Phil Zuckerman

Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. His research interests focus on secularity, atheism, apostasy, and Scandinavian culture from a sociological perspective. He is the author of Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion (Oxford, 2011), Atheism and Secularity (Praeger, 2010), Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment (NYU, 2008), as well as of several op-ed pieces that have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and the Huffington Post. His research has also been published in a number of journals. Zuckerman received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.