Jaclyn Bunch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at the University of South Alabama. Her research interests include political behaviour, federalism, and intergovernmental relations.
Ryan P. Burge is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. He is the co-founder and frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a blog to make empirical work about American religion accessible to the general public.
Brian Calfano is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on marginalized groups, religion, and media.
Aleš Črnič is Professor of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubjana. He has published two books on alternative religiosities in the Western world and has served as secretary general and vice-president of the International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association.
Paul A. Djupe teaches Political Science at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics & Religion, the editor of the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series with Temple University Press, and co-founder of the Religion in Public blog.
Sarah K. Dreier is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. Her political science research combines qualitative and computational methods to examine the intersection between religion, state power, and human rights.
Emily K. Gade is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University. Her research focuses on the causes, nature and outcomes of political violence; insecurity of minority groups; state repression; and forms of resistance.
Nazita Lajevardi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her research centers on issues related to race and ethnic politics, political behavior, voting rights, and immigration.
Scott Liebertz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at the University of South Alabama. His research interests include political behaviour, public policy, democratization, Latin American Politics, and comparative criminal justice.
Melissa R. Michelson is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Menlo College. Her research focuses on how to best motivate Latinx and Black citizens to vote and how to reduce prejudice against members of the LGBTQ community.
Shafi Md. Mostofa is an Assistant Professor of Dhaka University and a Ph.D. fellow of University of New England, Australia. His publications have appeared (or are forthcoming) with Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan; and the journals: Perspectives on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Terrorist Analyses, and Peace and Conflict Review.
Jonathan Schaeffer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and in Law, Societies and Justice from the University of Washington.
DB Subedi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education in Armidale, Australia. His current research studies nationalism, religion and state building in South Asia.
Alexander Thurston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of three books: Salafism in Nigeria (Cambridge, 2016); Boko Haram (Princeton, 2018); and Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel (Cambridge, 2020).
Nancy D. Wadsworth is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver and author of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing (University of Virginia Press, 2014).
John Wilkerson is Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He is particularly interested in how computational text as data methods can enhance understanding of legislative policymaking.
