Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. His research centers on religious and ethical issues in world politics. Most recently he is the author of Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (Cornell University Press, 2011). He is also the editor of Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007), Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, co-edited with Robert Wuthnow (Oxford University Press, 2011).

José Casanova is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into five languages, including Arabic and Indonesian. In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of life-long achievement in the field of theology.

Jocelyne Cesari is a renowned scholar of Islam and Middle Eastern politics. She is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center, where she directs the Islam in World Politics program, and will be joining the Department of Government as a Visiting Associate Professor in January 2013. She has published works in a broad range of subjects, including Islam and globalization, Islam and secularism, immigration, and religious pluralism. She directs the international program “Islam in the West" affiliated with CRNRS in Paris and Harvard University. Her book When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2006) is a reference in the study of European Islam and integration of Muslim minorities in secular democracies.

Paul Elie is a Senior Fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Director of the American Pilgrimage Project, a university partnership with StoryCorps based in the Berkley Center. His work deals primarily with the ways religious ideas are given expression in literature, the arts, music, and culture in the broadest sense. He is the author of two books, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012), and of essays and articles for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Commonweal, and other periodicals. In the American Pilgrimage Project he is examining the ways religious beliefs inform the experiences of the American people at crucial moments in their lives.

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Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A former American diplomat and leading authority on international religious freedom, Farr has published widely, including "Diplomacy in an Age of Faith" in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2008), and World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security (Oxford University Press, 2008). Farr received his BA in history from Mercer University, and his Ph.D. in modern British and European history from the University of North Carolina.

Chester Gillis is the Dean of Georgetown College and the Founding Director of the Program on the Church and Interreligious Dialogue within the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. A Professor of Theology, Gillis is the Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and earned his PhD from the University of Chicago. Gillis has served on the faculty of Georgetown since 1988, was Chair of the Department of Theology from 2001 to 2006, and Director of the Doctor of Liberal Studies program from 2006 to 2008. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Liberal Studies Program in 2005. In 2008, he was the faculty mentor for the Berkley Center Undergraduate Fellows Program.

Michael Kessler is Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He works in Ethics (theological, philosophical, and political approaches), political theory, and the nexus of law, politics, and religion. Kessler received his Ph.D. focusing on Religion and Moral and Political Theory from the University of Chicago, where he was a William Rainey Harper Fellow and held a Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship. Kessler received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He graduated with a BA with honors in Theology and a second major in Philosophy from Valparaiso University.

Katherine Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where she leads the Center's program on Religion and Global Development. After a long career in the development field, including several leadership positions at the World Bank, Marshall moved to Georgetown in 2006, where she also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service. She helped to create and now serves as the Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.

Eric Patterson, PhD is Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He also serves as Dean of the School of Government at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. His research and teaching focuses on religion and politics, ethics and international affairs, and just war theory in the context of contemporary conflict. He has written and edited nine books, including most recently: Ending Wars Well: Just War Thinking and Post-Conflict (Yale University Press, 2012), Ethics Beyond War's End (Georgetown University Press, 2012), and Politics in a Religious World: Toward a Religiously Literate U.S. Foreign Policy (Continuum, 2011). Other recent books include Debating the War of Ideas (with John Gallagher, 2009) and Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats (Lexington Books, 2007).

Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center For Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Government Department, Georgetown University. He is a political scientist specializing in the relationship between religion and political freedom in theory, history, and contemporary practice. Shah is author, with Monica Duffy Toft and Daniel Philpott, of God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2011) and is editor of an Oxford University Press series on “Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South” that has so far generated three volumes. His articles on religion and global politics have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Democracy, the Review of Politics, and elsewhere.