Shaun Casey

Shaun Casey is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the National Capital Semester for Seminarians (NCSS) at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He has served as a visiting fellow at the Center for American Progress and a religious outreach advisor to the Obama campaign. His research interests include ethics and international affairs, the public implications of religious belief, and the intersection of religion and politics.

He has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. His book, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy v. Nixon 1960, will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2009.

He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School with a Master of Divinity Degree and a Doctorate of Theology in Religion and Society. He also earned a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University with a concentration in International Security. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Abilene Christian University. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and serves on its Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion.