Contributors of Articles
Andrew S. Crines is a Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests include rhetoric and oratory in British politics, political leadership, and ideology. He is co-editor of Labour Orators from Bevan to Miliband and of Conservative orators from Baldwin to Cameron.
Brian J. Fogarty is an Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Mehmet Gurses is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and his doctorate from University of North Texas. His research interests include democracy and democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, and post-civil war democratization. His publications have appeared in International Interactions, Social Science Quarterly, Civil Wars, Defense and Peace Economics, Democratization, Party Politics, International Studies Perspectives, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and Political Research Quarterly.
George Hawley is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of White Voters in 21st Century America and Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.
H. Whitt Kilburn is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan.
Yu Tao is a Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. He is also finishing his doctoral project at the University of Oxford. Trained as a political sociologist, his primary research interests are the roles that religious groups play in contentious politics.
Güneş Murat Tezcür received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His writings on political violence, political Islam, democratization, foreign policy, and judicial politics have appeared in a wide range of scholarly outlets.
Kevin Theakston is a Professor of British Government and Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the author or editor of 12 books on British politics and political history, and works particularly on political leadership, prime ministers and government institutions.
Kenneth D. Wald is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Samuel R. “Bud” Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture & Society, University of Florida.
Contributors of Book Reviews
Michael Bosia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. His research focuses on communities facing the pressures of globalization and marginalization, most recently on state homophobia and LGBT activism in France, Uganda, and Egypt. He is co-editor of Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food.
Cynthia Burack is a Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She co-edits the Queer Politics and Cultures book series, and her most recent book, Tough Love: Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right, appeared in that series in 2014.
Christopher B. Chapp is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Religious Rhetoric and American Politics: The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns. His research interests include political communication, campaigns and elections, religion and United States politics, and the politics of class and inequality
M. Christian Green holds a J.D./Ph.D. and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and an editor of the Journal of Law and Religion.
Paul Lauritzen is a Professor of Religious Ethics at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author or editor of five books and has published extensively on issues in bioethics, human rights, and religious ethics. He is the past coeditor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and is currently an associate editor with the Journal of Religious Ethics.
Harold Morales is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University. His research focuses on the intersections between race, religion and media. Currently, he is working on a monograph on diverse and dynamic Latino Muslim communities and the making of ethno-religious “minorities” in the Information Age.
Derek R. Peterson is a Professor of History and African Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival, won the Melville Herskovits Prize and the Martin Klein Prize.
Meredith L. Weiss is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow and Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia, and editor of, most recently, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia. Her research addresses political mobilization and contention, the politics of identity and development, and electoral politics in Southeast Asia.
Rhys H. Williams is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. His research is focused on religion in American public life, including work on religion in urban politics, religiously-based social movements, and religion and the politics of immigration. He was recently President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2011-2012).
