Evan Berry

Evan Berry is associate professor and director of graduate programs in American University's Department of Philosophy and Religion. His research examines the relationship between religion and the public sphere in contemporary societies, with special attention to the way religious ideas and organizations are mobilized in response to climate change and other global environmental challenges. Berry has written a number of journal articles on these themes, though they are most fully taken up in Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism (University of California Press, 2015), which traces the influence of Christian theology on the environmental movement in the United States. From 2016-2018, in collaboration with American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, Berry was the primary investigator of a Henry Luce Foundation funded project on "Religion and Climate Change in Cross-Regional Comparison." He also recently spent a year in residency at the State Department's Office of Religion and Global Affairs as the American Academy of Religion's inaugural Religion and International Relations Fellow. Berry is the president-elect of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.