Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the tensions that arise within contemporary liberal and democratic theory, and between theory and practice. He is also the author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State (Johns Hopkins, 1994), Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship (Johns Hopkins, 2000), and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Right and Diversity (Cambridge, 2005). Spinner-Halev has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, also at Hebrew University. You can find more information about Spinner-Halev at http://spinhalev.web.unc.edu.