Margaret Angucia (Uganda)

Indira Aslanova (Kyrgyzstan)

Abe Ata (Australia)

Eid Salah S. Beshara (Egypt)

Olga Chimczak (Poland)

Elma Demir (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Riane Elean (Indonesia)

Gabriel Faimau (Indonesia / Botswana)

Steve Gaspersz (Indonesia)

Steve Gaspersz is a Protestant pastor of the Protestant Church of Maluku (Gereja Protestan Maluku – GPM) and also serves as a lecturer at Faculty of Theology, Maluku Christian University of Indonesia (UKIM) both in Ambon, Province of Maluku, eastern part of Indonesia. He took his Master of Arts in Theology at the International Reformed Theological Institute – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2005) and now is studying as a graduate student of Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) Yogyakarta Indonesia. He has very concern on religious studies, conflict resolution, and interreligious dialogue. He once involved as researcher at the Maluku Crisis Center since and during the social conflict erupted in his homeland, Ambon and several Maluku islands. His currently research project is about Islam in post-conflict Maluku.

Ariadna Grigoryan (Armenia)

Ariadna Grigoryan is from Yerevan, Armenia. Currently she is graduating from Yerevan State Linguistic University having the profession of philologist and translator. She has been working for 2.5 years at the International Research and Exchanges board (IREX) as a program assistant implementing education exchange programs and organizing programmatic activities for US government alumni. She's been actively involved in conflict transformation and resolution projects between Armenia and Turkey and Armenia and Azerbaijan, such as Imagine Dialogue (Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict Resolution Project), School on Conflict Transformation for Gender Activists and Speaking to One Another (Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Project).

Ishanesu Sextus Gusha (Zimbabwe)

I was born on 20 January 1975 being the first born in a family of six. Educated at Dlodlo Primary School, Emthonjeni Primary School, Chiedza Primary School, Manunure High School, and St Patricks High School. Then I obtained my Diploma in Religious Studies, BA Honours in Religious Studies, and Masters in Religious Studies from University in Zimbabwe. I was ordained deacon in 2002 and then priest in 2003 in the Anglican Church. At the moment I am vicar at St Aidans Parish Diocese of Harare (CPCA). The parish has an enrolment of 650 communicants. I am also the Diocesan youth chaplain with an enrolment of around 4000 youths. Then I am lecturing at Bishop Gaul College, Wadzanai Training Centre, and United Theological College. I am a New Testament Scholar as well as an upcoming peace building researcher.

Asim Jusić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Asim Jusić currently teaches law at American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Sarajevo, a Master of Arts in American Studies from the University of Heidelberg, a Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree," both from Central European University in Budapest. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked in legal practice and in economic and political consultancy for a number of international and non-governmental organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the US, Germany and Hungary.

Raihana Kamal (Afghanistan)

Raihana Kamal is currently earning her BBA in Business Management at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) and working as a paralegal with Wassil Law Offices supporting USAID-DAI's Agricultural Credit Enhancement Program funded by USAID. Raihana holds seven years of experience working in capacity development, grants management for Afghan women-led organizations, administration and project management with multiple international organizations in Afghanistan. In 2011, she was selected to attend the 6-week Study of United States Institutes (SUSI) leadership program hosted by the University of Kansas. During SUSI program, she identified women's education to be a significant gap in her community which has inspired her to work towards reform as she progresses in her career. She is in the early stages of dialogue with the educational department and community elders in the eastern region of Afghanistan, one of the most conservative parts of the country and where women have little to no access to education. Simultaneously, she is working to obtain legal standing with Afghan Government to raise funds in order to implement her projects to improve education for Afghan women at the grassroots level. In May 2012, Raihana participated in a US International Action conference on a 4-person youth panel where she spoke on Afghan Women's status in the process of transition at one of the Plenary sessions "On the Front Lines: Youth, Gender, and Political Change". Earlier this year, Raihana was awarded the title of Young Political Leader by U. S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker for her work for Afghan women. Also an aspiring photographer, Raihana won the first place award during the Insight Dubai international cultural photo competition, competing against photographers from 30 countries.

Steven Kramer (United States of America)

Steven Philip Kramer has been a Professor of National Security Studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University since 1993. From 1996-2002 he served as Senior Policy Advisor in the European Bureau of the United States Department of State. In 2011 he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center working on the question of whether government policy can reverse falling birth rates in developed societies. He is a historian who has written widely about modern and contemporary Europe politics and culture and about France in particular. His interests include the history of socialism, European integration and Franco-German reconciliation, how nations respond to defeat and the role of philosemitism in history. Kramer holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.

Rony Kristanto (Indonesia)

Rony C. Kristanto, born in Surakarta, August 6th, 1980. Received Master of Theology (M.Th) from Duta Wacana Christian University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2006). Lecture in Abdiel Theological College since 2007- now. Serve as Youth Pastor at Gereja Isa Almasih Pringgading (The Church of Jesus Christ), Semarang (2007-2012) and Chief of Interfaith Dialogue Commission at Synod of Gereja Isa Almasih (2008-2012). He is also Coordinator of Interfaith Youth Network that building bridge among youth from different religions in a short program called "pondok damai", parcitipants will stay together and share their personal religious experience. Rony also initiate cultural dialogue among religions using music and traditional dance. He has academic concern on Pentecostal and Charismatic Movement, especially in Indonesian Urban Context. Since 2012, he became Pastor of Oikos Network Church, an alternative church in Indonesia's urban and plural context.

Allan Lehmann (United States of America)

Allan Lehmann counsels, teaches and advises rabbinical students as Associate Dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School in Boston, Massachusetts, a pluralistic school for people who intend to become rabbis. It includes teachers and students from across a spectrum of Jewish practice and belief.  He coordinates the school's program in spiritual direction and teaches classic Jewish texts relating to worship and sacred times. He earned his BA from Columbia University, his MA from Temple University and Rabbinic Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Before coming to Hebrew College in 2007, he served as the Jewish Chaplain and Rabbinic Hillel Director at Brandeis University for seven years. Previously he was the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue in Gainesville, Florida, for over twenty years. A native of New Orleans, he currently serves as president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis. 

Nathan Loewen (Canada)

Nathan Loewen travelled from a small farm on Canada's prairies to Montreal in order to pursue his doctoral research; his objective was to determine how to shift the political orientation of Western philosophy's "problem of evil" from absolutism to democracy. Now, as a professor of humanities at Vanier College, cosmopolitan Montreal is his home.  Nathan focuses on three teaching areas: the philosophy of religion, international development studies and Jain studies. Nathan contributes to Vanier's diversity by establishing institutional connections with Indian universities and rural-urban connections with a "virtual team-teaching" project. He is very interested in leveraging internet resources to deepen his students' understanding of their world. In fall 2012, Nathan will be promoting a 'global studies' classroom to other Vanier teachers. This is part of a long-term goal to establish a global studies program at Vanier. He also chairs the American Academy of Religion's "International Development and Religion" group and supports the programming of the International Summer School for Jain Studies. Montreal gives Nathan plenty to enjoy in his spare time: from working in a community garden to attending events in the neighbourhoods, universities and communities throughout the city.

Gulnara Mendikulova (Kazakhstan)

Gulnara Malbagarovna Mendikulova is Director of the Research Center on Diaspora Studies at the World Association of the Kazakhs; Chief Researcher at the Institute of History and Ethnology, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan (IHE MES RK). Her main research areas are the historical and current problems of ethnic politics, the Kazakh Diaspora and Irredenta, Migration in Eurasia, ethnicity, polyethnicity in Central Asia, and others. She is Doktor istoricheskikh nauk, full Professor of History. She has had various fellowship, grants and awards from state and international organizations, has published about 200 research works, including 5 monographs.

Firdaus Mubarik (Indonesia)

Firdaus Mubarik is a Muslim Ahmadiyah activist, he turn advocating religious freedom right after his community got years persecution in Indonesia. He used to work as web designer, a part time travel guide and writer. At 2010 he write about child refuge in Lombok, that their community has fled from Pancor since 2002 after a city cleaning of Ahmadiyah Member. The article won best feature at "The Alliance of Independent Journalists - UNICEF Award 2011".  When 3 Ahmadi killed and broken court system didnt work his group launch @CikeusikTrial, a twitter account that live tweet from court room. Releasing picuture, video and court document. When the trial over they emerges as Perkumpulan 6211 where Mubarik continue the idea to more boarder subject. As technology lover now he using his experience mixing a pocket video camera, social media and human security teaching religious minorities in remote place to defend their right.

Vincent Muderhwa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Rev Barhatulirwa Vincent Muderhwa, after having got his Master's Degree in New Testament at the University of South Africa on 2005, sojourned as visiting doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Geneva in Switzerland. He completed his doctoral thesis in 2008 and was graduated in 2009 at the University of South Africa. He is currently Professor of New Testament at the Faculty of Theology in Goma and in Bukavu at the Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs even at some Faculties of Theology in Rwanda. Vincent Muderhwa is the Director of the African Center for Research and Peace Education and Democracy (CAREPD/ULPGL). He has published articles, and very recently, by an international journal of South Africa, namely HTS (Theological Studies) on the Gospel of John. His current expertise and research deal with Peace Education and Conflict Transformation.

Nurun Nisa' (Indonesia)

Nurun Nisa' works for the WAHID Institute of Jakarta which concerns on seeding plural and peaceful Islam. She manages MRORI (Monthly Report on Religious Issues), writes annual report on religious freedom and life in Indonesia, develops networking, and advocacy. Recently, with scholarship, she also continues her study in Graduate School of UIN (Universitas Islam Negeri – State Islamic University) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta focuses on Islamic Political Thought. Her area of interests includes interfaith dialogue, politics--especially on state regulation concern on religion—and women movement in Islam. She likes Gus Dur's quote: "Gitu aja kok repot" (What a big deal)

Noel Santo Nyombe (South Sudan)

Father Noel Nyombe Santo is a Catholic Priest from the Archdiocese of Juba in South Sudan. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Development Studies in Uganda Martyrs University. He has graduated from the Uganda Martyrs University and the Studio Teologico S. Antonio – Bologna (ITALY). Noel's research focus is on 'the role of World Bank's Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) in Postconflict Development'. In the past Noel, has worked as Director of Media office and the Archives Office, a journalist, and a personal secretary to Archbishop of Juba.

Mustaghfiroh Rahayu (Indonesia)

Mustaghfiroh Rahayu is a doctoral student at Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her dissertation topic is on Multiculturalism and Women's rights dilemma. She earned two masters on religious studies; first is from Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, Gadjah Mada University (2005) and second is from Florida International University, Miami, USA (2008). Right after her return from USA, she joined her alma mater as researcher and program assistant for Indonesia Pluralism Knowledge Programme (http://crcs.ugm.ac.id/pluralism/news). She, with other colleagues, is an author of Annual Report of Religious Life in Indonesia since 2008 (http://crcs.ugm.ac.id/annualreport) especially on public policy part. She also serves as one of chairpersons of Fatayat NU provincial chapter of Yogyakarta. Fatayat NU is a young female wing of NU (Nahdlatul Ulama), the largest religious mass organization in Indonesia. Her article "Akomodasi Transformatif: Tawaran atas Pengelolaan Keragaman dan Hak-hak Perempuan" (Transformative Accommodation: An Alternative to a Dilemma of Managing Diversity and Women's Rights) is published in a book Pluralisme Kewargaan; Arah Baru Politik Keragaman di Indonesia (Civic Pluralism: A New Direction to Politics of Diversity in Indonesi), Bandung: Mizan & CRCS, 2011.

Fazlul Rahman (Indonesia)

Fazlul Rahman is a Researcher in Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Graduate School of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He got his Master of Religion from the same Graduate School. He earned his Licence (Lc) from Faculty of Da'wa and Islamic Cultures Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt. He did his Master thesis on the authority of Dai (Muslim preacher) in cyberspace. His main interests are religion communication, and cyber culture. Currently, he is planning on doing his Ph.D research on New Muslim Youth Generation Facing New Media.

Maja Šoštarić (Croatia)

Maja Šoštarić was born in Slavonski Brod (Croatia) and is currently working in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as a lead researcher for Impunity Watch on a project that deals with assessing and improving gender-sensitivity of approaches to transitional justice. Her work consists in reviewing legislation and documents related to truth, justice, reparations and institutional reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, interviewing key stakeholders in the field of transitional justice as well as working closely with various categories of war victims (camp inmates, victims of war rape, IDPs and refugees, families of the missing persons, etc.). Prior to that, Maja interned and worked in Geneva (Permanent Representation of the Order of Malta to the United Nations), Brussels (Center for European Policy Studies and International Crisis Group) and Sarajevo (International Crisis Group and Geneva Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces). Moreover, she is a standing correspondent for the American website Balkanalysis.com, writing on human rights and politics in the Balkans, notably Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Maja holds a PhD with distinction in Political Science from the University of Vienna (2009), a Diploma in International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (2008) and an MA in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (2007). Her research interests include transitional justice and human rights, international development, as well as religion and conflict.

Husni Mubarak Toha (Indonesia)

Husni Mubarak is currently researcher and project coordinator for Police and Religious Freedom Project at Paramadina Foundation, Indonesia. He is interested in religion, democratic policing and democracy. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the Department of Theology and Philosophy, Islamic State University (UIN), Syarif Hidayatullah, Indonesia. Beside at national daily newspaper such as Koran Tempo, he also has published his papers in the Journal of Harmoni and Bimas Islam (in Bahasa). With other researcher, he has published Kontroversi Gereja di Jakarta [Church Controversy in Jakarta] (2011) and Mengelola Keragaman: Pemolisian Kebebasan Beragama di Indonesia [Managing the Diversity: Policing Religious Freedom in Indonesia] (2012).

David N. Tshimba (Democratic Republic of Congo / Uganda)

David Tshimba is a Great Lakes of Africa region dweller, having chiefly lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya. He is currently completing his Master's Degree from a graduate programme of Sustainable Peace and Conflict Management in the Department of Good Governance and Peace Studies, East African School of Diplomacy, Good governance and International Studies, at Uganda Martyrs University. David also holds a Bachelor's degree (Honours) in Ethics and Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University. He is a founding member of a not-for-profit regional youth for integrity-and-peace initiative, Friends of the Great Lakes of Africa and volunteers with Global Peace Festival Foundation, Uganda Chapter.

Roska Vrgova (Macedonia)

Roska Vrgova currently lives in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) where she is enrolled in postgraduate program in Human Rights and Democracy in SEE within the University of Sarajevo/ University of Bologna. Her previous experience includes various positions in local and international organizations in projects related to civil society and education. She also gives trainings in intercultural leadership and communication (for expats), and conflict resolution on organizational level. Her research interests are related to ethnopolitics, culture, religion and peacebuilding; at the moment she is writing her master's thesis, on electoral engineering as a tool for conflict management, in context of contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. She loves "freezing" part of people's soul in photographs, and in words. She is amazed by the immeasurable value, revealed in every person's life stories.

Zainal Abidin Bagir (Indonesia)

Bagir is the Director of the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), a Master's program at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University (GMU), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He was appointed asIndonesian Associate for UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific (associated with the Chair at Monash University, Australia) and currently is the Indonesian Regional Coordinator for the Pluralism Knowledge Programme, a collaboration between the academic centers in Netherlands, India, Indonesia and Uganda. The program includes publication of Annual Report on Religious Life in Indonesia since 2008. Other publication includes a research on the four decades of interreligious dialogue in Indonesia. At CRCS he teaches Academic Study of Religion, and Religious Diversity and Democracy. His other interest is religion and contemporary issues, with special attention to religion and science in the Muslim world. In 2006 he edited Science and Religion in the Post-colonial World: Interfaith Perspectives (Australasian Theological Forum Press), and two books in Indonesian language on a similar subject.

Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin (Indonesia)

Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin was born in 1963. She was graduated in State Institute of Islamic Studies, Yogyakarta. She got her Master of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Antropology at The faculty of Humanities in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is actually Lecturer of Sociology at the Faculty of Islamic law, State Islamic university, Yogyakarta. She was Director of Center for Women Studies in the same university. She is also researcher on gender and reproductive health. In the Population Studies Center, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

Anver M. Emon (United States of America / Canada)

A native Californian, Anver M. Emon joined the Faculty of Law in 2005 and is Associate Professor of Law. Professor Emon's research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim world.  His general academic interests include medieval intellectual and religious history; law and religion; legal history; and legal philosophy. He teaches Tort Law and offers specialized seminars on Islamic legal history, gender and Islamic law, and law and religion. Additionally, he supervises graduate students in advanced research in Islamic law and history. The author of Islamic Natural Law Theories (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law(Oxford University Press, 2012), Professor Emon is a general editor of the Oxford Islamic Legal Studies Series, the founding editor in chief of Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and sits on the editorial board of The Journal of Law and Religion.

Robert W. Hefner (United States of America)

Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University.  Hefner has conducted research on Muslim culture, politics, and education since the mid-1980s, with a special focus on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.  He has directed some 16 major research projects, organized 13 international conferences, and authored or edited 16 books, the most recent of which is Sharia Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (2011).  During 2009-2010, Hefner served as the elected president of the Association for Asian Studies.

Judith Lim (Indonesia)

Judith Lim was born in Semarang Central Java on the 17th of June 1960. She was graduated from Satya Wacana Christian University in the Department of Theology. She got Master from the same University. She is active in the YMCA organization where actually she serves as treasurer for the YMCA of Yogyakarta, and president of Yogyakarta YWCA. She is also active in Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologian (EATWOT) organization in Asia where she in charge for women commission, and in Indonesia she will soon be outgoing National Coordinator. She was also member of Civil Society Movement for Culture of Peace for Asia Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (APAY) and active as gender committee in Asia Pacific Region.

Sri Margana (Indonesia)

Sri Margana was born in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia, on 15 October 1969. He obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Department of History, The Faculty of Humanities, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, in 1995 and 2001. Since 1998 he has been working as lecturer at the Department of History, at the same university. In 2001 he joined The Advanced Master program of CNWS, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, within the framework of TANAP (Towards a New Age of Partnership) project. In 2003 he conducted his doctoral research at Leiden University within the same framework. His special interest is socio-political history of Java in the pre-colonial and colonial periods. He finished his PhD in 2007. Now he is working is lecturer in the Department of History, The Faculty of Humanities, Gadjah Mada University.

Najiyah Martiam (Indonesia)

She currently serves as the coordinator of public education in the master program of Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) of Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. She obtained her Master degree in religious studies from the center and her bachelor degree from food technology department of the same university. Previously she worked in an NGO concerns on Reproductive Health, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention as program coordinator of media and training development, and at the same as freelance religion tour guide in a traveler café in Yogyakarta. Her main interest topics are Sufism and Art, gender and spirituality, and science and religion.

David W. Montgomery (United States of America)

Montgomery has conducted long-term anthropological field research in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Albania, and his work focuses on the transmission of religious and cultural knowledge, expressions of everyday religious life, and social aspects of religious change in Central Asia and the Balkans. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh; has held Postdoctoral Fellowships in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at Emory University and the University of Notre Dame; worked as a Legislative Assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives; and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer.

Schapiro was an attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, for over 35 years, representing individual clients and governmental agencies in particular in the field of housing and urban development. He served as a Board Member for 20 years and President of the Board of Camp Ramah in New England for 7 years - a Jewish educational institution under the supervision of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He now holds the position of the General Counsel for a mutual fund located in Washington, DC, that invest union pension funds and pension monies from public employee pension plans in housing projects across the United States. The program has multiple objectives notably including securing a competitive return on investment, facilitating the construction and/or rehabilitation of affordable housing for low and moderate income and middle class working families and creating jobs for union workers. Since 2007 he has worked with the ISSRPL in developing the facilitation components of the school.

Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs there. He has lived and taught at universities in the United States, in Israel, and in Hungary where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990-1992. He lived close to twenty years in Israel where he was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970s. His books include The Idea of Civil Society (Free Press, 1992), Inner-worldly Individualism (Transaction Press, 1994), The Problem of Trust (Princeton University Press, 1997), Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self and Transcendence (Princeton University Press, 2000) with Mark Lichbach, Market and Community (Penn State University Press, 2000), Modest Claims: Dialogues and Essays on Tolerance and Tradition (Notre Dame University Press, 2004) and with Robert Weller, Michael Puett and Bennett Simon, Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (Oxford University Press, 2008). His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

Cok Sawitri (Indonesia)

Cok Sawitri was born in Sidemen, Karangasem, Bali, on September 1st, 1968. She lives in Denpasar, Bali. Mid-2006, she collaborated with Dean Moss of New York Dance Theater in one important performace. As a theater activist, Cok has also written several articles, poems, short stories and is also active in the social cultural activities as a founder of Partners Love Bali Women's Forum in 1997 and Group Write ngayah in the year 1989. Cok was listed as one of the advisory councils for The Village Parahyang Pekraman or village in Sidemen, Ubud, Bali. She is also active in several theater organizations in Bali.

Marthen Tahun (Indonesia)

Marthen Tahun completed his M.A from the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), a graduate School of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2007. His master thesis analyzes the aspect of religion in the Ambon Conflict, 1999-2002. In 2008-2010 he joined the American Friends Service Community (AFSC) Indonesia for a social integration project among local people in West Timor (Indonesia) and the ex-refugees groups from East Timor (the former Rimor Leste) living in the West Timor. Then he became a research staff member of CRCS Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia since 2010. At the moment Marthen is a member of the coordinating team for a research of the growing Pentecostal Charismatic movement in Indonesia, a two years research in five different cities in Indonesia.

Wening Udasmoro (Indonesia)

Wening Udasmoro received her PhD in Gender Studies from University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2005. She obtained her Master degree in the same field from the same university. Previously, she obtained a Master degree in literature and got her undergraduate degree in French literature from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Currently, Wening Udasmoro is the Associate Director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, an International PhD program organized by three universities; Gadjah Mada University, Sunan Kalijaga Islamic State University and Duta Wacana Christian University. She also teaches in several Master and Doctorate programs at Gadjah Mada University, such as in the Department of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies and Anthropology. Her main interest of research is on gender studies, religion and identity, politics of reproduction and critical discourse analysis.

Rahel Wasserfall (United States of America / France)

Wasserfall is an anthropologist with a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with extensive experience in her field in three different continents. She has published widely on gender issues and is the editor of Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law (UPNE, 1999). After moving to Boston in 1996, Wasserfall shifted her interest to Jewish education and evaluation studies. She was a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University and Special Coordinator at Boston's Jewish Community Day School, in which capacity she directed the Association of Independent School of New England (AISNE) accreditation process. She also co-authored a study on Jewish pluralism in a local Jewish day school. She has broad expertise in qualitative evaluation and is the yearly evaluator of the International Summer School on Religion in Public Life (ISSRPL). In the last ten years Wasserfall has evaluated educational programs in a variety of complex multilingual and cross-cultural settings. Among other assignments, she has recently served as director of evaluation at the Center for the Advancement of Hebrew Teaching and Learning Inc. and senior research associate at Education Matters, Inc. and the Mandel Center for Jewish Education at Brandeis. At the ISSRPL she has also created programming on women/gender in the different religions. In September 2012, she returned to the WSRC to work on a book about her nine years of evaluating the ISSRPL. Her work in the world of evaluation focuses on a pragmatic approach to knowledge that continually asks, "Knowledge for whom and for which purposes?" Wasserfall is also a committed yoga practitioner and teacher, having completed teacher training in the Iyengar tradition. I believe that my interest in reflexivity, as a tool and a method for acquiring knowledge in cross cultural settings, will be sharpened by the work done at CSGSS.