Mikhail Sergeev (born 1960) - Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion (1997, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA); historian of religion, philosopher, writer. Sergeev's books and articles have been published in the United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan. Sergeev has taught at various universities and colleges in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Now he teaches the history of religion, philosophy, and art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Sergeev has authored more than two hundred scholarly, literary, and journalistic articles published in Russian and American journals. He is also the author and contributing editor of thirteen books, including Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Bahá'í Faith (Brill, 2015) and his latest Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology (Brill, 2020).