Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College

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1 August 2014 ARIELA KEYSAR, Ph.D. EMPLOYMENT Associate Research Professor, Public Policy and Law Program, Trinity College, Hartford Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College, CUNY Associate Project Director, The College Years Project, Jewish Theological Seminary Senior Research Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Study Director, American Religious Identification Survey, and American Jewish Identity Survey, 2001, Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Associate Director for Data Collection and Sampling, National Survey of Leadership in Latino Parishes and Congregations, NSLLPC 2000, Office for Research in Religion in Society and Culture (RISC), Brooklyn College Associate Project Director, The High School Survey of Young Conservative Jews, Jewish Theological Seminary Instructor of Introductory Courses in Hebrew, Jewish Theological Seminary Research Consultant, Congregational Survey and Bar/Bat Mitzvah Survey, , Jewish Theological Seminary Survey of Jewish clergy's encounters with interfaith couples, Berman Institute, North American Jewish Data Bank, CUNY Senior Analyst, Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas Inc. market research firm Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Fellow, Berman Institute, North American Jewish Data Bank, CUNY Doctoral Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Introductory Courses in Statistics, Instructor of Introductory and Advanced Courses in Hebrew, & School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Library and Archive Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rothberg International School, Summer Ulpan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Executive Director, Fertility and Family Formation Study, Israel School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Demography, 1990, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Thesis: Demographic Processes in the Kibbutz M.A. in Demography, 1983, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, cum laude B.A. in Statistics, 1979, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Graduate studies in demography, University of California at Berkeley, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Program chair, , Communications chair, , Membership chair, , Mentor program coordinator, , New York Chapter of AAPOR. Member, Population Association of America, Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), SSSR Distinguished Article Award Committee 2013, 2014 (Chair) Member, National Technical Advisory Committee, Council of Jewish Federations, Board, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Advisory Board, the New Jersey Chapter of American Friends of the Hebrew University, BOOKS Secularism, Women & The State: The Mediterranean World in the 21 st Century, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Secularism & Science in the 21 st Century, Ariela Keysar, and Barry A. Kosmin, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Religion in a Free Market, Religious and Non-Religious Americans: Who, What, Why, Where, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Ithaca, Paramount Market Publishing, The Next Generation: American Jewish Children and Adolescents, Ariela Keysar, Barry A. Kosmin and Jeffrey M. Scheckner, SUNY Press, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH Co-Principal Investigator, American Religious Identification Survey, 2008 Co-Principal Investigator, International Survey: Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists: India REFEREE and REVIEWER Contemporary Jewry (member of Editorial Board) Journal of Contemporary Religion Journal of Official Statistics Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (committee of Distinguished Article Award) Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review Social Forces VOLUNTEER: The Grace Institute, New York (Advisory Board) LANGUAGES: Hebrew, native; English, fluent; Spanish, conversational. 2

3 PUBLICATIONS Freedom of choice: Women and demography in Israel, France and the United States, Ariela Keysar, in, Secularism on the Edge: Rethinking Church-State Relations in the United States, France and Israel, Jacques Berlinerblau, Sarah Fainberg and Aurora Nou, Eds. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, From Jerusalem to New York: Researching Jewish Erosion and Resilience. Ariela Keysar, Contemporary Jewry, 34(2), , Filling a data gap: the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) series. Ariela Keysar, Religion, 44(3), Shifts Along the American Religious-Secular Spectrum. Ariela Keysar, Secularism and Nonreligion , Traditionalism, professional identity and the attitudes of academics and physicians in India toward alternative medicine, Ariela Keysar, Barry A. Kosmin & Umesh Gidwani, Asian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 22-26, A World of Atheism: Global Demographics, Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera, in The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, editors, , Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013 The Emergence of Three Distinct Worldviews among American College Students, Ariela Keysar, The New England Journal of Higher Education, October 15, 2013 American Jewish Secularism: Jewish Life Beyond the Synagogues, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, American Jewish Year Book, Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin Eds. London: Springer, Review of Atheism and Secularity, Ariela Keysar, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27:1, The Meaning of Being Young Jews Today, Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, Fall 2012 On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the United States, Ryan T. Cragun, Barry Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Joseph H. Hammer & Michael Nielsen, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27:1, , Atheism, Ariela Keysar in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof Eds. New York: Sage, Self-Described Religious Identification of Adult Population: , Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Table 75, Statistical Abstract of the United States, U.S. Census Bureau, Distancing from Israel: Evidence on Jews of No Religion, Ariela Keysar, Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30 no.2-3, Secular Americans and secular Jewish Americans: similarities and differences, Ariela Keysar, Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30 no.1, Untruly Trinity? Secularism Institute Renews Liberal Arts Curriculum, Ariela Keysar, New England Journal of Higher Education, August U.S. Latino Religious Identification : Growth, Diversity & Transformation, A Report Based on the American Religious Identification Survey 2008, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, March American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population, A Report Based on the American Religious Identification Survey 2008, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar with Ryan Cragun and Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, September

4 Women and Demography in the Mediterranean States, Ariela Keysar, in Secularism, Women & The State: The Mediterranean World in the 21 st Century, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008), Summary Report, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, March High School Students Opinions about Science Education, Ariela Keysar and Frank L. Pasquale, in Secularism & Science in the 21 st Century, Ariela Keysar, and Barry A. Kosmin, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists, International Survey: India , Summary Report, Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, June Is religion on the rise or on the decline? Ariela Keysar, Canadian American Research Series 4, no Who are America s Atheists and Agnostics? Ariela Keysar, in Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, The Freethinkers in a Free Market of Religion, Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, in Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Eds. Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Secularism: A Symposium, A New Academic Enterprise, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, A Special Supplement to Religion in the News, Winter Religion and Political Party Preference: New Findings from the American Religious Identification Survey, Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, Ithaca, Paramount Market Publishing, Eight Up The College Years: The Jewish Engagement of Young Adults Raised in Conservative Synagogues, , Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, New York, The Jewish Theological Seminary, Creating and Nurturing Young Jewish Leaders: The Camping Experience , Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, a report for the National Ramah Commission of the Jewish Theological Seminary, No Religion A profile of America s unchurched, Ariela Keysar, Egon Mayer and Barry A. Kosmin, Public Perspective, January/February Religious Identification Among Hispanics in the United States, Ariela Keysar, Barry A. Kosmin and Egon Mayer, The Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinas/os (PARAL), New York, Brooklyn College, Camping Experience : The Impact of Jewish Summer Camping on the Conservative High School Seniors of the Four Up Study, Ariela Keysar and Barry Kosmin, a report for the National Ramah Commission of the Jewish Theological Seminary, American Religious Identification Survey, 2001Report, Barry A. Kosmin, Egon Mayer and Ariela Keysar, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, American Jewish Identity Survey, 2001,AJIS Report, Egon Mayer, Barry A. Kosmin, and Ariela Keysar, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York,

5 Four Up The High School Years, : The Jewish Identity Development of the B nai Mitzvah Class of 5755, Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, New York, The Jewish Theological Seminary, North American Conservative Teenagers' Attachment to Israel, Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, UK, "Where have all the rabbis gone? An analysis of JTS-ordained and rabbinical students," Aryeh Davidson, Ariela Keysar, and Jack Wertheimer, JTS Magazine, winter Jewish Identity and Religious Commitment: The North American Study of Conservative Synagogues and Their Members, , Jack Wertheimer, editor; Ariela Keysar, associate editor, The Jewish Theological Seminary, "The geography of Conservative Judaism," Jack Wertheimer and Ariela Keysar, in Jewish Identity and Religious Commitment, edited by Jack Wertheimer, The Jewish Theological Seminary, "Religious beliefs of teenagers and their parents: God is in, gender difference is out," Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, in Jewish Identity and Religious Commitment, edited by Jack Wertheimer, The Jewish Theological Seminary, What Do Rabbis Think and Do About Intermarriage? Highlights of a New Survey of the American Rabbinate, Egon Mayer and Ariela Keysar, the Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY, Conservative Synagogues and Their Members: Highlights of the North American Survey of , Jack Wertheimer, editor; Ariela Keysar, associate editor, The Jewish Theological Seminary, "Party political preferences of U.S. Hispanics: The varying impact of religion, social class and demographic factors," Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, "The impact of religious identification on differences in educational attainment among American women in 1990," Ariela Keysar and Barry Kosmin, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, "Single-parent families participation in the Jewish community," Ariela Keysar, Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. 70, Patterns of Philanthropy: New York versus Non-New York Jewry in 1990, Ariela Keysar, working papers, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, The Graduate Center, CUNY, "Exogamy or endogamy in remarriages," Ariela Keysar, Barry Kosmin, Nava Lerer, Egon Mayer, Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 12, "Secular education and the religious profile of contemporary black and white Americans," Barry Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Nava Lerer, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, "Fertility patterns in the Jewish population of Israel," Ariela Keysar, Eitan Sabatello, Ilana Ziegler, Ron Shtarkshall, Shlomo Kupinskey, Ron Zur, Eric Peritz in Studies in the Fertility of Israel, edited by E. Peritz and M. Baras, "Fertility and modernization in the Moslem population of Israel," Ariela Keysar, Eitan Sabatello, Ron Shtarkshall, I.lana Ziegler, Shlomo Kupinskey, Eric Peritz in Studies in the Fertility of Israel, edited by E. Peritz and M. Baras, "Fertility patterns in the kibbutzim of Israel," Ariela Keysar in Studies in the Fertility of Israel, edited by Eric Peritz and Mario Baras, Highlights of the CJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, Barry A. Kosmin, Sidney Goldstein, Joseph Waksberg, Nava Lerer, Ariela Keysar, and Jeffrey Scheckner, Council of Jewish Federations,

6 Demographic Processes in the Kibbutzim of Israel, Ariela Keysar, Doctoral dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1990 (in Hebrew). "Socio-economic characteristics and life expectancies in nineteenth century England: a district analysis," Dov Friedlander, Jhona Schellekens, Eliyahu Ben Moshe, Ariela Keysar, Population Studies, Vol. 39, IN THE MEDIA (Selected) USA Shalom Radio, guest, March 3, The new American Jewish secularism with Barry A. Kosmin, Guest Voices, The Washington Post, February 19, The Meaning of Being Young Jews Today, Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, Fall Featured as the subject of an article in Israel s Globes Magazine: American Jews are giving up higher education, August 16, 2012 (in Hebrew). "What does 'belief' mean to Americans?" Podcast, The Religious Studies Project, June 11, Rise in Americans with no religion, featured in CBS News; USA Today, New York Times, BBC; NPR; Associated Press, March PRESENTATIONS ( ) Deprivation, Religiosity, and the Current Economic Crisis, presenter, (with Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi) Religion and Crisis Conference, BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group, University of Sussex, UK, July 2-14, Jewish Demography and Secularism, guest speaker, Prozdor Hebrew High School, JTS New York, January 26, 2014 The Demography of Judaism Outside the Synagogue, presenter, Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, December 16, 2013 Are We Seeing the Emergence of Three Distinctive Worldviews? presenter, (with Barry A. Kosmin), Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Boston, November 9, 2013 The Role of Religion in the Everyday Lives of Young People, presenter, Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Boston, November 8, 2013 Secularism and the Status of Women, lecture, November 1, 2013, Pitzer College The Demography of Secular Judaism, lecture, October 30, 2013, HUC, Los Angeles American Jewish Secularism in the 21 st century, The Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, July 28-Augut 1, Vision, Innovation and Implementation, discussant, Study Day: Jewish Educational Tourism: Multiple Origins, Paths, and Destinations, Oranim Academic College, Israel, July 25, 2013 Religious Identity Development of Youth: The Role of Socialization Agents, International Society for the Sociology of Religion 32 nd Conference, Turku, Finland, June 27-30,

