Berkley Center

Diana Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She directs the research of The Pluralism Project, which documents the shifting religious landscape in the United States. Her most recent book is A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation (2001). She is also author of the award-winning Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (1993) among others. Eck was appointed to a State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom in 1996 and was President of the American Academy of Religion in 2005-6. She received her BA from Smith College, MA from the University of London, and PhD from Harvard University.