Contributors
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Lisa Silvestri Carlton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. She has an MA in Communication and Culture from Indiana University. Her research interests involve American culture and politics with a special focus on war and new media. She is currently the principal investigator in a research study about the way U.S. service personnel use social media from Iraq and Afghanistan. Lisa is also a volunteer archivist for the Veterans' Oral History Project at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies at Georgia State University. His previous two books focused directly on certain problematic biblical themes: God Gardened East: A Gardener's Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis (Cascade Books, 2008) and This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrupted the Heart of Christianity (Jossey-Bass, 2008). His latest book, Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum, was released in November 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Aaron Stalnaker is an associate professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He studies ethics and philosophy of religion, giving serious attention to both Chinese and Western theories and practices. He is the author of Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine (Georgetown University Press, 2006), a comparative study of different models of moral and religious personal formation. His current research concerns the idea of mastery as it relates to the ethics of authority and hierarchy. [End Page v]
Bassam Tibi is Professor Emeritus of International Relations. After a long career, including time spent at numerous prestigious U.S. institutions, he retired in 2009 as Georgia Augusta Professor of International Relations at the University of Göttingen in Germany. He is the author of many books in both English and German, most recently Islamism and Islam (Yale University Press, 2012) and Islam in Global Politics: Conflict and Cross-Civilizational Bridging (Routledge, 2012). [End Page 1]
