Contributors of Articles

Dia Anagnostou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Panteion University of Social Sciences, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. Her research focuses on human rights and international courts, as well as on the mobilization of migrants and minorities from a socio-legal perspective. Her articles have appeared in journals such as West European Politics, Southeast European Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and European Journal of International Law, among others. She is editor and co-author of Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change: Legal Mobilisation in the Multi-Level European System (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014).

Liviu Andreescu is Professor of Public Policy at the Faculty of Administration and Business, the University of Bucharest. His research interests span a gamut of policy issues, from church–state relations in the postcommunist world (including the role of the European Court of Human Rights), to higher education and research policy, to the methodology of strategic planning.

Pasquale Annicchino is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and collaborated to the Grassrootmobilise project at ELIAMEP. His last publication is Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model (Routledge, 2017).

Effie Fokas is Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Principal Investigator of an ERC-funded project on the European Court of Human Rights religion-related case law (Grassrootsmobilise), and Research Associate of the LSE Hellenic Observatory. She is co-editor of Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence (with Aziz Al-Azmeh) and co-author of Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations (with Peter Berger and Grace Davie).

Alberta Giorgi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergamo. Her research interests focus on religion and politics. Among her recent publications: European Culture Wars and the Italian Case: Which Side Are You On? (with L. Ozzano, Routledge, 2016) and Religion and local politics in Southern Europe: A research agenda (with X. Itçaina, Religion, State and Society, 2016).

Margarita Markoviti is a political scientist, currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the IE School of International Relations (Madrid) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European Research Council project titled “Grassrootsmobilise,” based at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (Athens). She received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science; her M.Sc. from Sciences Po, Paris; and a B.A. from King's College London. Her teaching and publications center around politics and religion, religion and national identity, the European Court of Human Rights and religious pluralism, Europeanisation, and comparative European politics.

Ceren Özgül is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of political and legal anthropology. She is a Research Fellow at European Research Council funded Grassrootsmobilise research programme [338463] and visiting research scholar at New York University.

Mihai Popa received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg. He is currently an Associate Researcher in the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and a Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. His ongoing research scrutinizes the relations between religion, politics, and citizenship in Romania and at the level of the European Union.