Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, where she is also a Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs.  She has published widely on issues of religion and human rights, democracy, and security in Europe and the United States.  Her publications have appeared in scholarly and policy journals such as European Journal of Political Research, Social Compass, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Orbis, and Survival, as well as in numerous anthologies on Southeastern Europe and religion, democracy, and world affairs.

A regional expert on Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Prodromou has been an invited policy consultant in the United States and Europe, and has received academic awards and grants from Harvard University, New York University, Princeton University, and the Commission of the European Union; she was recently awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the Tufts Alumni Association.

She is the editor, co-editor, or author of forthcoming books on religion and world affairs, on issues of: Church-State Relations in Greece: European Enlargement, Democracy, and Religion; and Thinking through Faith: Perspectives from Orthodox Christian Scholars.

Dr. Prodromou holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as an M.A.L.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. in International Relations and History from Tufts University. She has served as consultant at the U.S. State Department, the Foreign Affairs Training Center of the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Council, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Commissioner Prodromou was appointed to the Commission by then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in October 2004. She served as Commission Vice Chair in 2007, and is currently in her second term on the USCIRF.