Dr. Joseph J. Kaminski is a Research Associate and Symposium Coordinator at the Ummatics Institute. He received his PhD in Political Science from Purdue University in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of 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 Reappraisal (Routledge, 2021). A more complete list of his academic outputs can be found at: https://ir.ius.edu.ba/people/joseph-jon-kaminski