Berkley Center

Paul Marshall is a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom. Among the world’s leading scholars of religious freedom, Marshall played a pivotal role in directing the world’s attention to the modern crisis of Christian persecution. Marshall is the author and editor of more than twenty books on religion and politics, especially religious freedom, including more recently, Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians (2013, with Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea), Silenced: How Apostasy Laws and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011, with Nina Shea), Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion (2009), Religious Freedom in the World (2008), and Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Sharia Law (2005). Marshall was also a part of the Christianity and Freedom Project headed by the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project.