Who We Are
Advisory Board
Advisory Board Members
Reza Aslan
Professor Creative Writing, UC Riverside
John M. Barry
Author, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Kit Bigelow
Advisory Board at Religious Freedom Institute
Ann D. Braude
Director, Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School
Catherine Brekus
Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School
David F. Holland
John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School
Diana Butler Bass
American Historian of Christianity
Roger Finke
Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies, and International Affairs, The Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Farr
President Emeritus, Religious Freedom Institute
Thomas S. Kidd
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University
Spencer Fluhman
Associate Professor History, Brigham Young University
Hannah Smith
Associate Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Cherie Harder
President at The Trinity Forum
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Linford D. Fisher
Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Benjamin Hertzberg
Senior Principal–Research, Data, & Analytics Gartner Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion
Paul Harvey
Professor of History, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Joshua Goode
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History, Claremont Graduate University
Dr. Andrew Murphy
Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan
Brian J. Grim
Founder and President, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation
Philip Goff
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Philip Goldberg
Author, Speaker and Religious Counselor
Dr. Charles Haynes
Senior Fellow for Religious Freedom
Peter Thuesen
Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Dr. Diane L. Moore
Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education, Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Suzanne Morgan
Sacred Space Ambassador, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell
Patrick Clendened Chair in Women’s & Gender History and Director, Jewish Studies Program, American University
Brad Hirschfield
President, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Dr. Azza Karam
Professor, Religion and Development, Vrij Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
Eric Rassbach
Vice President and Senior Counsel, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Anthony Picarello, Jr.
Executive Director, St. John Paul II National Shrine
Dr. Andrew Preston
Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Cambridge
Gary P. Zola
Emeritus Executive Director, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives; Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience and Reform Jewish History, Hebrew Union College
Asma T. Uddin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic University of America
Dr. Josh Perelman
Independent Cultural Institutions Consultant
Sherif Girgis
Author & Lawyer, Associate, Jones Day
Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
David Daniels III
Professor of Church History, McCormick Theological Seminary
John Turner
Professor of Religious Studies and History, George Mason University
Marc Stern
Associate General Counsel, American Jewish Committee
Dr. Denise Spellberg
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Lauren Turek
Assistant Professor of History and Director of Museum Studies, Trinity University
Douglas Laycock
Professor of Law and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Tammi J. Schneider
Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Maria Mazzenga
Curator, American Catholic History Collections Special Collections, University Libraries, The Catholic University of America
Dr. Eric Lewis Williams
Director of the Office of Black Church Studies; Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School
Sara Georgini
Historian and Series Editor, The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Robert Wilson-Black
Fundraising Consultant
Mark Noll
Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
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Suhag Shukla
Executive Director, Hindu American Foundation
Tisa Wenger
Associate Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
Marc Dollinger
Professor of Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University; author, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance In The 1960s
Paul Louis Metzger
Professor of Theology & Culture, Multnomah University & Seminary; Director of The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins
Nichole Phillips
Associate Professor in the Practice of Sociology of Religion and Culture; Director of the Black Church Studies Program, Emory University's Candler School of Theology
Christel Manning
Professor of Religious Studies, Sacred Heart University.
Annette Marie Lantos Tillemann-Dick
Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights
Barry Hankins
Professor of History, Baylor University; Editor, Journal of Church and State
Kathleen Cummings
Professor of History and American Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Adam Kissel
Senior Fellow, Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy
Matthew Petersen
Director, NERA Economic Consulting
Grace Yukitch
Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University
Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Professor and the inaugural V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, The University of Iowa
Mark David Hall
Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics George Fox University
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate
Executive Director, The Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life; Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College
Jace Weaver
Franklin Professor of Religion and Native American Studies, University of Georgia
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
John Shook
Professor of Philosophy in D.C. and staff advisor, American Humanist Association
Joel Hall
CEO, Unrivaled
Rev. Dr. David Latimore
Director, Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
Steven K. Green
Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies, Willamette University
Stephen J. Lind
Associate Professor, USC Marshall School of Business
Peter S. Scholz
Managing Director Woodvale Realty Partners
Derek Hicks
Founding Director of The Center for Research, Engagement and Collaboration in African American Life (RECAAL) and Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, Wake Forest Universty School of Divinity
Alex J. Luchenitser
Associate Vice President & Associate Legal Director Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Randall Balmer
John Phillips Professor in Religion, Dartmouth College
Joseph Stuart
Assistant Professor of History Brigham Young University
Duncan Ryuken Williams
Professor of Religion and American Studies & Ethnicity, Director of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, University of Southern California
Kiran Kaur Gill
Executive Director SALDEF
Tarunjit Singh Butalia
Executive Director of Religions for Peace and Founding Trustee of Sikh Council for Interfaith Relations
Grant Wacker
Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History, Duke Divinity School