Zeynep Atalay (Lecturer, San Francisco State University): Political sociology, globalization, civil society, social movements, political Islam, sociology of religion and culture

Zahra Ayubi (Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies, University of Carolina- Chapel Hill): Islam and gender; modern and classical Islamic ethics; American Muslim history; feminist theory

Ann Marie Baylouny (Assistant Professor, National Security Affairs Department, Naval Postgraduate School) : Institutional creation and grassroots organizing for collective goods and services; Islamism, social mobilization, and the influence of constituencies; youth, Islamist media, Islamist women, and Hizbullah; refugees, diasporas, conflict, and institutions; Middle East

Asli Gur (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor): History, sociology, comparison, empire, education, evangelical missions, the Middle East, nationalism, heritage, archaeology

Anaita Khudonazar (2012-13 SSRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley): visual culture and knowledge production, transnational art, globalization, social media, Persian-speaking world, nationalism, iconology, Islam, post-Socialism

Elizabeth Lambourn (Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, De Montfort University UK; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, 2011-2013): History, material culture, mobility and cultural interaction, South Asia and Indian Ocean

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (Lecturer, University of California-Merced): Political economy of oil, Iraq, imperialism, international relations, American foreign policy, the Cold War