Contributors of Articles
Robert Brathwaite is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University with a specialization in international relations. Brathwaite's teaching and research interests include topics associated with international security, terrorism, religion and democracy, religious violence, and the conduct of civil wars.
Ryan P. Burge is an instructor of Political Science at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. His work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals including Politics & Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Journal of Religious Leadership, and Representation. He is also the Co-editor and a regular contributor to Religion in Public, a website dedicated to informing the public about topics related to religion and politics
Rebecca A. Glazier is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her research agenda includes work on religion and politics, political communication, and U.S. foreign policy. She also studies the scholarship of teaching and learning.
John C. Green is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of Ray C. Bliss Institute for Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
Erin Accampo Hern is an Assistant Professor at the College of Idaho. Her work focuses on African politics, including issues of service delivery, political participation, and gender.
Kerem Ozan Kalkan is Assistant Professor of Government and Economics at Eastern Kentucky University. His research focuses on prejudice toward Muslims in the United States and Europe, Muslims' integration into Western societies, Turkish politics, and quantitative methods.
Geoffrey C. Layman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on religion and politics, party politics, public opinion, and voting behavior.
Andrew R. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Cambridge, 2017), as well as several articles on religion and politics.
Jeremy Menchik is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His 2016 book, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance Without Liberalism (Cambridge University Press) received the 2017 Religion and International Relations Best Book Award from the International Studies Association. Related research has been published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics, South East Asia Research as well as being featured in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
Baekkwan Park is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research interests include issues examining human rights, political violence, and international relations.
Elizabeth Sheridan Sperber is an Assistant Professor of Political Science the University of Denver. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of new religious movements in sub-Saharan Africa.
George Tyler is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan. His teaching and research focus on political theory, particularly issues within liberalism, and American politics.
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Daniel A. Bell is Dean of the School of Political science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) and professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University (Beijing). His latest book is The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton, 2015) and he is the editor of the Princeton–China series. He was awarded the Huilin prize in 2018.
Jiwei Ci is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and the author, most recently, of Moral China in the Age of Reform (Cambridge, 2014).
Stephen Macedo is the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He writes and teaches on political theory, ethics, American constitutionalism, and public policy. His books include: Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (Oxford, 1990); Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Harvard, 2000); and Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage (Princeton, 2015).
Kevin Wong graduated with a Master's degree in 2018 from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. Prior that he studied philosophy at Princeton University, where he was supervised by Peter Singer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and others.
Yongle Zhang is an Associate Professor in School of Law, Peking University. He received Ph.D. in political science from UCLA at 2008. His research focuses on state building and constitutional change, comparative empires and the history of international law, political culture and political ethics, and so forth. He is the author of two books, Remaking an Old Country: 1911–1917 (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2016) and The Rivalry of Nations: Kang Youwei and the Decay of the Vienna System (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2017).
Contributors of Book Reviews
Ryan L. Claassen is Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. His research interests include political participation, citizen competence, public opinion, election administration, religion and politics, interest groups, and racial and ethnic politics. He is author of Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans? (Cambridge University Press, 2015), coeditor (with Paul Djupe) of The Evangelical Crackup? (Temple University Press, 2018), author and coauthor of numerous articles in top political science journals.
Jo Renee Formicola, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. She teaches religion and politics, Church and State, and United States. government. Her latest book, Papal Policies on Clerical Sexual Abuse: God Weeps, will be published in 2019. She is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Church and State and other refereed publications.
Timothy Peace is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow at the University of Glasgow who has researched the political participation of Muslims in Europe. He is the author of European Social Movements and Muslim Activism: Another World but with Whom? (Palgrave, 2015).
Laura Thaut Vinson is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College. Her most recent publication is Religion, Violence, & Local Power-Sharing in Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2017).