Thomas F. Farr is Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. A Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Farr has also taught atWest Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served for seven years in the U.S. Army, and twenty-one years in the American Foreign Service. Prior to leaving the Foreign Service to write and teach, he served as the U.S. State Department's first Director of the Office of International ReligiousFreedom. In this capacity he traveled the world to engage with persecuting governments, religious actors and their ideas, and the victims of religious persecution.
