Contributors of Articles

Zahid Shahab Ahmed is Research Fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizen and Globalization, Deakin University, Australia. He is author of Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC (Routledge, 2016).

Sarah K. Dreier is an NSF and Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Washington. Her comparative research examines the intersection between religion, state power, and human rights in East Africa, the United States, and elsewhere.

Paul A. Djupe teaches Political Science at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He is the editor of the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series at Temple University Press, the coeditor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics & Religion (2020), and the coeditor of The Evangelical Crackup: The Future of the Evangelical–Republican Coalition (2019, Temple UP).

Ekrem Karakoç is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University (SUNY). He is a comparativist with a focus on democratization and public opinion. His most recent work is Inequality after the Transition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Founding Co-Convenor of the Forum on Political Economy & Economics at the University of Washington. He is a faculty affiliate at UW's Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences, Technology & Social Change Group, and African Studies Program; and University of California--Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action. Previously, James was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, a dissertation fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the US Institute of Peace, and a Fulbright Scholar. His research in sub-Saharan Africa and Afghanistan focuses on the determinants of political behavior, the dynamics of electoral fraud, the impact of ICT and digital media on corruption monitoring, and the effects of civil war and insurgency on state building.

Nicholas L. Pyeatt is Associate Professor of Political Science at Penn State—Altoona. His current research focuses gender, context, and representation in American state and national legislatures. His work has been published in journals such as Legislative Studies Quarterly, Representation, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.

Zeki Sarigil (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2007) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). His research interests include ethnicity, inter-ethnic relations, ethnonationalism; civil-military relations; and institutional theory (e.g. institutional change, path dependence, informal institutions). His most recent work is Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam (New York: New York University Press, 2018).

Eric Swank is an Associate Professor of Practice in Social & Cultural Analysis at Arizona State University. With over 55 publications, Swank mostly writes on the ways that stigmatized populations accept and challenge social inequalities. His studies on gender hierarchies and activism can be found in Politics, Groups & Identities, Sex Roles, Social Science Research, and Research in Social Movements, Conflict, & Change.

Md Ziaul Haque Sheikh is Assistant Professor of Islamic history and Culture at the Jagannath University, Dhaka. He is now a Ph.D. Research Fellow of International Relations at the South Asian University, New Delhi.

Miguel Vatter is professor of political science in the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide. His areas of research and writing are republicanism, biopolitics, and political theology. His most recent book is The Republic of the Living. Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (Fordham UP, 2014).

Angelia R. Wilson is a Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. Her books include Why Europe is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be) (SUNY 2013), Below the Belt (Continuum, 2000), and anthologies Situating Intersectionality: Politics, Policy, and Power (Palgrave, 2013). She is the President of the UK Political Studies Association.

Stephen J. Winkler is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He studies the formal and informal institutions that shape public opinion, political behavior, and social exclusion.

Alixandra B. Yanus is Associate Professor of Political Science at High Point University. Her current research focuses on how political and institutional contexts affect the education, engagement, and representation of women in American politics. Her work has been published in journals such as PS: Political Science and Politics, Politics & Gender, Politics, Groups & Identities, and Social Science Quarterly.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Evan Berry is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University. He is the author of Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism (UC Press, 2015) and serves as the President Elect of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.

Michael Driessen is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University, Rome. He has published the book Religion and Democratization (Oxford UP, 2014), and his articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Constellations, Democratization and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Lucas Johnston is Associate Professor of Religion and Environment and Co-Director of the Environmental Program at Wake Forest University, and Co-Editor of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.

Stephen LeDrew is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is the author of The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement.

After completing his doctoral dissertation on the Baptists and Orthodox in the Soviet Union, Jerry G. Pankhurst (emeritus professor of Sociology and of Russian and Central Eurasian Studies, Wittenberg University) taught about and researched issues of Soviet and post-Soviet society and culture. His current research examines the complex politics of Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Russia.

Allyson Shortle is Associate Professor of Political Science, Latinx Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she leads the Community Engagement and Experiments Laboratory. Her work has appeared in Political Behavior, American Politics Research, Politics and Religion, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Jodok Troy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a research fellow at Georgetown University, and an affiliate at the Swedish National Defence College.