Social Science Research Council

Scott Appleby is director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute and a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

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

Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University.

José Casanova is chair and professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research.

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

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern 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 chairs the Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs.

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

Cecelia Lynch is associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of social cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Charles Taylor is a professor emeritus of political science and philosophy at McGill University as well as the Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at Northwestern University.