7 Freedom of Choice: Women and Demography in Israel, France and the U.S. Secularism on the Edge: The Church & The State in the United States, France & Israel, Georgetown University, February What you believe really defines who you are: How Americans Perceive Religious Belief Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November, 2012 Who is Mom s Smart Child? (in Hebrew), EduAction, The Israel Education Forum, Holon, Israel, August 22, Faith and Ideology: Which Americans are willing to risk their lives for their family, country, or an ideal? Ariela Keysar (presenter), with Barry A. Kosmin, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera: American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting, May 17-20, I Have No Religion but I Am Jewish, Georgetown University, Program for Jewish Civilization s Lecture March 22, What does belief mean to Americans? Keynote, Symposium: What Does It Mean to Believe? University of Kent, UK, March 9, Dating Mister Fun : Jewish College Students Narratives about Intermarriage, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 24, What do (not) you believe? Where do you belong? How do you behave? Rutgers University Humanist Chaplaincy Lecture, February 20, Who Marries Nones? Whom Do the Nones Marry? And How Does It Affect the Family Unit? Ariela Keysar (presenter), with Barry A. Kosmin, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference, October 29, Numbering the Jews-- Religious and Secular, Brandeis University Conference: The Socio-Demography of the American Jewish Community October 24, Identifying Indicators for Secularism in Israel, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December Belonging, Believing and Behaving: Persistent Gender Gaps in American Religion, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion annual conference, October Religiosity of Scientists and Academics: An International Comparison, with Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion annual conference, October Birth, Marriage, Death & Religious Decision-Making, New Findings: American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008), Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion annual conference, October What can the American Religious Identification Survey Series Tell Us about Secularization in the United States Today? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion annual conference, October Secular Jews and other Secular Americans: New Findings, The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, August Religious Decision-Making on Life Cycle Events Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture annual conference, April

8 Indian Secularism and Scientific Opinion with Barry A. Kosmin, Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion annual conference, October Israeli Immigrants: , Association for Canadian Studies Symposium on Migration & Jewish Identity, Ellis Island Museum, September Measuring Secularity in the United States, Joint Conference - Identifying Indicators for Secularism - ISSSC and the Guttman Center of The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, August Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists: India , Release of the Summary Report with Barry Kosmin and Meera Nanda, United Nations Plaza, New York, June Believing Without Belonging and Belonging Without Believing in Contemporary American Religion, International Conference on Religions des Ameriques: du miliea du XX siècle a nos jours, Toulouse, France, November Measuring Religious Commitment and Secularization through Time-Use Data, with Barry Kosmin and Benjamin Beit- Hallahmi, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, November The secularization of the American Sunday, with Barry Kosmin and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November Is Religion on the Rise or Declining? American Canadian Symposium, Drew University, September Secular Jews and Other Secular Americans: What do they have in common? Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December From Generation to Generation: Religious Behavior among Jewish College Students, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October Socioeconomic Rankings of Religious Groups, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, October Changing Values Patterns of Lifetime Switching Out of a Religious Identification in the U.S., with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May More Spiritual but Less Religious: North American Jewish College Students, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December Religious Switching in a Free Market Lifetime Switching in and out of a Religious Identification, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture October The Rise in Attachment to Israel since 2000 among the Eight Up Cohort of North American Conservative Jewish College Students, with Barry A. Kosmin, The Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, Israel August Religious Identification, Congregational Membership and Political Party Preference, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May The Rise in Attachment toward Israel since 2000: New Data from the Longitudinal Study of North American Conservative Youth , with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December New Methodologies in the College Stage (Third Phase) of the Longitudinal Study of Young Conservative Jews, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December

9 The Impact of Religious Identification on Differences in Educational Attainment Among American Women, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, October The Development of Religious Life and Spirituality of Young People Ages 13-22, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October Applying New Methodologies in the Longitudinal Study of Young Conservative Jews, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May Exploring Jewish Student Life on University Campuses: Applying New Methodologies in the Longitudinal Study of Young Conservative Jews, with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November Degrees of Secularism in a Religious Society: New Results from the American Religious Identification Survey 2001, with Egon Mayer and Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November Political Party Preferences of U.S. Hispanics : The Role of Religion and Demographics, with Barry A. Kosmin and Egon Mayer, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May Religious Diversity in the American Family, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November Religious and Spiritual Dimensions of Conservative Jewish Teens: Qualitative Data from the Longitudinal Panel Study , with Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November Religion, Religious and Secular-- What do They All Mean? with Egon Mayer and Barry A. Kosmin, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May Attachment to Israel of North American High School Students, with Barry A. Kosmin, The Thirteen World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, Israel August The Impact of Secularism on Jewish Family Life, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December Roundtable First Report on the National Survey of Leadership in Latino Parishes and Congregations (NSLLPC): Sampling of Latino Parishes and Congregations, Annual Meeting of the Society for The Scientific Study of Religion, October