DIRECTOR
Barry A. Kosmin, a sociologist, is research professor in public policy and law at Trinity College. Principal investigator of the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey, he is co-author of One Nation Under God and of Religion in a Free Market.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Ariela Keysar, a demographer, is associate research professor in public policy and law at Trinity College. She was study director of the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey and is co-author of Religion in a Free Market.
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is professor of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. His many books include The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience and Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Frank Pasquale, a cultural anthropologist, is a research associate of ISSSC engaged in the study of the nonreligious population of the U.S. He has written and lectured widely on humanism, morality and ethics, and church-state relations and resides in Portland, Oregon.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Meera Nanda is a public intellectual and writer on science and secularism. She is author, among other books, of Prophets Facing Backward (Rutgers University Press, 2004). Prophets Facing Backward was chosen as the best book in current history for 2007 by the Indian History Congress. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Ryan T. Cragun is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. His research interests include: secularization, religious change, Mormonism, and religious independents/seculars. His current research is looking at several ways in which secular society interacts with religious fundamentalism.
RESEARCH FELLOW
Juhem Navarro-Rivera is a political scientist with an interest in public opinion and health policy. He holds a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Kara Ledger is a student in History/Social Sciences Education at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. Kara also obtained a BS in Marketing from CCSU in 2003.
ISSSC is linked to Trinity’s Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life as part of the College’s Program on Public Values, an initiative designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of some of the central issues and ideas of the contemporary world.
The establishment of ISSSC has been made possible through the intellectual commitment and financial support of the Posen Foundation of Lucerne, Switzerland.
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