Religion and International Affairs

Michael Barnett is a professor at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Barnett previously taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin, Macalester College, Wellesley College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bernett was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and the Dayan Center at Tel-Aviv University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland....

Ambassador Frederick Barton is the US Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Among his various prior positions, he was a co-director of the Post Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which issued the report Mixed Blessings: U.S. Government Engagement with Religion in Conflict Prone Settings. In addition, he served as UN deputy high commissioner for refugees in Geneva and as the first director of the Office of...

Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. Previously he served for many years as professor of political theory and Indian political thought and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Individualism in Social Science (1992 and 2008), editor of Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions (2005) and co-editor of Transforming India (2000). He has also...

Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the Founding Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and Co-Director of the Religion, Media and International Program, a program funded by a three-year grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation in 2006. As a Middle East expert and a leading Iran expert, Boroujerdi has authored multiple books and articles, including Iranian...

M. Christian Green has been the Alonzo McDonald Family Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law and during 2010-2011 will be a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include law and religion, feminism and the family, human rights, comparative religious ethics, and religion and international affairs. Green has...

Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, where he served as Associate Director from 1986-2009. Hefner is also a Commissioned Scholar on Indonesia for the Christianity and Freedom Project at the Berkley Center. At CURA, he has directed the Program on Islam and Society since 1991 and coordinated interdisciplinary educational programs on religion and world affairs. He most recently edited ...

Father J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where he is affiliated with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He plays a key role in leading the Center’s program on Religion and Public Life. He directed the Religion in International Affairs project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affair’s. The program was supported by the Henry. R....

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She has also taught or held fellowships at the University of Virginia, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Arizona State University, l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna). Hurd's publications include chapters in Rethinking Secularism (2011) and Religion and International Relations Theory (2011), Comparative...

Walter Russell Mead is the James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large/online director of The American Interest; from 1997-2010 he was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of the influential Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001) and God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World (2007), a major study of...

Alfred Stepan is Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. His current work focuses on religion and politics, and he is expanding his 2001 article “The World’s Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the 'Twin Tolerations'” into a book. Stepan also works on the Pew-sponsored Arab Barometer. His other major publications include Crafting State Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies...

Karin von Hippel is the director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and a senior fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She was formerly a co-director for the CSIS project, Mixed Blessings. She is currently on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States and has direct experience in over two dozen conflict zones; she also has advised the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on...

Diane Winston has been the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California since 2003. Her research interests include media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity. An active journalist from 1983 to 1995, Winston wrote for the Raleigh News and Observer, the Dallas Times Herald, the Baltimore Sun, and the Dallas Morning News, receiving Pulitzer Prize nominations for her work....

John Witte, Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His research focuses on religious liberty, marriage and family law, human rights, and legal history. Witte has directed a number of major projects at the Center related to democracy, human rights, and religious freedom; Christian Jurisprudence; and sex, marriage, family, and children. He will focus on the contributions of early modern European Calvinism to...