Sean Gray Editor

Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, USA. His research examines minority political behavior and comparative immigration policy. He is the author of Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (2010) and The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality (2016). Sean Gray is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, USA. His dissertation and current book project, Democracy and Silence, theorizes the conditions under which silence can be a form of political engagement. His research and teaching interests include contemporary democratic theory, theories of the welfare state, deliberation, and new forms of political representation.