Dr. Dennis Hoover
Dennis Hoover, Ph.D., is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Institute. He serves as executive director of the Center on Faith & International Affairs (CFIA), and is editor of CFIA's journal, The Review of Faith & International Affairs. He is also responsible for the content of the Institute's website and email newsletters.
He came to the Institute in January 2003 from the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he was a resident fellow and associate editor of the Center's journalism review magazine, Religion in the News.
He earned his doctorate in politics in 1997 at the University of Oxford, where he wrote his thesis, "Conservative Protestant Politics in the United States and Canada: The Mobilization of Evangelical Social Movements Across the Continental Divide." He earned his M.Phil. in Politics in 1992 at Oxford as well, studying the political institutions of advanced industrial societies, American politics, contemporary political theory, and modern theories of law and state. He graduated magna cum laude in 1990 from Messiah College in Grantham, PA, where he majored in political science.
He has taught political science courses at several institutions, including Trinity College in Hartford, CT and Berry College in Mount Berry, GA. His recent academic publications include Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), and "Christian Conservatives Go to Court: Religion and Legal Mobilization in the United States and Canada," International Political Science Review. He has also written for diverse popular journals, including Books & Culture and The Nation. He serves on the editorial board for the book series, "Religion, Politics, and Public Life," from Praeger Press.
Articles by Dr. Dennis Hoover
- For God and Country
- The Future of U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy (Special Report)
- Faith and Politics
- Religion and International Affairs
- Latin American Evangelicals: Made in Whose Image?
- Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations
- Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue