Student Center Theater
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

“Bush and the Faith-Based Initiatives: Forgoing the Role of Chief Legislator”
Donna R. Hoffman, University of Northern Iowa, and
Alison Dana Howard, Dominican University of California

Discussants
Randall Balmer
Dartmouth Professor in the Arts & Sciences, and Chair,
Department of Religion, Dartmouth College
Author, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency From John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (2008)

John DiIulio, Jr.
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and
Civil Society, Professor of Political Science
Director, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society
University of Pennsylvania
Director, White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, 2001

Peter Wehner
Senior Fellow, Ethics & Public Policy Center
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director,
White House Office of Strategic Initiatives, 2002-2007
Deputy Director of Speechwriting, 2001

Moderator
Julie Byrne, Associate Professor of Religion and the
Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hofstra University