Peter Althouse (Ph.D. University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto) is Professor of Religion and Theology at Southeastern University in Florida. Publications include Catch the Fire: Soaking Prayer and Charismatic Renewal (Northern Illinois University Press); Spirit of the Last Days: Pentecostal Eschatology in Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann (T&T Clark); The Ideological Development of “Power” in Early American Pentecostalism (Edwin Mellen Press); Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement (Brill); and Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies (Pickwick Press).
Will Boone (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an ethnomusicologist who researches sound and dance in African American pentecostal worship. His work appears in the volume Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity, and Experience (Ashgate, 2013) and in several entries in the Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.).
Mark Evans (Ph.D. Macquarie University) is Head of the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. He previously served as Head of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University from 2008–14. He is the coeditor of Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture and author of the book Open Up the Doors: Music in the Modern Church (Equinox, 2006).
Ryan R. Gladwin (Ph.D. University of Edinburgh) is Assistant Professor of Christian Social Ministry at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He has published work and presented papers on social ethics, practical theology, pentecostalism, and Latin American and Latino/a theology and religion. He is currently working on a monograph on Latin American ecclesiology and social ethics.
Monique M. Ingalls (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Church Music at Baylor University. Published in the fields of ethnomusicology, media studies, hymnology, and religious studies, she is coeditor of Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity, and Experience (Ashgate, 2013). She is also cofounder of the Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference and its affiliated Congregational Music Studies Network.
Birgitta J. Johnson (Ph.D. UCLA) is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of South Carolina. Her primary areas of research are African American music and music of the African diaspora in relation to the African musical continuum, musical change, identity, converging movements, and shared traditions. She is currently writing a book manuscript based on her ethnographic research of music, tradition, and contemporary liturgical worship trends entitled “Worship Waves, Navigating Identities: Music in the Black Church at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.”
Jean Ngoya Kidula (Ph.D. UCLA) is Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Her publications include articles on Kenyan ritual and religious folk and popular music, and on musicians in the African Academy. She has also written on gospel music in North America and Africa. She is a coauthor of Music in the Life of the African Church (2008). Her latest monograph, Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song (2013), has won the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize from the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Miranda Klaver (Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit [VU] Amsterdam) is Assistant Professor of Religion and Media at the VU University Amsterdam. Trained as an anthropologist and theologian, she has published on Dutch evangelicalism and pentecostalism. Her research focuses on the interaction between transnational evangelical/pentecostal movements and Dutch Protestantism, and on the rise of transnational evangelical/pentecostal churches in global cities.
Andrew Mall (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Visiting Assistant Academic Specialist in the Department of Music at Northeastern University in Boston. His research focuses on underground popular music and the contemporary Christian music recording industry. He has presented several papers at annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US) and is a contributor to the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology.
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Blending approaches drawn from anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore studies, she researches the proliferation of pentecostalism in Native North America, specifically as it gains voice in expressive form at Navajo-led tent revivals. Her manuscript “Oodlání Resonance” is based on extensive ethnographic work with a Navajo-speaking, Navajo-led independent pentecostal church located in northwestern New Mexico and is currently under contract with the University of Nebraska Press.
Andrew M. McCoy (Ph.D. University of St. Andrews) is Director of the Center for Ministry Studies and Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has also previously served as a scholar-in-residence with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is currently researching the relationship between congregational worship practices and vocational discernment.
Martijn Oosterbaan (Ph.D. University of Amsterdam) is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He has published on pentecostalism and media in Brazil and Europe. His research focuses on religious transformations in Brazil as a result of the widespread use of mass media and on Brazilian migration to Europe in relation to transnationalism, religion, and (new) media. Currently, he is codirecting a research program on the “popular culture of illegality,” which focuses on the music, representation, and material culture of criminal organizations in Latin America; he is also codirecting a research program on women’s soccer in the Netherlands. In both programs, Oosterbaan investigates contemporary intersections of religion and bodily culture.
Dave Perkins (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University) is Associate Director of the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture Program in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. He began his scholarly career after a twenty-five-year career in the music industry. As a guitarist for hire, Perkins has built relationships through recording and live performance with many iconic American performers. He had a long tenure in the contemporary Christian music industry, where, as a songwriter, his songs were recorded by many notable artists and, as a record producer and session musician, he participated on numerous significant albums.
Wen Reagan is a Ph.D. candidate and James B. Duke Fellow at Duke University. He is currently writing a dissertation on the cultural history of contemporary worship music in America. Reagan also serves as the worship director at Christ Community Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and as an artist for Cardiphonia, a collaboration of songwriters committed to revitalizing traditional hymnody in new musical settings for the benefit of the church.
Tanya Riches holds an M.Phil. from Australian Catholic University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. The author of worship songs including “Jesus, What a Beautiful Name,” she has led worship internationally, releasing her first solo worship album, Grace, in 2012. She is originally from Australia’s Hillsong Church, where she directed choir and sang, as well as administrated Hillsong’s youth band, United Live, from 1996 to 2003.
Michael Webb (Ph.D. Wesleyan University) is an ethnomusicologist and Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Music Education Unit in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney. Webb is a coauthor of the 2011 volume Music in Pacific Island Cultures, part of Oxford University Press’s Global Music Series, and is currently completing a book on music and colonial culture, from 1875 to 1975, in the port town of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Since 2008, his research has concentrated on historical and contemporary aspects of Christian hymnody in urban Papua New Guinea and rural Vanuatu. He is also currently working on a film documenting a gospel hymn and indigenous dance tradition in the Maskelyne Islands, Vanuatu.
Michael Wilkinson (Ph.D. University of Ottawa) is Professor of Sociology at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. His publications include The Spirit Said Go: Pentecostal Immigrants in Canada (Peter Lang); Canadian Pentecostalism: Transition and Transformation (McGill-Queen’s University Press); Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement (Brill); A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action in North America (Pickwick Press); Global Pentecostal Movements: Migration, Mission, and Public Religion (Brill); and Catch the Fire: Soaking Prayer and Charismatic Renewal (Northern Illinois University Press).
Amos Yong (Ph.D. Boston University) is Professor of Theology and Mission and Director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen volumes, many of them on pentecostal-charismatic Christianity.