Student Projects
INTERFAITH EDUCATION AND CHARTER SCHOOLS
Thomas Bell, Center intern spring 2009, began research for the development of a proposal for interfaith education in charter schools. His work contemplates that an overall interfaith approach to charter school education may be possible.
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND THE U.S. CONGRESS
Skylar Kovich, Center intern spring 2009, researched the impact that religion has on the political careers of current and former U.S. congressmen who are not Christian or Jewish. The project included profiles of current Muslim congress members Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Andre Carson (D-IN), current Buddhist congress members Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), former Sikh congressman Dalip Singh Saund (D-CA), current congressman Tom Cole (R-OK), and former senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), who are both Native American. Congress members who identify with no religion were addressed, as well, particularly current congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), who became the first congressman to identify himself as an atheist.
PRISON RELIGION
Callan Smith and Laura Klink, Center interns spring 2009, conducted research in support of the Center’s Prison Religion Project.
