Edward E. Curtis IV is professor of religious studies, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts, and adjunct professor of American studies and Africana studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (2009) and Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest (2022).