Berkley Center

Clifford Bob is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Duquesne University. He is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (2005), The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (2012), and Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power (2019).

José Casanova is one of the world's leading scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. He is also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he previously taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. During 2017 he was the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the U.S. Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center, where he worked on a book manuscript on Early Modern Globalization through a Jesuit Prism. He has published works on 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 (University of Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology. Casanova is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

James D. Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia, as well as executive director of the university's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He authored the seminal 1992 work Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which re-introduced the term "culture war" into popular usage. He is the author of eight other books, edited four books, and published a wide range of essays, articles, and reviews—all variously concerned with the problem of meaning and moral order in a time of political and cultural change in American life. His newest book is Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (2018). 

Olivier Roy is joint-chair at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Department of Political and Social Sciences at European University Institute, and heads the ReligioWest research project. He previously was head of the OSCE’s mission to Tajikistan and a consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan. He is the author, among other books, of Globalized Islam (2004), Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways (2010), and Is Europe Christian? (2019).

Kristina Stoeckl is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck and principal investigator of the project “Postsecular Conflicts.” Her publications include, among others, "The Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the Transnational Alliances of Moral Conservatives" in the Journal of Classical Sociology (2017, with Dmitry Uzlaner) and The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (2014).