Dr. Zurlo’s scholarship is interdisciplinary in nature, intersecting history, sociology, and World Christianity. She is currently a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.
Dr. Zurlo holds a Ph.D. from Boston University School of Theology (Boston, MA) where she studied under the direction of Dana L. Robert and Todd M. Johnson. Her dissertation was on the role of quantification in the development of World Christianity, specifically through the work of Anglican missionary to Kenya, David B. Barrett. She was named one of the BBC’s 100 most influential and inspiring women of 2019 for her work in studying religious statistics, and, in particular, the female future of religion worldwide.
As editor of the World Christian Database (Brill), Dr. Zurlo tracks changes in religious and non-religious affiliation in every country of the world in the past, present, and future. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, founded by sociologist Peter Berger, where she edits the World Religion Database (Brill).
Gina Zurlo, Ph.D. 