Affiliates

The events of 9/11 came as a shock to the entire world; for Muslim communities, and particularly for those in the United States, there was no time available to privately absorb the impact of the attacks. Muslims were immediately cast into the public...

The Rev. Dr. Marcia Moret Sietstra is a retired pastor within the United Church of Christ. She earned a doctorate of ministry from Andover-Newton Theological School in 2012. Sietstra is the author of three cases, all set in the Midwest, that are now part...

Dr. Brent Plate a professor of religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He is author of several books and co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. He is on the board of the Interfaith...

Dr. David Reis is a visiting assistant professor in the Religious Studies department at the University of Oregon. He became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 2001 while teaching in the religious studies department at Wells College in Aurora, New York. His...

Dr. Craig Steven Wansink is chair of the religious studies department and the Joan P. and Macon F. Brock, Jr. Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom at Virginia Wesleyan College. He also serves as the senior pastor at Second...

Dr. Anne Hansen is a professor in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 2000 while teaching in the departments of history and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She...

Dr. Jeanne Kilde and Dr. Gayle Graham Yates became Pluralism Project affiliates in 2000. Together, they collaborated on a project from 2000-2003 to engage their students in research in research on the religious diversity of the Twin Cities. Both...

Dr. Lowell W. Livezey studied, taught, and wrote about the agency of religious organizations—especially churches, synagogues, mosques, and other worship centers—in large urban areas. Using ethnographic data assembled in collaboration with colleagues and...

Dr. Mark MacWilliams is a professor of religious studies at St. Lawrence University. He became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 1999 and conducted a multi-year study of the religious diversity present in St. Lawrence county in Northern New York. Dr...

Dr. Russell Rhoads is an associate professor of anthropology at Grand Valley State University. He became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 1998. Together with Mr. Joel Beversluis, Ms. Ghazala Munir, and students from Grand Valley State University, Dr...