David is the Paul Weber Chair in Politics, Science and Religion at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he also directs the university's Center for Asian Democracy. As an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department, he both teaches and researches the impact of religion on democratic politics worldwide. He served as a 2016-17 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, posted to the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. His book, Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Columbia University Press 2017) won the 2018 International Studies Association's Book Award for Best Book in Religion and International Relations. David is a 2005 Mitchell Scholar. He received a Master's Degree in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University, Belfast. David returned to Ireland in 2011 to conduct case research for his PhD. Thanks to introductions made by the US Ireland Alliance, he was based in the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin as he researched the evolving relationship between religion and politics in an increasingly secular Ireland. David obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia.