Author Bios

Dr. Marc Gopin is the James Laue Professor at George Mason University, and the Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution.

Ali Hangan is a high school teacher in Pomona, California.

Peter Andreas is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He was previously an Academy Scholar at Harvard …

Ben Agger is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas-Arlington. Among his recent books are Oversharing and Texting toward Utopia.

Robert Adler is a freelance science writer.

Tracy L. Barnett is a journalist living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, Huffington Post, USA Today and Esquire Latin America, among others. She is …

Danielle Higgins is a PhD student at American University specializing in Comparative and Middle Eastern Politics.

Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to Foreign Policy and New Lines Magazine, he has earned a master's degree in political journalism from Columbia …

Rosalind is a graduate student at Columbia University where she studies at the School of Journalism and the School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, she worked as a …

Hessam Akhlaghpour is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University.