Linell E. Cady is the Franca G. Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. She is the author of Religion, Theology and American Public Life (1993), and co-editor of Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain (2002), and Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence (2007). She is also co-editor of Religion Dispatches, an online magazine devoted to advancing public scholarship and reflection on religion and public affairs.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She teaches and writes on the politics of religious diversity, law and religion, US foreign relations, and the international relations of the Middle East. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations, which won the APSA's Hubert Morken Award for the Best Book in Religion and Politics (2008-2010), and is co-organizer of a collaborative research project 'The Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices,' funded by the Luce Foundation.
