Hillary Kaell is Associate Professor in the School of Religious Studies and Department of Anthropology at McGill University, where she holds a William Dawson Research Chair. Her latest monograph, Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States (Princeton, 2020), won the 2021 Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History. Since 2021, she has also directed TERA (technology/ecology/religion/art), an interdisciplinary collective of scholars and artists. TERA collaborations include The Artful Naturalist, an experimental book forthcoming with McGill-Queens University Press, and a 2026 art exhibit in the Redpath Natural History Museum. Her current research projects explore, respectively, the economics of heritage churches in Quebec, and the relationship between spirits, humans, and other species in the Outer Banks barrier islands of North Carolina.

Lerone A. Martin is the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor in Religious Studies, African & African American Studies, and The Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. He also serves as the Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and Senior Editor of the Institute’s Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project. His latest book, Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr. chronicles the overlooked adolescence and calling of Martin Luther King Jr. and will be published by HarperCollins in May 2026. He is also the author of The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism and Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Making of Modern African American Religion.