenberg is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She studies the intersection of religious and nativist identities in Central Europe, with a focus on political communications.
Peter Rudloff, Ph.D. (2007, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. His primary research and teaching interests are related to international and civil conflict.
Amy Erica Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Science as well as a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor at Iowa State University. In the 2020–22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research examines citizenship, democracy, and religion, with a primary focus on Latin America, and especially Brazil.
Prashant Hosur Suhas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at Clarkson University where he teaches international relations. His primary research interest are inter-state and intra-state conflict, international rivalries, and peace processes.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Konstanz, Germany and an incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (starting August 2021). His research interests are on political behavior, intergroup relations, and causal inference.
Abigail Vegter is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, studying American politics and public policy. Her scholarship currently focuses on the relationship between religion and gun ownership, particularly looking at the role of these identities in shaping policy attitudes and the policy process in the United States.
Laura Vinson received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She studies ethnic and religious conflict, peacebuilding, and African politics. She is the author of Religion, Violence, and Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria (2017).
