Social Science Research Council

Thomas Banchoff is associate professor of government and director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

Michael Barnett is Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.

Mehrzad Boroujerdi is professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University.

José Casanova is chair and professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is also a member of the SSRC Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs.

Robert Hefner is professor of anthropology and associate director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University.

Mark Juergensmeyer is director of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also chair of the SSRC Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs.

Steve Lamy is professor of international relations and former director of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Timothy Samuel Shah is a senior fellow in religion and world affairs at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alfred C. Stepan is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is chair of the SSRC Advisory Committee for Religion and International Affairs.

Monica Duffy Toft is associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and assistant director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.

Karin Von Hippel is co-director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and senior fellow of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.