John C. Green of the University of Akron Joins the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Dr. John C. Green of the University of Akron joins the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life as senior fellow in religion and American politics. Green, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the influence of religion on American politics, is the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.
(PRWEB) June 16, 2005 -- The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
announced that Dr. John C. Green will join the Forum as a senior fellow in
religion and American politics during the 2005-06 academic year. Green, one of
the nation’s foremost experts on the influence of religion on American politics,
is the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and
Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of
Akron.
“I could not be more pleased to have a person of John Green's
stature join us at the Pew Forum,” said Director Luis Lugo. “His proven ability
to conduct rigorous research and communicate the findings to the media and other
interested parties will greatly enhance the Forum’s efforts to provide timely
and impartial reporting on religion’s role in American politics.”
Green
has done extensive research on American religious communities and politics, and
he has enjoyed a long association with the Pew Forum and other projects
supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Since 1990, the Trusts have supported
John Green’s widely cited surveys, conducted in presidential election years, on
the political fault lines running through America’s religious landscape. Green
is also co-author of The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in
American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), with Andrew Kohut,
president of the Forum’s parent organization, the Pew Research Center, and Scott
Keeter, the Center’s director of survey research.
Green is the co-author
of The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics (Georgetown
University Press, 2005), The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy
(University Press of Kansas, 1997), and Religion and the Culture Wars (Rowman
& Littlefied, 1996). In addition he has published more than 60 scholarly
articles and more than 35 essays in the popular press. He is widely known as an
observer of national and Ohio politics, and is frequently quoted in the press,
including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, CNN, ABC
and CBS.
Green received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell
University in 1983 and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado in
1975.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life delivers timely,
impartial information to national opinion leaders on issues at the intersection
of religion and public affairs; it also serves as a neutral venue for discussion
of these matters. The Forum is a project of the Pew Research Center, a
nonpartisan “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and
trends shaping America and the world. For more information, visit www.pewforum.org.
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