People


Kraig Beyerlein - Director

Kraig Beyerlein Small

Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame; Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society; Director of Graduate Studies.

Interests: Religion, Civic Engagement, Social Movements, U.S.-Mexico Border


Kevin Christiano

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Associate Professor of Sociology

Interests: American and Canadian Religion, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Canadian Politics


Atalia Omer

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Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies

Interests: Religion, Nationalism, Citizenship, Peacebuilding, Justice, Multiculturalism, Ethnoreligious National Conflicts


David Sikkink

David Sikkink Small

Associate Professor of Sociology
Principal Investigator for the Cardus Religious Schools Initiative

Interests: Religion, Education, Civic Engagement


Christian Smith

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William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology
Principal Investigator for the Global Religion Research Initiative

Interests: Religion in Modernity, Adolescents, Evangelicalism, Culture


Jason Springs

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Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies

Interests: Religious Pluralism, Secularization in Europe and North America, Multiculturalism, Postliberal Theology, Human Rights and Restorative Justice, Contemporary Pragmatism


Erika Summers-Effler

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Associate Professor of Sociology

Interests: Religion, Social Movements, Ethnography, Qualitatitave Methods


Thomas Tweed

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Professor, Harold and Martha Welch Endowed Chair in American Studies


Staff

Peter Ryan

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Associate Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society