Berkley Center

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

John Borelli, a historian of religions and theologian, is special assistant to the president for Catholic identity and dialogue at Georgetown University, where he is also a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Borelli has actively promoted interreligious dialogue and understanding in various teaching and staff positions since receiving a doctorate in history of religions and theology in 1976 from Fordham University. While at Georgetown University for more than two decades, he worked closely with Rev. Thomas Stransky and others who served as Vatican staff and theological consultors during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962-1965) and beyond, researching and writing about the development and implementation of the council’s Nostra Aetate (“Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions”). Borelli served over 16 years at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop in ecumenical and interreligious affairs.

Sriman Anuttama Dasa is the minister of communications for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Gaudiya Vaishnava, or monotheistic Hindu, tradition. Dasa has served as a member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commission (GBC) since 1999 and was its chairman in 2014 and 2015.

Susan Eastman is an associate research professor emerita of the New Testament at Duke Divinity School. Her scholarly focus is on Paul’s letters in conversation with issues of personhood in science and philosophy. In August 2025 she published Romans: An Interpretations Bible Commentary. Among her other works are Recovering Paul’s Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians (2007; 2nd edition 2022), Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology (2017), and Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology (2023), as well as numerous articles and conference papers. She is also ordained in the Episcopal Church. Eastman holds a B.A. from Pomona College, M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and Ph.D. from Duke University.

Ari Gordon is the director of U.S. Muslim-Jewish relations at the American Jewish Committee, where he leads the organization’s interreligious engagement with Muslim leadership in the United States and around the world. He is a scholar of Islamic studies and the history of interreligious relations, and for the past 20 years Gordon has also been at the forefront of Jewish bridge-building efforts with other faith groups. Gordon holds a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University, a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Adam Gregerman is professor of Jewish studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and co-director of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is chair of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations and is on the board of the National Council of Synagogues and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focuses on Jewish-Christian relations from antiquity through the present.

Allyson Huval is a doctoral student in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, studying Hindu-Christian dialogue within the context of Christian yoga. Huval has presented her research at the American Academy of Religion and has published articles in academic journals and public news sites. She received her master's degree concentrating in Asian religions from Yale Divinity School and two bachelor's degrees from Louisiana State University.

Archbishop Felix Machado is chairman of the Continental Federation of Asian Bishops' Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (OEIA-FABC) and a bishop-member of the Holy See's Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, as well as member of advisory committees for several international initiatives. He studied theology at Faculte Catholique de Lyon, France, and holds a doctorate from Fordham University in New York.