Joseph J. Kaminski, Ph.D., is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations. He received his B.A. from Rutgers College, Rutgers University, in 2004; his M.A. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2008; and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2014. His research interests include religion and politics, particularly in the Muslim world; comparative political theory; comparative ethics; and new approaches to public reason in Muslim-majority societies. His scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous academic journals, including The Journal of Politics, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, PS: Political Science & Politics, Social Compass, Religious Studies Review, and Thunderbird International Business Review. He is also the author of two monographs: The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2021).