Kerstin Hamann (Ph.D. Washington University) is Pegasus Professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, an M.A. in Political Science, and an M.A. in West European Studies (all from Washington University). She twice served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association …

Peter S. Henne is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on religious politics (specifically the impact of religious repression), terrorism, and the Middle East. His first book—published by Cambridge University Press—analyzed the impact of Islam-state ties on Muslim states’ counterterrorism policies. His current work explores …

Luigi Achilli is senior researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He taught at Cambridge, SOAS, and various universities in the Middle East. His research and writing focus on irregular migration, transnational crime, refugee studies, political engagement and …

Sureyya Sonmez Efe is a Lecturer in International Relations and Post-doc Research Associate at University of Lincoln, UK. Sureyya studied European Studies (BA Hons) at The Open University, followed by Globalising Justice: Human Rights, Crime and Social Justice (PG) at University of Lincoln. She completed her PhD in Political Science at Leeds Beckett University, where she was a member of …

Dimitris Skleparis is Lecturer in the Politics of Security at Newcastle University. Dimitris’s research is at the intersection between critical security studies and migration/refugee studies. Dimitris is interested in how migration is governed, perceived, and experienced amid increasing insecurities. He focuses particularly on the dynamics between security discourse and practice and their human impact. He approaches these issues from an …

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London and Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Educated at the Universities of Hamburg, American (Washington DC) and Cambridge, where he received his MPhil and PhD as a multiple scholarship student, Prof. Adib-Moghaddam was the first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow in International Relations and Peace Studies …

Dr. Rudabeh Shahid is an Advisor at the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center of the Washington DC-based Atlantic Council, where her portfolio includes ethnic and migration issues in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and North-eastern India. Additionally, Dr. Shahid is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics, University …

Dr. Mariam Mufti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Johns Hopkins University. She studies the politics of hybrid regimes, with a particular focus on the role of the military, political parties, and identity in the processes of recruitment and selection of the …

Dr Rico Isaacs is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. His research interests lay at the intersection of authoritarianism, nationalism, culture and political theory in post-Soviet states with a specific emphasis on the Central Asian Republics. His work has examined the formal and informal institutional sources of support which create order and disorder …

Jeffrey M. Stonecash is a political scientist, and educator who has worked for the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in the department of political science. Stonecash is an active researcher in areas such as American political parties and the realignment of the electoral base; the effects of such realignment on national policy debates; and how the role of government changes …