David is the 2008-09 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Initiative. He has conducted long-term anthropological field research in the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Albania, and his research focuses on the transmission of religious and cultural knowledge, expressions of everyday religious life, and social aspects of religious change in Central Asia and the Balkans.

He is the Coordinator of the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life; was a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the Program on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame; worked as a Legislative Assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives; and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer.