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325-4713
ahertzke@ou.edu

An internationally recognized expert on religion and politics, Allen Hertzke is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of REPRESENTING GOD IN WASHINGTON, an award-winning analysis of religious lobbies, which has been issued in a Chinese language translation; ECHOES OF DISCONTENT, an account of church-rooted populist movements; and co-author of RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICA, a comprehensive text now in its fourth edition. His latest book is titled FREEING GOD’S CHILDREN: THE UNLIKELY ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS. A frequent news commentator, Hertzke has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Times,Time Magazine,New Republic, USA Today,Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Weekly Standard, BBC World Service, PBS, and National Public Radio. He has held positions in Washington DC as Visiting Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Between 2008-2010 he served as lead consultant, first for the Pew Charitable Trusts and then the John Templeton Foundation, to develop strategic recommendations for advancing religious freedom around the globe. A winner of numerous teaching awards, Dr. Hertzke has lectured at the National Press Club, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and before numerous audiences in China.