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Expertise

Our scholars hold expertise on a broad range of areas pertaining to religion and politics, across U.S. history into our own time.

  • Tazeen M. Ali

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics

    • Islam
    • Islamic Law
    • Islamophobia
    • Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    Biography
  • Fannie Bialek

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics

    • Ethics
    • Gender and Sexuality
    • Political Thought
    • Religious Thought
    Biography
  • Ryan Burge

    Professor of Practice

    • Evangelicalism
    • Non-religion
    • Protestants
    • Religion and U.S. Politics
    • Religious Demography
    Biography
  • R. Marie Griffith

    John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

    • Abortion
    • Evangelicalism
    • Gender and Sexuality
    • Religion and U.S. Politics
    Biography
  • Elena V. Kravchenko

    Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

    • Orthodox Christianity in the U.S.
    • Race and Religion
    • Religion and Material Culture
    • Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    Biography
  • Mark Oppenheimer

    Professor of Practice and Executive Editor, Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

    • American Christianity
    • Freethought
    • Journalism
    • Judaism
    • Pluralism
    • Religion and U.S. Politics
    • Religious Liberalism
    • Twentieth Century Religious History
    Biography
  • Leigh Eric Schmidt

    Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor

    • Atheism
    • Freethought
    • Holidays
    • Humanism
    • Religion and Consumer Culture
    • Religious Liberalism
    • Secularism
    • Spiritual But Not Religious
    Biography
  • Mark Valeri

    Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics, Vice Director

    • Calvinism
    • Puritanism
    • Reformation Theology
    • Religion and American Economics
    Biography
  • Abram Van Engen

    Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

    • American Exceptionalism
    • Early American Literature
    • Poetry
    • Puritanism
    • Religion and Literature
    Biography