Dr. Chris Beneke, professor of history and director of academic integrity, Bentley University

• Author of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism (Oxford) and co-editor of The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Religious Intolerance in Early America (Penn Press), as well as Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age (University of California Press).

• He has written essays on politics, religion, and sports for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, Philadelphia Inquirer, Huffington Post, and Christian Century. 

• His current project, Free Exercise: Rediscovering the First Amendment’s Religious Clauses, is under contract with Cornell University Press.