Debra Neill

Debra Neill is a lecturer in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. She received her doctorate in European history from Arizona State University in 2007. In preparation for her graduate studies in history she studied abroad in Macedonia (August 2000 - March 2001) after receiving a National Security Education Program Graduate International Fellowship. Her early research focused on religious and ethnic conflict more broadly and on the wars in the former Yugoslavia in particular. Currently, she is studying the concept of “liberty of conscience” as it evolved from the Reformation to the First Amendment. She has an article on the topic published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (“The Disestablishment of Religion in Virginia: Dissenters, Individual Rights, and the Separation of Church and State”). She is currently working on a book on the subject.