Molly Worthen
Educated at Yale University, Molly Worthen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history, particularly the ideas and culture of conservative Christianity. Worthen teaches courses in global Christianity, North American religious and intellectual culture, and the history of politics and idealogy. She is the author of Apostles of Reason: the Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, published by Oxford University Press. In addition, she is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and has written about religion and politics for Slate, the Boston Globe, Foreign Policy and other publications.