Berkley Center

Elizabeth H. Prodromou is a visiting professor in the International Studies Program at Boston College. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. She has published a wide range of scholarly and policy-related work on the intersection of geopolitics, religion, and human rights, with particular focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Her current research focuses on religious geopolitics and typologies of power, with a case study of Russian influence-building through religious soft and sharp power, as well as the effects of cultural heritage policy on institutional religious freedom and religious pluralism in the Near East. Through the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Research Project Prodromou was also part of the Christianity and Freedom Project and Under Caesar's Sword, a collaborative research project with the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame.