Dr. Barry A. Kosmin holds degrees from the Universities of London and McMaster (Canada). He has taught at Universities in Europe, Africa and North America. Prior to coming to Trinity he was on the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate School and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town and University College Chichester, UK.

Dr. Kosmin has directed many large national social surveys and opinion polls including the CUNY National Survey of Religious Identification, the American Religious Identification Survey 2001, and the CJF 1990 US National Jewish Population Survey.

His leadership of research institutes has included: Associate Director, AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton; UK Executive Director, of the London-based think tank, Institute for Jewish Policy Research;  Founding Director, Mandell L. Berman Institute-North American Jewish Data Bank, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Dr. Kosmin is the author of over 20 books and research monographs and more than 50 scholarly articles in the areas of sociology, politics, philanthropy, and policy research.  His scholarship includes being (1993-99) Joint Series Editor (with Dr Sidney Goldstein) of the monograph series, American Jewish Society in the 1990s for State University of New York Press and (1999-2004) Joint Editor of the journal, Patterns of Prejudice.

Learn more about the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at www.trincoll.edu/secularisminstitute/.