Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou

Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is a visiting professor in the International Studies Program at Boston College. Her research interests and policy work focus on the intersections of geopolitics, religion, and human rights, with particular focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and on global Orthodox Christianity. Prodromou served a diplomatic appointment on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and she was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion & Foreign Policy Working Group. She is widely published in academic and policy journals, and is active in policy and practitioner initiatives. She sits on the editorial board of The Review of Faith & International Affairs and The Journal of World Christianity and co-chairs the Orthodoxy, Politics, and International Relations Group of the International Orthodox Theological Association. Currently, she is non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center (non-resident senior fellow), as well as Religions for Peace (co-president), and the Freedom of Religion or Belief Women’s Alliance (alliance advisor). Her current research focuses on two areas: religious geopolitics and typologies of power in global Orthodox competitive pluralism; and, the effects of cultural heritage policy on institutional religious freedom and religious pluralism, with comparative case studies from the Near East. She earned a Ph.D. and an S.M. in political science from MIT.