Jack N. Lightstone is professor emeritus of history at Brock University (St. Catharines, Niagara Region), where he also served as president and vice chancellor, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion at Concordia University (Montreal). He has had a forty-six-year-long career that combined teaching and research in the history and the social-scientific study of religion in society with senior university administration. His most recent publication with Cascade Books is In the Seat of Moses (2020).