Russell Tracey McCutcheon is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Franklyn C. Niles is a professor of political science at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark. He wrote the atheism entry for the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.

The Secular Student Alliance is based in Minneapolis and describes itself as “an umbrella organization uniting atheist, agnostic, humanist, rationalist, skeptic, and freethought students and groups on high school and campuses across the world.” The SSA has a list of affiliates around the country and the world.

The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is a support organization for nontheists in the armed forces.

The Institute for Humanist Studies is based in Washington D.C., and aims to promote “humanism, a nonreligious philosophy based on reason and compassion. IHS advances human rights, secular ethics and the separation of religion and government through advocacy, innovation and collaboration.” Contact administrator Maggie Ardiente.

Allan Luks is former executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters in New York City and former director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health. He is an author of The Healing Power of Doing Good (Fawcett Columbine, 1992) and coined the phrase “helper’s high” in Psychology Today to describe feelings of well-being reported by individuals […]

Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist and author of Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Anchor Doubleday, 1994), a Pulitzer Prize nominee. The book is based on the Rescuer Project, commissioned by the American Jewish Committee to determine whether altruism is the opposite of the authoritarian personality. Fogelman approaches altruism as a behavior […]

William Scott Green is a professor of religious studies and holds the Fain Family Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. Beyond Judaic studies, Scott Green has taught and written on philanthropy, altruism and the ethics of technologies in the late modern age.

Subhash Kak is Regents Professor and Head of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He studies and has written extensively on Hinduism, and his research interests include computational intelligence, archaeology of the mind and the history of science.