Contributors of articles
Lisa Blaydes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.
David Blouin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University–South Bend. His primary areas of teaching and research include culture, human-animal relations, quantitative research methods, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His scholarly publications include research on service learning, undergraduate research, and the cultural, demographic, and biographical bases of relationships between people and their pets.
Neilan Chaturvedi received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine and his now an Assistant Professor at Seattle University. He studies the intersection of public opinion, political participation, and political institutions.
Justin Earl Lance is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Presbyterian College. His research interests include Latin American politics and political economy, with an emphasis on Brazil, as well as African politics and third world development.
Rachel Gillum is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Her dissertation examines public opinion and political behavior of Muslim Americans since 2001.
Christine Hassenstab is an Adviser in the EU Grants Office at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned her BA in History from the University of Washington, her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from NTNU in 2010. She worked as a Public Defender in King County, Washington, from 1987 to 2001, when she moved to Norway. Her Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Body Law and the Body of Law: A Comparative Study of Social Norm Inclusion in Norwegian and American Laws.”
Peter S. Henne is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland-College Park; he was previously a National Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia and received his Ph.D. from the Georgetown University Department of Government. His research focuses on religion and international security, and his work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Terrorism and Political Violence and several peer-reviewed edited volumes.
Steven Kettell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are centered on the relationship between politics and religion. He is currently engaged in research projects analyzing the politics of atheism and the politics of Christianity in the United Kingdom. He is also a co-founder and executive editor of British Politics.
Erin S. McAdams is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Presbyterian College. Her research focuses on American public opinion, political behavior and religion and politics in the United States.
Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and a Senior Associate of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO). Born in London, England, she was educated at Stanford University, the University of Arkansas, and UCLA, receiving her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 12 scholarly books (three of which have been published in Croatian translations) and editor or co-editor of 29 books (27 published and two in production). Her books have also been published in Croatian, French, German, Italian, and Serbian translations. Her latest book is Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia: Value transformation, education, and media, co-edited with Ola Listhaug and Albert Simkus.
Robert V. Robinson is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. His recent book with Nancy Davis, Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare in Egypt, Israel, Italy, and the United States, won the gold medal in religion of the Independent Publishers Book Awards.
Renat Shaykhutdinov is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Peace Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University. His areas of interest include the politics of nonviolence, ethnic and religious policies, power-sharing institutions, and the politics of post-communism. His publications appear in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Peace Education, Journal of Ideology, International Journal of the Humanities, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des Slavistes, and European Journal of Economic and Political Studies.
Brian Starks currently directs the Catholic Social and Pastoral Research Initiative (CSPRI) at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests are in the sociology of religion, and he recently produced (with Christian Smith) a report entitled “Unleashing Catholic Generosity: Explaining the Catholic-giving gap in the U.S.” His scholarly publications include research on Catholic identity, parental values, and moral cosmology theory.
Contributors of book review
Deniz Aksoy is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research interests are in comparative politics, with a focus on political institutions and the effects of institutions on political behavior. Her work has appeared in several journals including Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and American Journal of Political Science.
Gretchen Buggeln holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the arts at Valparaiso University, where she writes and teaches about the intersection of Christian belief and the material world. Her primary research interest is American sacred spaces, and she is currently finishing a book about the ubiquitous, modern-style, suburban church of the postwar era.
Melissa Deckman is a Professor of Political Science and the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. She is the author of School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics and co-author of Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence among other scholarly works. An Affiliated Scholar with the Public Religion Research Institute, her current research focuses on the role of gender and religion in the Tea Party movement.
Ron E. Hassner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of War on Sacred Grounds and the editor of Religion in the Military Worldwide. He is also the co-director of Berkeley's Religion, Politics and Globalization Program and the founder and first chair of the International Studies Association's section on Religion and International Relations.
Ned O'Gorman is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, working at the intersections of the history of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, and political thought, with special interest in the crises and tensions of modernity. He is the author of Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy and a number of essays on rhetorical theory, aesthetics, religion, political theory, and political history.
Jon Pahl is the Hagan Professor of History and Director of MA Programs at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He is the author of Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence, and many other books and articles in American religious history.
Andrew Preston is a Reader in American History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University, where he also serves as editor of The Historical Journal. His most recent book is Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.
Steve Vanderheiden is an Associate Professor of political science and environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the USA, and Professorial Fellow with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
