Angie Heo (Afterword By)
Angie Heo is an associate professor of the anthropology and sociology of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of The Political Lives of Saints: Christian Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).

Candace Lukasik (Edited By)
Candace Lukasik is an assistant professor of religion and faculty affiliate in anthropology and Middle Eastern cultures at Mississippi State University. She is the author of Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire (NYU Press, 2025).

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz (Edited By)
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. She is the author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Authority in Appalachia (Fordham University Press, 2022).

Sonja Thomas (Foreword By)
Sonja Thomas is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College. Her research examines the intersections of caste, race, gender, class, and religion in postcolonial India and the South Asian diaspora. She is the author of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. She has also written articles on education and Christian religious minorities in India, on South Asian American Christians, and on tap dance in the United States and globally. She is currently completing a manuscript on Indian missionary priests in the United States entitled Indians and Cowboys: Race, Caste, and Indian Missionary Priests in Rural America.