As part of its program to connect the media with political scientists, APSA is compiling a list of individuals willing to talk to reporters about their research. Most immediately, we seek experts on issues such as immigration policy; voting rights; gay rights and same-sex marriage; campaign finance; Iran’s nuclear program and US foreign policy; and budget, tax and other economic policy. While the media may be interested primarily in experts who can speak directly to these issues, we often get requests for political scientists who can speak about issues from different perspectives. If you have expertise that speaks to these topics and would like to be added to the list, please contact Jennifer Diascro, Director of Institutional Programs at APSA (press@apsanet.org).
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Political Scientist Quoted in NY Times Opinion on American Christianity and Secularism
The Protestant bias of the American public sphere has mellowed over time, but it still depends on “Christian secularism,” said Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, a political scientist at Northwestern University. This is a “political stance” premised on a “chiefly Protestant notion of religion understood as private assent to a set of propositional beliefs,” she told me. Other traditions, such as Judaism and Islam and to some degree Catholicism, do not frame faith in such rationalist terms, or accept the same distinction between internal conviction and public argument.
via www.nytimes.com
"Professor Hurd works at the intersection of international politics, legal studies and religious studies. She is currently writing a book on the legal and administrative regulation of religion in global and transnational politics. Central themes include the politics of international human rights, global governance, legal and religious pluralism, and the international legal construction and regulation of religious freedom." {from faculty profile}