Stephen Prothero

Prothero was the chief academic adviser for the critically acclaimed six-hour WGBH-TV series "God in America." He also worked as a Goldman Sachs Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and as the chief outside writer for CNN's "Belief Blog." His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arthur Vinings Davis Foundation, and the Foundation for Religious Literacy. He received his BA from Yale in American Studies and his...See more

Prothero was the chief academic adviser for the critically acclaimed six-hour WGBH-TV series "God in America." He also worked as a Goldman Sachs Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and as the chief outside writer for CNN's "Belief Blog." His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arthur Vinings Davis Foundation, and the Foundation for Religious Literacy. He received his BA from Yale in American Studies and his PhD in the study of religion from Harvard. See less