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Shana Sippy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chair of Religion and Asian Studies at Centre College. Her book Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Politics of Longing in North America will be released by New York University Press in August/September 2027. She is Co-director of ReligionsMN, housed at Carleton College, and a founding member of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (a.k.a. the Auntylectuals). Her scholarship examines the articulation and politics of identity and the making of ethnoreligious subjectivities and communities in modernity. She explores the relationships between religion, race, sexuality, gender, colonialism, class, nationalism, violence, social movements, and globalization, considering the ethical implications that emerge from those intersections. Her second book "Together Forever": Strange and Storied Solidarities Between Hindus and Jews, India and Israel focuses on the alliances between Jews and Hindus, Israel and India, looking specifically at the "spiritual glue" (in the words of to quote Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee) that groups seek to forge in order to cement ethnonationliast political alliances. She also worked to produce a series of four documentary shorts, entitled Sacred Minnesota in collaboration with Michael McNally, Twin Cities Public Television and the Minnesota Humanities Center. She received her A.B. in history and religion at Barnard College, Master’s Degrees at Harvard and Columbia, and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She co-founded the Underrepresented Faculty Council (UFC) at Centre College with Dina Badie.​
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Dina Badie, Ph.D. 
​Badie is a consultant working on issues of Diversity , Equity and Inclusion. Until 2023, Badie was Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at Centre College. Her primary teaching and research interests focus on the Middle East, Human Security, and American Foreign Policy in critical perspective. Her book, After Saddam: American Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Secularism in the Middle East investigates U.S. conduct in the 2003 Iraq War and its political, social, and human consequences. Her current research continues to investigate the impacts of American Foreign Policy on human security, particularly in the Middle East and the Global South. She is also working on issues of epistemic violence, structural violence, and the politics of exclusion in the context of the Israeli-Palestine conflict both in academic and activist spaces, including with the Palestinian Feminist Collective. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Connecticut. She co-founded the Underrepresented Faculty Council  (UFC) at Centre College with Shana Sippy.
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​Chelsea Ebin, Ph.D.
Ebin is now an Assistant Professor of Politics as Drew University. Until 2024, Ebin was Assistant Professor of Politics at Centre College where she teaches courses in public law and political theory. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Her research is broadly situated within the field of American Political Development and focuses on Right-wing coalition-building and institutional development.​ She is currently working on her monograph, Prefiguring the Past: Conservative Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building on the Right (1965-1985), which will be published by the University Press of Kansas. Her book examines how conservative Catholics and Protestants formed an enduring coalition and mobilized throughout the latter half of the twenty-first century, as well as how race and gender played into the construction of a conservative Christian identity that was premised on victimhood and to look more closely at how the Religious Right utilized prefigurative politics. She is co-editor with A.di Branco and E. Carian of Male Supremacism in the United States: From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right, which was just published by Routledge in 2021. She received her Ph.D. and Master's degree in Politics from the New School for Social Research in New York City and her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.  She was co-founder with Marc Dumont and Mykol Hamilton of the Queer Faculty and Staff Caucus at Centre College.