Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is a religion professor Williams College, who is particularly useful for reporters who need to understand why Western assumptions about “religion” can be misleading in Japan. His research examines how categories such as religion, science and superstition were constructed in modern Japan and how those categories shaped Shinto and Buddhist traditions […]

Celene Ibrahim is an expert in Islamic studies with a focus on gender, family and ethics in Muslim communities, especially in the American context. Her work helps explain lived Muslim experiences and intra-faith diversity. She is the author of  Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 2020). Ibrahim is also the author of the […]

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

Keren R. McGinity is an educator-activist who specializes in Jewish intermarriage and gender roles. She was the interfaith specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and is also affiliated with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and teaches American studies at Brandeis University. She was the founding director of the Interfaith Families Jewish Engagement program at Hebrew […]

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University generates research for the education field, develops technical and organizational capacity within education agencies and convenes a network of schools and systems dedicated to using evidence for educational progress. Christina Grant is executive director.

Liz Bucar’s research and writing covers a wide range of topics — from sexual reassignment surgery to the politics of religious clothing — but generally focuses on how a deeper understanding of religious difference can change our sense of what is right and good. She is the author of four books, including Stealing My Religion: […]

Holly Walters is an anthropologist at Wellesley College whose work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists and Bonpos who venerate […]

Aparna Gopalan is a News Editor at Jewish Currents. She has published stories on the connections between Zionism and Hindu nationalism.

Monica Toft is a professor of international politics and director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, serving as faculty adviser of the Fletcher Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy.