Dr. Brad Lockerbie has been appointed as an affiliate member of the Religious Studies Executive Committee at ECU. Among other things the Religious Studies program serves to instruct students in the academic study of religion and to show the relationships between religion and public policy. Lockerbie teaches the political science department’s Religion and American Politics class, as well as having published “Race and Religion: Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes” in Social Science Quarterly and having presented several papers on the topic at various academic conferences.