Our Community

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics draws on the vast experience and resources of many people to fulfill its mission: to deepen academic and public understanding of religion and politics in the United States.

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Fellows

We offer competitive postdoctoral fellowships to recent Ph.D.s seeking to join our community for up to two years. These fellows teach one undergraduate course per year and participate fully in the life of the center, while also pursuing their own research and scholarship. We also periodically welcome visiting research fellows into the life of the Center for teaching and research opportunities.

  • Michael Baysa

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    I am a historian of American religion, specializing in print culture and media technologies.

    Biography
  • Judah Isseroff

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    I work at the nexus of modern/contemporary Jewish thought, politics, and theology. My first book thinks Jewish with the life and work of Hannah Arendt.  

    Biography
  • Cody Musselman

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    I am an ethnographer of contemporary American religion, focusing on the body, health, capitalism, and religion.

    Biography
  • Aram Sarkisian 

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    I am a historian of religion, immigration, and labor in the twentieth-century U.S., specializing in Orthodox Christianity.

    Biography
  • Eric Stephen

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

    As a historian of religion and law in the United States, my work explores the dynamic relationship between judicial and popular understandings of religious liberty in both historical and contemporary contexts.

    Biography