Contributors of Articles

R. Khari Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University and an adjunct research scientist at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests primarily involve the intersection between race, religion, and social activism. As a research scientist at ISR, he works on the National Politics Study.

Ronald E. Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. His research primarily looks at the intersection of race and politics. Over the past thirty years, he played an instrumental role in securing funding for the largest Black politics surveys in the nation, including the 1984 and 1988 National Black Election Studies and the 1993 National Black Politics Studies. In 2004, he was part of research team that secured funding for the National Politics Study.

April K. Clark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Clark is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Governmental Studies and specializes in the development of political attitudes and behavior with a particular focus on age, period, and cohort differences. She has published on a number of topics including social capital, political tolerance, interpersonal trust, and environmental politics. Dr. Clark's research has also been published in a variety of academic journals, including Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Politics and Gender.

Marie Eisenstein is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Northwest. Her work has focused Dr. Eisenstein focuses extensively on the role of political tolerance and democratic values in a free society and how religion intersects, or not, with those values. She also uses age, period, and cohort analysis for both political tolerance and interpersonal trust research. Dr. Eisenstein's research has been published in a variety of journals including Political Behavior and Social Science Research.

Jocelyn Evans is Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds and co-investigator on the Economic and Social Research Council's 2010, 2015, and 2017 Northern Ireland General Election studies.

Mirya R. Holman is an Associate Professor of political science at Tulane University. Her book, Women and Politics in the American City (Temple University Press) is a comprehensive evaluation of the role of gender in local policy making in the United States. She conducts research and teaches on women and politics, religion and politics, urban politics, and environmental politics.

Angela Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her research interests include the connections between race, religion, and politics, cross-cultural relationship building, and social action activities of marginalized populations.

Lara Rusch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and is current director of the Urban and Regional Studies Program. Her research interests center on democratic responses to issues of racial and economic inequality, including community organizing and deliberative politics.

Kristin Shockley is an Instructor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. She conducts research and teaches on religion and politics, political theory, international relations, and comparative politics.

Lihi Ben Shitrit is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at University of Georgia, Athens.

Jonathan Tonge is Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool and Principal Investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council's 2010, 2015, and 2017 Northern Ireland General Election studies.

Borjan Zic recently completed his doctoral dissertation in Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and received his Ph.D. in May of 2017. His research focuses on changes in nationalist ideology and rhetoric during armed conflict and the relationship between wartime experiences and religious behavior and attitudes.

Contributors of Featured Review Essay

George Soroka is Lecturer on Government and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an A.M. in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard, along with an M.A. in Liturgical Studies from Drew University. His main research interests focus on European identity politics (especially contested interpretations of national history), Orthodox Christianity in post-Soviet politics, and comparative democratization.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Andre P. Audette is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Monmouth College. His research focuses on political behavior, identity politics, and political inequality, especially among religious groups and racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.

Jeremy Menchik is an Assistant Professor in the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His first book, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2017 International Studies Association award for the best book on religion and international relations.

Barak Mendelsohn is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College and a Senior Fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). He is the author of The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Brent F. Nelsen is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His teaching and scholarship focus on Europe and the European Union. Since 2001 he has worked primarily with colleague James L. Guth on religion and politics in Europe. They recently published Religion and the Struggle for European Union: Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration (Georgetown University Press). He has also teamed up with Alexander Stubb to publish a textbook on the EU called The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration (Lynne Rienner), now in its fourth edition.

Richard Alan Ryerson received his Ph.D. in early American history from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. He was Associate Editor of The Papers of William Penn, from 1979 to 1983, and editor in chief of The Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, from 1983 to 2001. Ryserson served as historian of The David Library of the American Revolution from 2002 to 2008 and is now an independent scholar. He is the author of The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765–1776 (1978), and John Adams's Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many (2016).