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Sumaya Abubaker

Sumaya Abubaker serves as project manager for the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. In this capacity, she manages many projects, including the Passing the Mantle Clergy and Lay Leadership Institute, a training and empowerment program for emerging African

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Sarah Bassin

Sarah Bassin is a staff member of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. A native of Overland Park, Kansas, Sarah graduated summa cum laude with a BA in religion and history from Lafayette College. While her interest in interfaith relations began

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Hebah Farrag

Hebah Farrag is project manager for CRCC's Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative and associate director of the Center for Muslim and Jewish Engagement, a partnership between the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, and

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Richard Flory

Richard Flory is Senior Research Associate in the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Research Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his primary

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Brie Loskota

Brie Loskota is Managing Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also serves as the program officer for the CRCC Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, a program that

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Jon Miller

Jon Miller, director of research and research professor of sociology, convenes CRCC's interdisciplinary academic advisory council. As a comparative sociologist interested in organizations and religion, Miller has focused on the history of the international evangelical missionary movement, using that movement

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Donald E. Miller

Donald E. Miller is Firestone Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He received the Ph.D. degree in Religion (Social Ethics) from USC in 1975. He is

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John B. Orr

John B. Orr is senior research fellow of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. In 1996, Orr co-founded the center with Donald E. Miller, and was co-director until 1998. He has had a distinguished career at the University of

Norella M. Putney

Project Director Norella M. Putney, Ph.D., is project director of the Transmission of Religion Across Generations (TRAG), a three-year study of families and religion supported by a grant from The Templeton Foundation. Dr. Putney coordinates the work of a nine-member

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Napah Phyakul Quach

Napah Phyakul Quach is the director of finance for the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. She holds a Masters of International Business degree from Pepperdine University. Her graduate work included an international component, consisting of coursework at the

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Timothy Sato

Timothy Sato serves as communications director and senior editor for the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He has conducted research and co-written reports on community organizing with Donald Miller. His work has appeared in GenX Religion, (Flory and

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Mark Whitlock

Rev. Mark Whitlock is the director of community initiates at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He also serves as the pastor of Christ Our Redeemer AME Church in Irvine, which started with five members and has grown

About the CRCC

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture was founded in 1996 to create, translate, and disseminate scholarship on the civic role of religion in a globalizing world. CRCC engages scholars and builds communities in Los Angeles and around the globe.

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