About the FellowshipQanta Ahmed
Qanta Ahmed is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, where she writes about issues pertaining to Islam, the Middle East, medicine, and global health diplomacy. She has contributed editorials to CNN and provided radio and television commentary to news outlets including Voice of America, NPR, and Live Five News. Her first book, In the Land of Invisible Women, which details her experience of living and working as a physician in Saudi Arabia, has been published internationally.
John Farrell
John Farrell is a freelance journalist whose writing about science and religion appears in Salon, National Review, Skeptic, Cosmos, First Things, and Catholic World Report. His most recent book is The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology. He lives in Boston, where he has worked for the ABC affiliate as associate producer and writer.
Dan Gilgoff
Dan Gilgoff is a newsdesk editor at CNN and CNN.com, where he frequently covers religion. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. He has launched blogs on religion and politics for U.S. News & World Report and for Beliefnet, where his God-o-Meter blog won an Online Journalism Award. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War.
Zeeya Merali
Zeeya Merali has written articles across a range of scientific subjects for Scientific American, Nature, New Scientist, and Discover. A freelance journalist and author, she has published two textbooks in collaboration with National Geographic and is now working on her first popular physics book. Her documentary, Aperture Fever, about amateur astronomy, was broadcast on The History Channel, UK, in 2008. She has also worked on the forthcoming Nova television series The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney is a science journalist, author, lecturer, commentator, and blogger whose work focuses on issues arising at the intersection of science, politics, and culture. His articles have been published in Wired, Harper's, New Scientist, Slate, Salon, American Scholar, The New Republic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. His 2007 book Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming was selected as a best book of the year in the science category by Publisher's Weekly and a best science and technology book of 2007 by Library Journal. He is currently at work on his fourth book.
Lisa Mullins
Lisa Mullins is chief anchor and senior producer for the international public radio news magazine The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH, Boston. The program airs each weekday throughout the US and Canada. She has also anchored a nationally-broadcast television series, Thinking Big, which featured one-on-one interviews with prominent figures in science and technology. Her reporting has taken her to countries around the world, from Turkey to Cuba, China to Northern Ireland. Her story on her 24-hour stay at a mountain resort in North Korea recently won a top Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications.
Jane Qiu
Jane Qiu is a correspondent for the science journal Nature. She writes from Beijing on a wide range of topics, including neuroscience, stem-cell biology, bioethics, the environment, climate change, oceanography, and science policy. Her work has also appeared in Economist, Lancet, Lancet Neurology, New Scientist, Nature Biotechnology, Chemistry World, Seed, Guardian and BBC. She turned to freelance journalism after a period of post-doctoral research and a stint as an editor at the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Francis X. Rocca
Francis X. Rocca is the Vatican correspondent for Religion News Service and a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Forbes, Chronicle of Higher Education, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, American Spectator, and Atlantic Monthly. He is co-author, with Rockwell A. Schnabel, of The Next Superpower? The Rise of Europe and Its Challenge to the United States.
Carlin Romano
Carlin Romano is critic-at-large of the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a former president of The National Book Critics Circle in the US and was, for 25 years, the literary critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer. His criticism has appeared in The Nation, New Yorker, Harper's, Slate, Salon, Times Literary Supplement, and other national and international publications. He was one of three finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
Ron Rosenbaum
Ron Rosenbaum is the cultural columnist for Slate and the author of seven books, most recently The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler. His work has been widely published by periodicals including Harper's, The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, and New York Observer. He co-wrote the award-winning PBS documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. He is currently at work on two new books, one on nuclear war and the other on Bob Dylan.
Naomi Riley (Research Fellow)
Naomi Schaefer Riley, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, was, until recently, the deputy Taste editor of the Wall Street Journal, where she covered religion, higher education and philanthropy for the editorial page. Her book, "God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America," was published by St. Martin's in 2005. Prior to joining the Journal, she founded In Character, a magazine published by the John M. Templeton Foundation. Her writing has also been published in the Boston Globe the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications.