John Green
Dr. John C. Green is a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He also serves as director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron.
Dr. Green has done extensive research on American religious communities and politics. Since 1990, The Pew Charitable Trusts have supported his widely cited surveys, conducted in presidential election years, on the political fault lines running through America's religious landscape. He is the author of The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections (Greenwood, 2007), and he co-authored The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2006) and The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000). He 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.