Prof. Jocelyne Cesari holds the Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham (UK) and is Senior
Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.
Since 2018, she is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and
Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School. President elect of the European Academy of Religion
(2018-19), her work on religion and politics has garnered recognition and awards: 2020
Distinguished Scholar of the religion section of the International Studies Association,
Distinguished Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs and the Royal
Society for Arts in the United Kingdom. Her new book: We God’s Nations: Political
Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations, was published by Cambridge
University Press in 2022 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/we-gods-
people/314FFEF57671C91BBA7E169D2A7DA223) ( 2023 Book Award of the Scientific
Society for the Study of Religion). Other publications: What is Political Islam? (Rienner, 2018,
Book Award 2019 of the religion section of the ISA); Islam, Gender and Democracy in a
Comparative Perspective (OUP, 2017), The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion,
Modernity and the State (CUP, 2014). She is the academic advisor of www.euro-islam.info