Anthony M. Messina is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and specializes on the politics of ethnicity, race and immigration in Western Europe.  He is the author of Race and Party Competition in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1989) and The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007), the editor of West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century: A Continuing Quandary for States and Societies (Praeger, 2002), and the co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood, 1992), The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics and Policy (Lynne Rienner, 2006) and The Year of the Euro: The Social and Political Import of Europe's Common Currency (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).  His articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journal, The Review of Politics, West European Politics, World Politics, and other scholarly journals and anthologies.  He is currently collaborating with Gallya Lahav on a series of articles founded on two surveys (1993 and 2004) of Member of European Parliament opinion on immigration-related issues.

Jeffrey Ian Ross is an Associate Professor in the Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Policy, and a Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. He has researched, written, and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, violent crime, corrections, and policing for over two decades.  Ross' work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular outlets. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of eleven books including most recently Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Peter Lang, 2006), and Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System (Paradigm Publishers, 2006).  Ross is a respected and frequent source of scholarly and scientific information for local, regional, national and international news media including interviews with newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. From 1995-1998, Ross was a social science analyst with the National Institute of Justice, a Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2003, he was awarded the University of Baltimore's Distinguished Chair in Research Award. In 1986 Ross was the lead expert witness for the Senate of Canada's Special Committee on Terrorism and Public Safety. During that time period he developed ATIC, the first data base on terrorism in Canada.

Erik Bleich is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont.  His interests lie in the fields of immigration, integration, multiculturalism, race, ethnicity, religion and policymaking in Western Europe.  He has published articles on these topics in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Theory and Society, and French Politics, Culture & Society and is the author of Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  His article “Hate Crime Policy in Western Europe” is forthcoming in the American Behavioral Scientist and he is currently writing on comparative hate crime statistics and on state responses to ethnic, racial and religious violence in Europe and the United States.  He has also been an invited speaker at the Runnymede Trust’s national “Preventing Racist Violence Conference” in Britain and has written op-ed articles for newspapers such as The Guardian and European Voice.