Brian Grim
Dr. Brian J. Grim is a senior research fellow in religion and world affairs at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He also is a research affiliate with the Population Research Institute at Penn State University and with Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. Immediately prior to joining the Forum, he managed the international data initiative for the Association of Religion Data Archives housed at Penn State University and funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Lilly Endowment. He was also a faculty research associate at Penn State's Survey Research Center, where he was responsible for the planning, initiation and budgeting of all modes of survey research, including focus groups.
Before joining the Pew Forum, he worked for 20 years as an educator, researcher and development coordinator in China, the former USSR, Kazakhstan, Europe, Malta and the Middle East. His research interests include quantitative measurement of international religious regulation, religious freedom and socio-religious conflict. His 2006 publication with Roger Finke in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Religious Research provides indexes of religious regulation and favoritism for 195 countries of the world. Grim received his Ph.D. and an M.A. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. in TESOL from William Carey International University and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Delaware.