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Academic advisors for the project include (but are not limited
to):
REZA
ASLAN - Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion
from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies
from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction
from the University of Iowa, and is currently a Doctoral
Candidate in History of Religions at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Until recently, he was both Visiting Assistant
Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University
of Iowa and the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa
Writers Workshop. He has served as a legislative assistant
for the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington
D.C., and was elected president of Harvard's Chapter of
the World Conference on Religion and Peace, a United Nations
Organization committed to solving religious conflicts throughout
the world. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the
New York Times, Slate, Boston Globe, the Washington Post,
and the Nation and has appeared on Meet The Press, Hardball,
The Daily Show, and Nightline. No god but God is his first
book. Born in Iran, he now lives in Santa Monica and New
Orleans.
RANDALL
BALMER - Randall Balmer, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor
of American Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University,
earned the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He has
lectured at the Chautauqua Institution and the Smithsonian
Associates and to audiences around the country, and he has
been a visiting professor at Rutgers, Yale, Drew, Princeton,
and Northwestern universities and at Union Theological Seminary,
where he is also an adjunct professor. Dr. Balmer has published
widely both in academic and scholarly journals and in the
popular press. He is editor-at-large for Christianity Today,
his commentaries on religion in America, distributed by
the New York Times Syndicate, have appeared in newspapers
across the country, and one of his essays, "Adirondack Fundamentalism,"
appears in the Ninth Edition of The Norton Reader. His first
book, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English
Culture in the Middle Colonies, won several awards, and
his second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey
into the Evangelical Subculture in America, was made into
a three-part documentary for PBS.
CATHERINE
BREKUS - Catherine Brekus is an Associate Professor
of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School at
the University of Chicago. She is the author of Strangers
and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. She
is currently writing a book entitled Sarah Osborn's World:
Popular Christianity in Early America. Her other projects
include editing a collection of essays, Women and American
Religion: Reimagining the Past, and coediting The Cambridge
Companion to Christianity in America with W. Clark Gilpin
and Martin E. Marty. She is an editor of The Journal of
Religion.
M.
SHAWN COPELAND - From 1994 to 2003 Copeland was associate
professor of systematic theology at Marquette University
and from 1989 to 1994, she taught at Yale University Divinity
School. She serves as Associate Director for the Masters
Degree Program and adjunct associate professor of systematic
theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier
University of Louisiana, New Orleans. She has lectured extensively
in the United States as well as in Australia, Belgium, Canada,
and Nigeria.
J.
DAVID HOEVELER - J. David Hoeveler is professor of history
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author
of The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940
(1977), James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition:
from Glasgow to Princeton (1981), Watch on the Right: Conservative
Intellectuals in the Reagan Era (1992), and The Postmodernist
Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s (1996).
His book The American Colonial Colleges: Intellect and Politics
was published in 2001. His research interests include: Darwin
in America, American religious and constitutional history
and American thought and culture
JAMES
HUTSON - James H. Hutson received his Ph.D. in History
from Yale University in 1964. He has been a member of the
History Departments at Yale and William and Mary and, since
1982, has been Chief of the Library's Manuscript Division.
Dr Hutson is the author of several books among them: John
Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1980);
winner of the Gilbert Chinard Prize, 1981; To Make All Laws:
The Congress of the United States, 1789-1989 (Washington
and Boston, 1989-90; 4th edition, Washington, 1990); The
Sister Republics: Switzerland and the United States from
1776 to the Present (Washington, 1991; 4th edition, Washington,
1998); Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
(5th printing, Washington, 2000).
DEBORAH
DASH MOORE - Dr. Moore is the Frederick G.L. Huetwell
Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the
Director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. A historian
of American Jews, she specializes in twentieth century urban
Jewish history. Her first book, At Home in America: Second
Generation New York Jews (1981), explores how the children
of immigrants created an ethnic world that blended elements
of Jewish and American culture into a vibrant urban society.
To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream
in Miami and L. A. (1994) follows those big city Jews who
chose to move to new homes in the era after World War II.
