Dr. Goodwin is the nerd-in-chief at Feral Nerd Consulting. She is an editorial consultant at Religion Dispatches and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project.

Her research centers on race, religion, gender/sexuality, and politics in what's now the United States. Her first book, Abusing Religion: Religious Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions is available through Rutgers. Her next project is Cults Inc.: The Business of Bad Religion.

She’s a professional explainer of why you should care about religion, even if you’re not religious yourself. (Often she will keep explaining even after you have asked her to stop.) 

Dr. Morgenstein Fuerst is an associate professor of Religion and the director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont.

Her formal expertise is in Islam in South Asia, racialization of Muslims, and global histories of imperialism. Her first book, Indian Muslim Minorities & the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad, is available through Bloomsbury. She is also co-editor of Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst (Equinox).

She’s an academic mama with a long last name who enjoys killing joy for great justice. And funsies.