Sean Everton is a Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and the Co-Director of the CORE (Common Operational Research Environment) Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Prior to joining NPS in 2007, he served as an adjunct professor at both Santa Clara and Stanford universities. He earned his MA and PhD in Sociology at Stanford University and wrote his doctoral thesis on the causes and consequences of status on venture capital firm performance. He has published in the areas of social network analysis, sociology of religion, diffusion, economic sociology, and political sociology and currently specializes in the use of social network analysis to track and disrupt dark networks (e.g., criminal and terrorist networks). His first book, Disrupting Dark Networks, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, and his second book, Understanding Dark Networks (co-authored with Daniel Cunningham and Phil Murphy), was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2016. His most recent book, Networks and Religion, which explores the interplay of networks and religion, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.

Susannah Crockford is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests cover the ethnographic study of religion, ecology, and medicine, with field sites in the southern and midwestern US and northern Europe. Her first monograph was published in May 2021 by the Class 200 list of the University of Chicago Press, titled Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. Her next book will be an ethnography of climate change. Follow on Twitter: @suscrockford.

Vagner Gonçalves da Silva is Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. He is Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the City University of New York, where he was also a visiting professor on a Fulbright Scholar Program. He develops research in Afro-Brazilian populations, focusing on topics such as Candomblé, Umbanda, Neo-Pentecostalism, religious intolerance, relations between religion and Brazilian culture, Afro-Brazilian arts, and ethnographic representation. He is author of Orishas of the Metropolis; Candomblé and Umbanda; The Anthropologist and His Magic; and Exu, An Afro-Atlantic God in Brazil. He serves as editor of Religious Intolerance and Afro-Brazilian Memory.

Quincy D. Newell is the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Humanistic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, where she has been on the faculty since 2015. An expert in the religious history of the American West, Newell is the author of, among other books, Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, an Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon (Oxford University Press, 2019). Newell is also co-editor, with Benjamin E. Park, of the Mormon Studies Review.

Susannah Crockford is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests cover the ethnographic study of religion, ecology, and medicine, with field sites in the southern and midwestern US and northern Europe. Her first monograph was published in May 2021 by the Class 200 list of the University of Chicago Press, titled Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona. Her next book will be an ethnography of climate change. Follow on Twitter: @suscrockford.

Dr Elvire Corboz is lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Middle East at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in contemporary Twelver Shi‘ism, with a particular focus on the clerical establishment, Shi‘i institutions in the United Kingdom, Iraqi Shi‘i Islamism, as well as Sunni-Shi‘i relations especially in European contexts.

Sean Remz is an MA candidate in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, and previously completed an MA in the Department of History, also at Concordia. Sean is interested in the intersectional effects of religion, ethnicity, and class on bystanders to the Holocaust in Hungary and its former borderlands, with a particular fascination on the Seventh-Day Adventists of Debrecen, and the Sabbatarians of Székely Land.

Yasmina Male is a recent graduate of McGill University, where she earned a BA in Political Science and Gender Studies and received the Honorable Sheila Finestone Award in Women’s Studies. Yasmina is passionate about social justice and equity, having worked in the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver and volunteered with the Montreal Abortion Access Project. She most recently worked with the Loran Scholars Foundation, the largest provider of undergraduate scholarships in Canada, and is currently working in management consulting in Toronto. She worked as a research assistant to Dr. Susan Palmer from 2018 to 2020.

David Breme currently works as a French redactionnal coach for students in Human and Social Sciences. His current project is Chief Redactor of ‘Revue Ouverture, revue internationale de philosophie, théologie et psychanalyse’ at the C.É.I.N.R, Centre d’Écoute et d’Interprétation sur les Nouveaux modes du Croire, in partnership with Institut d’Études Religieuses, Université de Montréal. David does qualitative research with a grounded theory in Cultural Anthropology, Litterature and Religious Studies (PhD, UQÀM 2018). He is also a Teacher Assistant on Hinduism (UQÀM 2012, University Laval, Fall 2021) & Tibetan Buddhism (UQÀM, 2014) and is working currently till 2019 in a research project on Canadian Sikkhism. Finally, he is a writer and a literary canadian translator (LTCA/ATTLC) in French language.

David Neumann received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California. He is Associate Professor of History Education at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. His research interests include transnationalism, American religion, the Cold War, Southern California, and historical thinking. His Finding God through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) explores the development of contemporary yoga in the US in the context of transnationalism and modern religion.