Carolyn M. Warner

chair and Vail Pittman professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She conducts research and teaches primarily in the areas of religion and politics, with a focus on the impact of institutions and beliefs on behavior, religion-state interactions, and on malfeasance and the abuse of power within religious and quasi-sacred institutions. Those interests have led to a substantial project on clergy child sex abuse in the Catholic church and sexual assault in the military.

I am the author of several books, Confessions of an Interest Group (Princeton 2000), The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union (Cornell 2007), (a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title”), and Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions and Public Goods Provision (Cambridge, in production), and a number of articles.

I have been a recipient of major grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation/Science of Generosity Program, the Henry Luce Foundation, the US Army Research Institute, the US Office of Naval Research, and have been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and the Susan Louise Dryer National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution.