Berkley Center

Mathew N. Schmalz is an associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Schmalz is an expert in Catholicism in the non-Western world; new religious movements; and religion and politics in India and Pakistan. Schmalz has been a panelist for On Faith and writes regularly for the Boston Globe website Crux. He has published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Commonweal Magazine, The National Catholic Reporter, the Providence Journal, and the Telegram & Gazette, and he has provided expert commentary to USA Today, the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC's Good Morning America, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, NPR, and U.S. News & World Report, among others. His work has also appeared in the Best American Spiritual Writing series. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago.