
Biography
Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, contributing editor at Law and Liberty, and editor of The University Bookman. He is author of Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism (2020) and editor of several books.
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