Conference Speakers

Nancy Ammerman, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University

Ihsan Bagby, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Kentucky

Tobin Belzer, Ph.D.
Fellow, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Kasen Institute for the Study of the Role of Jews in American Life

Richard Flory, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biola University

Brother John of Taize, Ph.D.
Taize Community, France

Jennifer Lindholm, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) at the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)

Rabbi J. Rolando "Roly" Matalon
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York

Jack Miles
MacArthur Fellow (2002-2007)
Senior Advisor to the President at the J. Paul Getty Trust

Ghada Osman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language, Culture, and History, San Diego State University

Peter C. Phan, Ph.D.
Ignacio Ellacuria Professor of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University

Amira Quraishi
Muslim Youth Camp, Muslim Student Network & Omar Scholars Program

Nadia Roumani, M.A.
Independent Research Consultant

Monsignor Melchor Sanchez de Toca
Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture

Philip Schwadel, Ph.D.
National Study of Youth and Religion, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Christian Smith, Ph.D.
Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor
Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Diane Winston , Ph.D.
Knight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Southern California