Dr. Joseph J. Kaminski is a Research Associate and Symposium Coordinator at the Imatics Institute. He received his PhD in Political Science from Purdue University in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor of both Political Science and International Relations at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His current research interests include religion and politics, comparative political theory, and new approaches to Islamic public reason. He is also the author of The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization (Palgrave, 2017) and Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2021). A more complete list of his scholarly output can be found here: https://ir.ius.edu.ba/people/joseph-jon-kaminski