Contributors of Articles

David Campbell is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, co-authored with Quin Monson and John Green, is Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (2014, Cambridge University Press). He is also the co-author (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (2010, Simon and Schuster).

Ursula Hackett is a Junior Research Fellow in US Politics at the University of Oxford in association with Nuffield College and the Rothermere American Institute. Her research, which focuses on education policy, religion and politics and qualitative comparative analysis, has been published in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly and Quality & Quantity.

Süveyda Karakaya received her M.A. in Political Science from Kansas State University in 2009 and her PhD in Political Science from University of Tennessee in 2013. Dr. Karakaya currently works as an Assistant Professor at Meliksah University, Turkey.

Geoffrey C. Layman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics and has published numerous journal articles on religion and politics, party politics, and public opinion in the U.S.

Andrew R. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati. He researches the intersection of religion, politics, and law in America, and has published several articles on these topics in social science journals.

Laura R. Olson is a Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. She is also editor-in-chief of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her research focuses on contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics. Her work has appeared in leading scholarly journals, including Political Research Quarterly and Social Science Quarterly. She also is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, most recently Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices (Westview, 2013).

Christopher D. Raymond is a Lecturer in Politics at Queen's University Belfast. Much of his research focuses on the social cleavage bases of party politics and has appeared in Party Politics, Electoral Studies, International Political Science Review, and Political Studies among others.

Christopher L. Weaver is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on public opinion and identity politics and has been published or is forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly, Law & Society Review, and Politics and Religion.

Clyde Wilcox is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of over 30 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters on religion and politics, gender and public opinion, campaign finance, and more.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Michael Bernhard holds the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His work centers on questions of democratization and development, both globally and in the context of Europe.

Amy E. Black is Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College (IL). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at M.I.T. A specialist in American Government, her research interests include religion and politics, the Presidency, and Congress. She served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Representative Melissa A. Hart. Her most recent publication is Five Views on Church and Politics (Zondervan, 2015).

Kathleen A. Brady is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and religion, including the First Amendment religion clauses, religion in public life, law and theology, and Catholic social thought. Her book on The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

George Ehrhardt is an associate professor of government at Appalachian State University. His research focuses on religion and electoral politics.

Hasan Kösebalaban is an associate professor at Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey, and a research associate at Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst, MA. He obtained his BA degree in Political Science at the International Islamic University, Malaysia (1995), and his MA degree in International Relations at the International University of Japan (1997) and his Ph. D. degree in Political Science at the University of Utah (2006). Also, he conducted post-graduate research at the University of Tübingen, Germany (1998). He offered courses on comparative politics, international relations, Middle East and East Asian political systems, globalization and Turkish politics at the University of Utah (2001–2005), Mississippi State University (2005–2006), Michigan State University (2006–2008), Lake Forest College (2008–2011), and Mount Holyoke College (2013–2015). Kösebalaban is the author of Turkish Foreign Policy: Islam, Nationalism and Globalization published by Palgrave Macmillan, in 2011. In addition, he co-edited Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia (Lynne Rienner, 2008). His articles on Turkish and Middle East politics have appeared in various academic journals.

Joanna Rak is lecturer in the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). Relevant recent publications include “Contra-Acculturative Thought as the Source of Political Violence” in Terrorism and Political Violence 2016; 28 (2): 363–82; and “A Typology of Cultural Attitudes as a device Describing Political Thought of the Populations Influenced by Globalisation,” Anthropological Notebooks 2015; 21 (2): 55–70.

Elizabeth Sheridan Sperber is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Denver. She is completing a book manuscript on the rise of Pentecostalism in contemporary African politics.

Contributors to Featured Review Exchange

John W. Compton is an assistant professor of political science at Chapman University in Orange, California. His research examines the relationship between religion and constitutional development in the United States. His first book, The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2014), was awarded the William Nelson Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History.

Benjamin Lynerd, Assistant Professor of Government at Christopher Newport University, previously served as the Montesquieu Forum Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Roosevelt University in Chicago.