The participants:
- Charles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- Christopher Colmo is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Il.
- Aaron French received his PhD in The Study of Religion from the University of California, Davis.
- Yosra Garmi obtained her PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon by a dissertation on al-Fârâbî.
- Aleksandra Konarzewska studied philosophy, history, religious studies, and literary studies in Warsaw, Berlin, Tübingen (PhD 2019), and Yale.
- Gregory A. McBrayer received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Ashland University, where he is also director of the Core Curriculum.
- Rasoul Namazi is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University, China and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Global Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
- Karen Taliaferro (Ph.D. Government, Georgetown University) is an assistant professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.