Keynote Speaker

Gill

Anthony Gill (Ph.D. UCLA; B.A. Marquette) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, a Distinguished Research Scholar at Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion, and research associate at the Religious Freedom Project (Georgetown’s Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs).  He is the author of Rendering Unto Caesar (Chicago) and The Political Origins of Religious Liberty (Cambridge).  The latter book won the American Sociological Association’s Section on Religion’s Distinguished Book Award.  Prof. Gill’s current research agenda examines government regulation of religious property rights, the economic consequences of religious liberty, and how local social norms govern behavior.  He teaches courses in political economy, public choice, and religion & politics, earned the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999, and is the creator and host of the weekly podcast series Research on Religion (www.researchonreligion.org).  Tony also enjoys boxing, horseback riding, hiking, scuba diving, camping with his family, fantasy football, billiards, target shooting, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and all things cowboy.    His favorite color is royal blue and will consider you a friend forever if you buy him pizza and whiskey.