Shirvin Zeinalzadeh is an expert in security, conflict and diplomacy, Iran and the Middle East. His current award-winning work looks at collective action, and what pushes protestors to move from 'Tweets to Streets'.

Tezcür studies politics of social identity with a focus on how ethnic and religious affiliations motivate and shape collective action at popular levels.

Tanvir Ahmed works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Islam with an eye toward critical historiography, rebellion, and thaumaturgy.

Carolina Mendoza-Ahmed is a scholar of Islam as it is imagined through the Hispanophone world, especially via contact with Arabic and Persian.