Contributors of Articles
Olena Bagno-Moldavski received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2010, is a Research Fellow in the Institute for National Security Studies. Her writings on political behavior, political socialization, foreign policy, and politics of diasporas have appeared in a wide range of scholarly outlets.
Ronald Keith Gaddie is President's Associates Presidential Professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Oklahoma. He is author or coauthor of several books including The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act, The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics, and Politics in America (10th ed.).
Rebecca A. Glazier is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She studies religion and politics, U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, and pedagogy.
Caroline M. Lancaster is an undergraduate student at Furman University. Her major is political science with a minor in Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Nahshon Perez is a lecturer at the department of political studies, Bar Ilan University. His research interests include religious toleration, various problems of pluralism and the adequate institutional arrangements between religion and state. Currently he is completing a book manuscript on the ‘Women of the Western Wall’ titled, ‘Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in the Public Sphere’, under contract with Oxford University Press (co-authored with Yuval Jobani of TAU).
Matthew Scherer is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the School for Policy, Government, and International Affairs at the George Mason University. He is the author of Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion (Cambridge, 2013).
Allyson F. Shortle is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma. She has published peer-reviewed work in the areas of American public opinion, political psychology, religion and politics, and race and politics.
Christopher L. Weaver is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research examines a range of topics within political behavior and public opinion, including religion, moral psychology, and identity politics. His work has appeared in Politics and Religion and Law & Society Review.
A.Kadir Yildirim is a research scholar at the Baker Institute at Rice University. His research focuses on political Islam and Islamist moderation.
Contributors of Book Reviews
Lan T. Chu is Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs at Occidental College. Her research and teaching interests focus on the political role of religious institutions, the political liberalization processes of former and existing communist countries, faith diplomacy, and inter-religious dialogue. Her work has been published in Politics and Religion, Democratization, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, CPD Perspectives on Faith Diplomacy, East European Politics and Societies, and the BBC News.
Andrew S. Crines is Lecturer of Politics at the University of Liverpool. He has published in leading international and national journals on oratory and rhetoric in British politics. He is the author and/or editor of four books on political communication, and he frequently acts as a media commentator.
Robert W. T. Martin is Professor of Government at Hamilton College, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic (NYU Press).
Jerry Z. Park is Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. His research interests are at the intersection of race and religion, with a focus on intergroup relations, identity, and culture.
Marc Lee Raphael is the Sophia and Nathan Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of many books on Jews and Judaism in America. including The Synagogue in America: A Short History (NYU Press).
Contributors to Featured Review Exchange
Michael D. Driessen is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome. His research explores the nature of public religion in Catholic and Muslim societies. His articles have been recently published in the journal of Sociology of Religion, Comparative Politics, and Politics and Religion.
Karrie J. Koesel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where she specializes in contemporary Chinese and Russian politics, comparative authoritarianism, and religion and politics. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty she taught at the University of Oregon.
