Justine Esta Ellis (PhD) is Associate Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Previously, she worked at a government ethics nonprofit as a senior advisor and was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral Leading Edge Fellow. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion, secularism, and public policy. Justine graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and received a doctorate in Theology and Religion from the University of Oxford. Her new book, The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age, examines the changing dynamics of religion and secularism in public life.
