Meet Our Experts

We have assembled of team of secular experts on a broad spectrum of topics related to secular voters. All of them have generously agreed to serve as a resource to you. Please feel free to contact them directly for their advice and expertise.

Dr. John Shook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowie StateUniversity in…

Atheism and agnosticism, Secularization, Political secularism, Secular activism

Shakir Stephen is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at the University…

Religion in the United States, Secularity, Nonreligion, Religious Freedom, Religion & Science

Sarah M. Levin is a strategist, lobbyist, and grassroots organizer specialized in…

Secular public policy, secular values and secular democracy messaging, engaging and mobilizing secular voters, local secular communities, secular inclusion in interfaith work, and secular movement building

Dusty Hoesly is the Associate Director of the Walter H. Capps Center…

American religion, secularism, religiously unaffiliated (“nones”), contemporary spirituality, new religious movements

Dr. Ryan T. Cragun is a husband, father, and empirical sociologist (in…

Prejudice and discrimination toward the nonreligious, religious exiting, secularization, Mormonism

Melanie Elyse Brewster (b. Miami, Florida) is an artist, scholar, and practicing…

Pathways to nonbelief and religious deconversion, gender and sexuality, marginality and stress, queer futurities

Dr. Joseph Blankholm is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University…

Religion and Politics, Spirituality, Nonreligion, Atheism, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Religion in the United States, American Religious History

Lori G. Beaman, Ph.D., is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity…

Nonreligion, human/non-human relationships, equality, law, and religious diversity

Sikivu Hutchinson, Ph.D. is a Los Angeles-based educator, author, playwright, director and musician. …

Social and gender justice politics, African American Humanism, culturally responsive humanism, Black feminism/womanism, LGBTQ+ youth and community leadership, public policy and educational justice 

Evan Stewart is an assistant professor of sociology at University of Massachusetts…

Sociology of religion, religious disaffiliation, spirituality, public opinion research, civic engagement, political behavior

Dr. Phil Zuckerman is the author of several books, including Beyond Doubt…

Secularization, Secularism, Secular culture, Secular morality, Secular identities, Scandinavian, Secularity

Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is a leading expert in the demographics and politics…

Race and Secularism, Secular representation, Secular voting behavior, Latino and Latin American Secularism

Latest Articles & Insights

Published in Secular Politics on 10/29/2025 I want to continue with the discussion of the American Values Survey by PRRI.

Published in Secular Politics on 10/23/2025 Earlier this week, PRRI released the latest American Values Survey. While the survey contains

Virginia’s adult population is approximately 6.83 million individuals. According to the Pew Research Center, around 28% of Virginians (or nearly

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