Marcia Pally

Professor Marcia Pally teaches at New York University, at Fordham University, and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Department at Humboldt University-Berlin, where she is now a regular guest professor. Her latest books are: White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?"; From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen": "Mimesis and Sacrifice"; "Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality" and "The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good."

"Commonwealth and Covenant" was selected by the United Nations for worldwide distribution and was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Professor Pally's research interests include religion, culture, and politics as well as culture and language. She was a Fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry (Princeton), twice a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, is a founding research member of the Berlin Institute for Public Theology and is a permanent Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. Prof. Pally spoke at the World Economic Forum (2010) and is the recipient of numerous grants including from the German Research Foundation (roughly the equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes for the Humanities) and from the German Academic Exchange Service.