Contributors of articles

Eduard J. Bomhoff is a Professor of Economics at Monash University, Sunway Campus in Kuala Lumpur. Bomhoff has also written seven books and hundreds of articles for the general and business press. His current research interest is economic growth and development, especially in the Islamic world. He is the principal investigator in Malaysia for the World Values Survey.

Lan T. Chu is an Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, focuses on the political role of religious institutions in non-democratic societies, faith diplomacy, and interreligious dialogue. Her work has been published in Democratization, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, CPD Perspectives on Faith Diplomacy, East European Politics and Societies; she also has a chapter on Vietnamese Church-State relations in Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia.

Amanda Friesen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. She has published in Political Behavior, the Journal for Women, Politics & Policy, Social Science Quarterly, and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London—Biological Sciences. She also has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

William L. Gillespie is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kennesaw State University. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Georgia.

Willie Gin is a Research Fellow with the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney.

Elizabeth Ellen Gordon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kennesaw State University. She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mary Man-Li Gu is a PhD candidate at Monash University. Her research interests include modernization, democratization, public opinions and cultural values in comparative perspective. She can be contacted at mlgu2@student.monash.edu and mary_gml@yahoo.com

Bradley D. Hays is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Union College. He received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland. He has published on American constitutional politics and political development.

Kyle C. Kopko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College. He received his Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University. He has published on judicial behavior, social identities, and American politics.

Susan Liebell teaches Political Theory and Public Law at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia (sliebell@sju.edu). She is currently writing a book, Activating Liberal Rights: Intelligent Design, Evolution, and Political Identity.

Stephen T. Mockabee is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include electoral behavior, public opinion, survey research methodology, and religion and politics.

Anand Edward Sokhey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in American politics, and his work examines the role that social influence plays in voting behavior, political participation, and opinion formation.

Michael W. Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published work related to questions of political behavior and political communication in several journals and book chapters. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Dirksen Congressional Center, was the project director on the 2006 Congressional Election Study conducted by the Center on Congress at Indiana University, and was the 2012 Hazel R. McClymont Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Contributors of book reviews

Iqbal Akhtar is a Doctoral Postgraduate at the University of Edinburgh's New College School of Divinity. His work focuses on religious memory and identity of the Khōjā in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. His most recent article, published in PS: Political Science and Politics, is entitled “Race and Religion in the Political Problematization of the American Muslim.”

Ross Astoria is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Law at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. He teaches courses in Legal Studies, Policy, and Political Theory. His primary research is in the area of Religion and Law. He holds a JD and a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ozlem Madi-Sisman is a Doctoral Candidate at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, specializing in the (in)compatibility of Islam and Capitalism with a particular reference to the Turkish case. She has studied at Harvard University as a visiting scholar and taught in the Political Science Department at Furman University (courses on Politics of the Middle East and Politics of Developing Nations).

Gregory S. McElwain is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at The College of Idaho. His primary research and teaching interests are in environmental ethics in philosophy and religious studies.

Melissa Matthes is Associate Professor of Humanities at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Her current research explores the theo-political significance of Protestant sermons during American political crises beginning with Pearl Harbor including the assassinations of President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King as well as 9/11. Her previous work includes The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics: Readings in Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau.

Richard J. Meagher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Randolph-Macon College, where he was recently named Director of Social Entrepreneurship. His research interests include the alliance between economic and social conservatives within the Republican Party, as well as a separate project on atheism and politics.

Laura R. Olson is Professor of Political Science at Clemson University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her research focuses on contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics, and her published work includes nine books and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews.

Yusuf Sarfati is Assistant Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University, where he has taught courses on the comparative politics of the Middle East since 2009. He is also the Director of Middle Eastern and South Asian minor program at ISU.

Kevin Schultz is an Assistant Professor of History and Catholics Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is the author of Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Forced Postwar America to Live Up to its Protestant Promise as well as articles in the Journal of American History, Labor History, and American Quarterly. His college-level textbook on American history, HIST is now in its second edition. He co-edits a blog about teaching American history at http://teachingunitedstateshistory.blogspot.com/

David Sehat is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University and author of The Myth of American Religious Freedom.

Christopher Soper is the Frank R. Seaver Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He is the co-author of The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Western Democracies; Faith, Hope, and Jobs: Welfare to Work in Los Angeles, and Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany. He is currently working on a book on Taiwanese democracy.

Peter Weigel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington College in Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale after an M.Phil. in logic and metaphysics from St. Andrews and a B.A. from Marquette. He teaches and writes in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, medieval philosophy, Christianity and Catholicism, and existentialism.