Marcia Pally

Marcia Pally teaches in Multilingual Multicultural Studies, a graduate program at New York University, and held the Mercator Professorship in the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin, where she is now an annual guest professor and member of the Center for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies and the Berlin Institute for Public Theology. In 2019-2020 she was a Fellow at The Center for Theological Inquiry (Princeton). Her research interests are culture, religion, and politics as well as the intersection of culture and language. She is the author of several books in each area,  including: 

White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?; 

From This Broken Hill I Sing To You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen; 
 

Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of  Relationality, selected by the U.N.'s Committee on Education for Justice for worldwide distribution; 
 

​​Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines​;​;
 

The New Evangelicals, a brief history of American evangelicalism and in-depth interviews of evangelicals who have left the right toward building a vision of the common good. 

Commonwealth and Covenant was selected by the United Nations Committee on Education for Justice for worldwide distribution and was nominated for a Grawemeyer Award in religion.

Marcia Pally has lectured widely at university and professional associations, among them, Oxford University; the Center for Theological Inquiry-Princeton; Institut d'études européennes et internationales du Luxembourg; John F. Kennedy School for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin; Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham; The Cato Institute; Hebrew Union College; among many others.

 She has also spoken at the World Economic Forum and been awarded numerous grants (from the German Research Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, among many others). In 2019-2020, she was a Fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton and was twice a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (2007, 2010).

In addition to her academic work, Prof. Pally has been a columnist and contributor to U.S. and European periodicals, including Religion News Service, Religion and Ethics, Commonweal, The New York Times, The Guardian, Internationale Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations), die Zeit, Südduetsche Zeitung, among other periodicals.

 Prof. Pally is a member of the Center for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies, The Berlin Institute of Public Theology, the Telos Institute, the Society for Christian Ethics, and The Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, in addition to other boards and advisory positions.

In the field of language and culture, Professor Pally is the editor of Sustained Content-Based Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL, for which she also wrote several chapters. She is the author of Screening English: Studying Movies for Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals including Language and Education, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Journal of Second Language Writing, and JBW.