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Jessica Collett, an associate professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Sociology, has been chosen to receive the 2017 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award. The highest teaching honor in the College of Arts and Letters, the Sheedy Award was created in 1970 to honor Rev. Charles E. Sheedy, C.S.C., who served as dean of Arts and Letters from 1951 to 1969. Collett will accept the award at a reception in her honor in December.

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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money  by Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson, and Patricia Snell Herzog was mentioned the Christianity Today  article titled "The…

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Dr. Christian Smith was quoted in the New York Times on Aug 2, 2017 in an article titled "Trump…

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Christian Smith's recent book Religion: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters was featured in the New York Times book review. 

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Ruth Braunstein will be our guest speaker, March 26, 2018 at 12:30pm. Her talk is titled Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide.

Ruth is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. A cultural sociologist interested…

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Jeanine A. Becker Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper 2017 Co-Winners:

“Global Secular Elites? Religious Identities, Context-Based Knowledge,and Meaning-Making Processes within UN Spaces” by Shanna Corner

and

“Information Transmission in situ: Communication…

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Charles Kurzman will be our guest speaker, October 11, 2017 at 12:30pm in 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls.  Charles is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his interests include Political Sociology, Social Movements, Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Catholic and Evangelical high schools in the United States produce graduates who tend to volunteer and donate more to charity as adults.

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In this first round of competition, the GRRI received over 150 research proposals from scholars at 100 colleges and universities around the world. The submissions were reviewed by leading social science scholars and 48 of the proposals were awarded funding this 2017 round.

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