Clayton Crockett is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is author of Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics after Liberalism.
B. Keith Putt is Professor of Philosophy at Samford University. He is editor of Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology.
Jeffrey W. Robbins is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy, and Director of American Studies at Lebanon Valley College. He is author of Radical Democracy and Political Theology and editor (with Clayton Crockett) of Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism.
Balbinder Singh Bhogal is a professor in religion and the holder of the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies at Hofstra University, NY. His primary research interests are South Asian religions and cultures specializing in the Sikh tradition, particularly the Guru Granth Sahib, its philosophy and exegesis. Secondary research interests include critical theory, political mysticism, and decolonial, animal, and affect studies.
J. Kameron Carter is a professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has additional appointments in the English, Gender Studies, and African American and African Diaspora Studies departments. He is co-director of IU’s Center for Religion and the Human. His work focuses on questions of race, empire, and ecology as matters of political theology and the sacred. Carter is the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2008), the editor of Religion and the Futures of Blackness (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2013) as well as The Matter of Black Religion: Thinking with Charles H. Long (a special issue of the journal American Religion, 2021), and the author of the forthcoming book, The Anarchy of Black Religion (Duke University Press).
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory.
Seth Gaiters is a doctoral candidate and interdisciplinary scholar at the Ohio State University investigating the intersection of religion, race, and politics in the Americas. He is especially concerned with the conjuncture of religion and progressive social movements in the history of Black communities in the United States. Seth’s dissertation examines the religiosity of the Movement for Black Lives, popularly called the Black Lives Matter movement. His study of these matters is driven by religious studies, Black studies, American cultural studies, critical theory, and political theology; alongside methods of narrative and discourse analysis.
Lisa Gasson-Gardner is a PhD candidate in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion at Drew University. Her research interests include the status of truth in contemporary political discourse, ethnographic accounts of charismatic evangelical Christianity, radical theology, and political theology. She is a full-time instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Lisa is committed to dismantling white, cis, hetero, abled patriarchy everywhere.
Winfield Goodwin is a doctoral student in philosophy of religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
Lawrence Hillis is a doctoral student at Drew University. Located within the department of Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, his transdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection of political theology, religion and economics, queer and affect theories, and childhood studies. Hillis is a candidate for ordination in the United Methodist Church and has received several awards and fellowships for his work pertaining to constructive theology and Wesleyan-Methodist studies.
Mehmet Karabela teaches in the School of Religion and the Department of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is the author of Islamic Thought through Protestant Eyes (Routledge, 2021) and Mustafa Sabri Efendi (Opsi Press, 2021). Karabela’s articles and writings have also appeared in edited books and journals. He has taught courses on Islam, religion and democracy, political theology, and religion and politics in Muslim societies as well as seminars such as the European perception of Jews and Muslims during the Enlightenment and Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire.
Michael Northcott is a professor of religion and ecology at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2019–), and emeritus professor of ethics at the University of Edinburgh (2018–). He was guest professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2018. His most recent books include A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming (2008), A Political Theology of Climate Change (2013), and Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (2015).
Austin Roberts is a doctoral candidate at Drew University in the Graduate Division of Religion. His current research focuses on the intersections of political theology, process philosophy, and critical Anthropocene studies. He lives, works, and teaches in Northern California.
Larry L. Welborn is a professor of New Testament and early Christian literature at Fordham University in New York City and honorary professor of ancient history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Welborn holds an MAR from Yale Divinity School and a PhD from Vanderbilt University. Among his publications are Politics and Rhetoric in the Corinthian Epistles (1997), Paul, the Fool of Christ (2005), An End to Enmity (2011), Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life (2015), and The Young against the Old (2018). Welborn is co-editor of Synkrisis, a series published by Yale University Press, and editor of the Paul in Critical Contexts series of Fortress Academic.
