RFIA Staff and Contributing Editors

Dennis Hoover

Dr. Dennis R. Hoover is the editor of The Review of Faith & International Affairs. He is vice president for research and publications at the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) and he directs IGE's Center on Faith & International Affairs. 

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Akbar Ahmed

Dr. Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC.

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Qibla Ayaz

Qibla Ayaz is Professor of Seerat Studies (Prophetology) and Dean of Faculty of Islamic and Oriental Studies at University of Peshawar in Pakistan.

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Peter Berger

Dr. Peter Berger is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology and Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University.

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Drew Christiansen, S.J.

Drew Christiansen, S.J. is editor in chief of America, the U.S. Jesuit weekly magazine.

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Thomas Farr

Dr. Thomas F. Farr is Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.  

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Paul Freston

Dr. Paul Freston is CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and professor colaborador at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.

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T. Jeremy Gunn

Dr. T. Jeremy Gunn is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

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Allen Hertzke

Dr. Allen D. Hertzke is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. 

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Douglas Johnston

Dr. Douglas M. Johnston is President and Founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy.

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Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.

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Frederica Mathewes-Green

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a columnist for Beliefnet.com, a commentator on National Public Radio, and a movie reviewer for National Review Online.

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Mark Noll

Dr. Mark A. Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

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Daniel Philpott

Dr. Daniel Philpott is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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Elizabeth Prodromou

Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, where she is also a Research Associate of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs.

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Mark Silk

Dr. Mark Silk is professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.

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James Skillen

Dr. James W. Skillen is a Christian theologian and author, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Justice.

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Max Stackhouse

Dr. Max L. Stackhouse is a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and director of the Seminary's Kuyper Center for Public Theology.

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Scott Thomas

Dr. Scott M. Thomas lectures in International Relations and the Politics of Developing Countries in the Department of Economics and International Development at the University of Bath, UK.

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