About

Daniel Mark is assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, where he is a faculty associate of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good. He is spending 2017–18 at Notre Dame as a Visiting Tocqueville Fellow and a visiting research fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture.

Mark’s research interests include religious freedom, religion and politics, constitutional law and the Supreme Court, and Judaism and Christianity. Appointed to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, Mark currently chairs the body, which monitors the universal right to freedom of religion and makes policy recommendations to the president, secretary of state, and Congress.

In addition to his academic writing, he has published on topics related to international religious freedom in major news outlets such as CNN, the Associated Press and the National Catholic Reporter. He holds a PhD from Princeton University.