Religion Experts
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
Robert Baum was born in Washington and grew up in Silver Spring. He attended Wesleyan University for his bachelor’s degree, where he first took a course on Apartheid and decided to concentrate in African history. Upon graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship, which enabled him to spend an entire year in a Diola village in southern Senegal, where he learned the language and began fie...
Professor, Department of History, Temple University
My research originally focused on African American community development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While researching my dissertation on "The Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1915" I uncovered a world where black women were deeply immersed in the social and political issues of the time and active participants in most community institutions.Quite by accident, I stu...
Independent scholar
Edward Holland’s research interests include questions of political and cultural change for Russia’s national minorities since the breakup of the Soviet Union. He recently received his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His dissertation, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Association of American Geographers, was about religious belief a...
ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer in History, and Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia
Dr. Piotr H. Kosicki specializes in the transnational history of 20th-century Europe, focusing particularly on religion, politics, and the history of ideas. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University for his work on state socialism’s reshaping of Catholicism in 20th-century Poland and France. Currently under preparation is his book entitled Between Catechism and Revolution: Catho...
Author
James Reston is the author of 13 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. He was awarded the Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 90 minute radio documentary on National Public Radio, "Father Cares: the Last of Jonestown." His last three works, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, and Warriors of God, have been translated into ten foreign langua...
Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Croft Institute for International Studies, The University of Mississippi
Ahmet Yükleyen is a Wilson Center fellow, a non-residential Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. He studied international relations at Bilkent University and completed his MA degree at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. i...