Professor Marcia Pally

Professor Marcia Pally teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and at Fordham University’s Institute of American Language and Culture. She is the author of several books on religion and politics.

Prof. Pally spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2010 and has been awarded the German Research Foundation’s prestigious Mercator Guest Professorship (The German Research Foundation is roughly the equivalent of the National Institutes for the Humanities). Additionally, she is the co-recipient of a German Research Foundation research grant to compare the political ethics and activism of American and German evangelicals. She was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin  in 2007 and 2010.

In addition to her academic work, Prof. Pally has been a columnist in the U.S. and Europe for over 20 years, writing for The New York Times, the Village Voice, Telos journal, Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Südduetsche Zeitung, Tageszeitung, and Frankfurter Rundschau, among other periodicals