The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) is located at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Designed to be multidisciplinary and nonpartisan, the Institute conducts research, lectures and public events.

[3][4] He is the joint editor of the new academic journal Secularism & Nonreligion and was one of the principal investigators of the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS).

[3] Kosmin is considered the leading expert "on the growing percentage of Americas who lack a religious identity, the so called "nones".

The cross-discipline themes include (by year): International Survey: Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists (India 2008)[19]