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