Berkley Center

Shaun Casey is a senior fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia and a Pulaski Institution non-resident fellow. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and professor of the practice in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2021. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He has also served as professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and held positions at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Casey has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq, as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (forthcoming, with Michael Kessler); he is writing a book on ethics and international politics tentatively titled Niebuhr’s Children. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

Sam Perry is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated with both the Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Departments. He has published three books including Growing God’s Family (2017), Addicted to Lust (2019), and co-authoring Taking America Back for God (2020).

Andrew Whitehead is an associate professor of sociology at Clemson University. He is also the assistant director of the ARDA, a leading online religion data archive and an associate editor for the journal Sociology of Religion. He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications and co-author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (2020).