Melissa Deckman

Melissa Deckman is the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of
Public Affairs at Washington College, where she also chairs the Political
Science Department. An expert on
gender, religion, and American politics, she is the author or co-author of four
books, including Tea Party Women and School Board Battles:
The Christian Right in Local Politics, winner of the 2007 Hubert Morken
Award for the best book on Religion & Politics from the American Political Science Association. She chairs the board of
the Public Religion Research Institute and her political commentary has
appeared in The Washington Post,
Huffington Post, and the Brookings
Institution’s FixGov blog.