Social Science Research Council

Gil Andijar is associate professor in the department of Middle East and Asian languages and cultures at Columbia University.

Scott Appleby is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of philosophy and the Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities at Columbia University. 

Craig Calhoun has been president of the Social Science Research Council since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

Hent de Vries is professor of humanities and philosophy in the Humanities Center and the department of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University.

Simon During is professor of English at Johns Hopkins University where he additionally serves as director of the Film and Media Program. He also holds a position as professorial fellow of the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. 

John L. Esposito is University Professor as well as professor of religion and international affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown University. He is founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Nilufer Göle is professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris and a leading authority on the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, religious Muslim women Stathis Gourgouris is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stathis Gourgouris is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University.

Colin Jager is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, where he specializes in romantic-era literature.

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

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.

Webb Keane is professor in the anthropology department at the University of Michigan.

Cecelia Lynch is associate professor of political science and international studies, as well as director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS) at the University of California, Irvine.

Tomoko Masuzawa is professor of history and comparative literature at the University of Michigan, who specializes in the history of the human sciences in the 19th and 20th century, particularly in the Western academic discourses on religion.

Aamir Mufti is associate profesor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Vincent Pecora is the Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Utah, where he is chair of the English department and director of the British studies program.

Elizabeth Povinelli is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University where she also co-directs the Center for the Study of Law and Culture.

Jonathan Sheehan is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.

Alfred C. Stepan is currently the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government and director of the Luce funded Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also a member of the SSRC Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs and chair of the SSRC Advisory Committee for Religion and International Affairs.

Charles Taylor is Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the former Chicele Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford and is professor emeritus of political science and philosophy at McGill University.

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is a research fellow and program officer for the Project on Religion and International Affairs at the Social Science Research Council.

Michael Warner is professor of English and American studies at Yale University.