Alan Cooperman is director of religion research at the

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Early life and education

Cooperman is from Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1982 and started in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.

Career

Before joining Pew Research Center, he was a national reporter and editor at The Washington Post and a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and U.S. News & World Report. During his time at the Associated Press, Cooperman attended

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's resignation speech from the presidency of the

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According to Pew Research Center, he is considered an expert on religion's role and statistics in the

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politics and he has also reported on religion in

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, the Middle East and

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. During his time at Pew Research Center, Cooperman has authored of Mormons in America
Muslim Americansthe U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey“Nones” on the Rise and A Portrait of Jewish Americans.

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