Muslims in Western Politics

List of Contributors

Contributors Jodie T. Allen is Senior Editor at the Pew Research Center. She was previously managing editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report, Washington bureau chief for Slate Magazine, and editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section of the Washington Post, where she was also an editorial writer and business columnist. She has held positions in government and in private research organizations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Social Insurance. David Cole is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the legal affairs editor for The Nation. He is author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism; Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security; and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen is Senior Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Program Director for DIIS Studies in Terrorism and Counterterrorism. She is a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C., and holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Joel S. Fetzer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University . He specializes in comparative immigration politics and is author of Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany and co-author of Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany.  · Contributors Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and ChristianMuslim Relations at the Edmond B. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is past president of the Middle East Studies Association and a former editor of Muslim World. Her published works include Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History and Not Quite American? The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States. Amaney Jamal is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. She is principal investigator of “Mosques and Civic Incorporation of Muslim Americans ”; co–principal investigator of the Detroit Arab American Study, a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study; and Senior Advisor on the Pew Research Center Project on Islam in America. In 2005, Jamal was named a Carnegie Scholar. Jytte Klausen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis University and an affiliate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Her most recent book is The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. Klausen received the Carnegie Scholars Award in 2007. Jorgen S. Nielsen is Danish National Research Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Centre for European Islamic Thought, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. He has been active in research on Muslims in Europe, previously at the University of Birmingham, UK, since the late 1970s and is chief editor of the series Muslim Minorities, published by Brill, Leiden. Erik C. Nisbet is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Ohio State University. He specializes in comparative political communication and opinion formation, with a special focus on the role of mass media and public opinion in international conflict. Ronald Ostman is Professor Emeritus of Communication and former Department Chair at Cornell University, where he has taught and conducted research since 1979. He was a Visiting Fellow at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research in 1986, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pune, India , in 1988–1989, and a consultant on Information Dissemination for the World Health Organization, Geneva, in 1996. Robert Stephen Ricks is a Ph.D. student in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He received his M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown and his B.A. from Brigham Young University. During the 2003–2004 year, he was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo. Kent Roach is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto where he holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy and cross appointments in criminology and political science. He is the author of eight books, including September 11: Consequences for Canada, and the co-editor of six books, including Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy. He served on the research advisory commission for the Commission of Inquiry into the Activities of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. Contributors ·  James Shanahan is Associate Professor in and Chair of the Department of Communication at Fairfield...