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
Jamil Drake
Assistant Professor of African American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
Roger Finke
Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies, and International Affairs, The Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Farr
President, Religious Freedom Institute
W. Cole Durham, Jr.
Founding Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Hannah Smith
Senior Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Spencer Fluhman
Executive Director, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
Linford D. Fisher
Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Cherie Harder
President at The Trinity Forum
Paul Harvey
Professor of History, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Thomas S. Kidd
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University
Joshua Goode
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History, Claremont Graduate University
Brian J. Grim
Founder and President, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation
Philip Goff
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Dr. Andrew Murphy
Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan
Dr. Charles Haynes
Senior Fellow for Religious Freedom
Benjamin Hertzberg
Senior Principal–Research, Data, & Analytics Gartner Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion
Peter Thuesen
Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Suzanne Morgan
Sacred Space Ambassador, Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
Brett Scharffs
Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies and Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU
Brad Hirschfield
President, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Philip Goldberg
Author, Speaker and Religious Counselor
Dr. Azza Karam
Secretary General, Religions for Peace International
Anthony Picarello, Jr.
Associate General Secretary & General Counsel, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Dr. Diane L. Moore
Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education, Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Andrew Preston
Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Cambridge
Asma T. Uddin
Director of Strategy, The Center for Islam and Religious Freedom
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell
Patrick Clendened Chair in Women’s & Gender History and Director, Jewish Studies Program, American University
Dr. Josh Perelman
Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections, National Museum of American Jewish History
Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Eric Rassbach
Deputy General Counsel, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
David Daniels III
Professor of Church History, McCormick Theological Seminary
Marc Stern
Associate General Counsel, American Jewish Committee
Gary P. Zola
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
Dr. Denise Spellberg
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Douglas Laycock
Professor of Law and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Sherif Girgis
Author & Lawyer, Associate, Jones Day
Tammi J. Schneider
Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Dr. Eric Lewis Williams
Curator of Religion, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture
John Turner
Professor of Religious Studies and History, George Mason University
Robert Wilson-Black
Fundraising Consultant
Dr. Harry Stout
Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History, Yale University
Suhag Shukla
Executive Director, Hindu American Foundation
Tisa Wenger
Associate Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School
Dr. Lauren Turek
Assistant Professor of History and Director of Museum Studies, Trinity University
Sara Georgini
Historian and Series Editor, The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Paul Louis Metzger
Professor of Theology & Culture, Multnomah University & Seminary; Director of The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins
Mark Noll
Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
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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
Marc Dollinger
Professor of Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University; author, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance In The 1960s
Maria Mazzenga
Curator, American Catholic History Collections Special Collections, University Libraries, The Catholic University of America
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.
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
Kathleen Cummings
Professor of History and American Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Adam Kissel
Senior Fellow, Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy
Matthew Petersen
Senior Analyst, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Grace Yukitch
Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University
Joel Hall
CEO, Unrivaled
Rev. Dr. David Latimore
Director, Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies
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
Alex J. Luchenitser
Associate Vice President & Associate Legal Director Americans United for Separation of Church & State