Film Experts

Featured Experts

To create the most complete documentary film ever on the history, meaning and intent of the Free Exercise clause and how it continues to shape America today, we interviewed and consulted with more than 40 experts, historians, professors and religious leaders. Those featured in the film are included below. 

Akhil Amar
Yale University School of Law

Betty Campbell
Rankin House Curator

John Cashon
Historian

Victor Christiano
Mount St. Michael Academy

Marcus Cole
Notre Dame School of Law

Jay Cost
American Enterprise Institute

Dennis Dickerson
Vanderbilt University

Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Archbishop of New York

Kathleen Flake
University of Virginia

Tabetha Garman
Northeast State Community College

Richard Garnett
University of Notre Dame School of Law

John Garvey
Catholic University of America

Robert P. George
Princeton University

Rev. Brian Graebe
St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral

Philip Hamburger
Columbia University School of Law

Nathan Hecht
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Aaron Heft
United States National Guard

Michael Helfand
Pepperdine University School of Law

Angela Wu Howard
Becket Fund

John Inazu
Washington University School of Law

Patrick Kelly
Knights of Columbus

Thomas Kidd

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Rev. Edward Kuczynski
St. Philip Neri Church

Cheryl LaRoche
University of Maryland

Spencer McBride
Joseph Smith Papers

Michael McConnell
Stanford School of Law

Pamela Nadell
American University

Dallin Oaks
The Church of Jesus Christ

Benjamin Park
Sam Houston State University

Eboo Patel
Interfaith America

Mark Rienzi
Becket Fund and Catholic University of America

Jacqueline Rivers
Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies

Mitt Romney
U.S. Senator

Thomas Ruller
State Archivist

Rabbi David Saperstein
Religious Action Center for Reformed Judaism

Jonathan Sarna
Brandeis University

Richard Turley
The Church of Jesus Christ

Asma Uddin
Catholic University Columbus School of Law

Alfred Uhry
Playwright

Sophie van Bijsterveld
Radboud University

Adrian Weimer
Providence College

Evan Young
Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

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