Dr. Jill Carroll is the associate director for the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University, as well as an associate adjunct professor in religious studies. Well-respected for her work promoting religious tolerance and for her thorough understanding of Gulen’s ideals, Carroll wrote A Dialogue of Civilizations following her numerous trips to Turkey where she had the opportunity to visit schools and institutions founded by the people in the Gulen movement. She currently resides in Houston, Texas..