Contributors of articles
Birol Baskan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. At time of writing this paper he was at Qatar University. He studies state-religion relations, and authoritarianism and democracy in the Middle East.
Cyrus Ali Contractor is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, and is currently completing his dissertation examining the political dispositions of Shi‘a Muslims in the United States. Completion is expected in the spring of 2011. His other areas of interest include Middle East politics with a special focus on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shi‘a politics and symbolism, and comparative politics in general. He received both his BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Leela Fernandes is Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her scholarship has addressed the relationship among culture, gender, and political economy. She is currently conducting research on religious conversion and state secularism in India. Her most recent book is India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform.
JamesL. Guth is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He has written extensively on the role of religion in American and European politics. His current research projects include studies of the impact of religion on congressional voting and on the attitudes of religious publics concerning American foreign policy.
Brian Highsmith is a graduate of Furman University, where he studied political science and economics. He was a Furman Advantage Research Fellow and received the 2010 Furman Political Science Chair's Award.
Farida Jalalzai is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her research analyzes the representation and behavior of women and minorities in politics and the role of gender in the political arena. Her work focuses on women national leaders (Women and Politics; Politics & Gender; International Political Science Review; Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy), gender and campaign coverage (Politics & Policy), and the behavior of political widows compared to the husbands they replaced in Congress (Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy). In addition to a book length manuscript on women national leaders worldwide she is currently working on research dealing with Muslim political behavior (Politics & Religion) and the impact of discrimination on a wide range of Muslim American communities since 9/11.
J. E. Llewellyn is Professor and Department Head in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. He has written two books and edited a third about modern and contemporary Hinduism. This article is based on data collected in 2003–2004 when he was a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program fellow in India.
Laura McMillian holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and has two years of experience as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern. As a Certified Professional Coach by The International Coach Academy, she works in the areas of career, relationship, and executive coaching. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology to further her understanding of how psychology and systems dynamics relate to organizational functioning. Her primary research interest is the impact of organizational leaders’ narcissistic behaviors on employee work performance and job satisfaction.
Brent F. Nelsen is Professor of Political Science at Furman University. His three books and other professional publications focus on the political economy of European integration and religion and politics in Europe. He is currently co-authoring a book with James L. Guth on the role of religion in the genesis and development of the European Union.
JohnL. Phillips is the Charles G. Koch Visiting Assistant Professor at the joint program in Philosophy Politics and Economics at Duke and the University of North Carolina. He is interested in how empirical research helps turn political theory into public policy recommendations. Aside from questions of religion and politics, his research interests include the role natural resources play in theories of global justice and the similarities between different justifications for exclusion.
Contributors of book reviews
David C. Barker is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research on the intersection of religion and politics has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Political Behavior.
Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University. His work has appeared in leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics. He is the author (with Christopher P. Gilbert) of The Political Influence of Churches, and editor (with Laura R. Olson) of Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Interests in Community Conflict.
Loramy Gerstbauer is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Peace Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. She teaches in international relations and Peace Studies. Her publications focus on international NGOs involved in peace building, but a new research area is post-war reconciliation and the role of apologies and forgiveness.
Emily R. Gill is a Caterpillar Professor of Political Science at Bradley University, is the author of Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity and co-editor (with Gordon A. Babst and Jason Pierceson) of Moral Argument and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good. Her research and publications focus on tensions caused by cultural, religious, and sexual diversity in liberal democracies
Ted G. Jelen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include public opinion, religion and politics, feminism, and the politics of abortion. He has authored many books, including To Serve God and Mammon: Church-State Relations in the United States, 2nd ed., The Political World of the Clergy, and (as editor) Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies: Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism.
Bernadette Meyler is a Professor of Law and English at Cornell University and Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School. She is currently completing two books, one on Common Law Originalism and the other on Theaters of Pardoning from Shakespeare to Kant.
Luca Ozzano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Torino in Italy. He recently has published a book, Fundamentalism and Democracy: The Religious Right and the Conquest of the Public Sphere in India, Israel, and Turkey, and is now working on a comparative project about left-wing, religiously oriented political actors in the contemporary world.
Matthew Avery Sutton is an Associate Professor of History at Washington State University and the author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.
Lucas Swaine is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism, and of numerous articles on religion and politics. Swaine is currently completing Liberal Autonomy, a book-length manuscript on the nature and importance of personal autonomy in democratic life.
Ed Waggoner works in the areas of politics and religion and systematic theology, and currently teaches at Yale Divinity School. He is writing on the nexus of religious, political and legal questions raised by the U.S. military's chaplaincy; organicist premises in the thought of 19th Century theologian, Friedrich Schleiermacher; and contemporary views about divine triunity.
