Jeffry R. Halverson is an associate professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University (SC). Previously, he served as an assistant research professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University (Tempe).

Halverson is the author of Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), the lead author of Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge 2017), and the author of Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam (Potomac, 2012). He has also published in academic journals, including The Muslim World, The Journal of Communication, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Politics & Religion, and Media War & Conflict.

His debut novel, The Mural, was published in 2014.