Jim Siegelman

Jim Siegelman is the author of several books about the rise of what he terms cults in America.

Along with Flo Conway, he testified at joint House-U.S. Senate hearings on "cult practices" and also received the Leo J. Ryan Award for his work.

Education

 * B.A., Harvard University, Philosophy (with honors)

Books
With Flo Conway, Siegelman wrote :
 * Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
 * Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives.
 * Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics

Articles

 * Information Disease: Effects of Covert Induction and Deprogramming, by Flo Conway, James H. Siegelman, Carl W. Carmichael, and John Coggins, Update: A Journal of New Religious Movements, 1986

Awards

 * Fiske Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
 * Leo J. Ryan Award, with Flo Conway