Dr. Jocelyne Cesari is Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. She was awarded the 2025 Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book, We God's Nations: Political Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations (2022), was awarded the 2023 Book Prize by the Scientific Society for the Study of Religion.