Melani McAlister is Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University. A cultural historian focused on the US in the world, she has recently published The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals, an expansive study of evangelical internationalism since 1960 (Oxford, 2018). She is also co-editor of volume 4 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of America and the World. Her other books are Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East (Univ. of California, 2005, o. 2001), and Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States (2008), co-edited with R. Marie Griffith. She is recipient of an NEH fellowship, as well as fellowships from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the editorial boards of Modern American History, Diplomatic History, and American Quarterly, and several committees of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She has written for a wide variety of scholarly journals and general audience publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Nation. Her next project is a cultural and affective history of US humanitarianism in the Cold War.