Public Work

Selected Public Writing & Commentary

• Christian Nationalism and Massachusetts. WBUR Boston.

• Not religious, not voting? The ‘nones’ are a powerful force in politics – but not yet a coalition - The Conversation

• Yoga versus democracy? What survey data says about spiritual Americans’ political behavior - The Conversation

• What Does American Identity Mean? A Cultural Legacy of Pluralism and Exclusion - Public Religion Research Institute Research Spotlight

• Do many Americans believe in the ‘great replacement’ theory? - The Monkey Cage (co-authored with PRRI Public Fellows)

• The Politics of Unaffiliated Americans - Public Religion Research Institute Research Spotlight

• Smoothing the rough places: Infrastructure as an act of secular love - OnlySky Media

PRRI Public Fellows

“The PRRI Public Fellows program, created in 2017 with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of emerging scholar-leaders from across the humanities and social sciences. The program expanded in academic year 2021-2022 as part of PRRI’s Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative with renewed support from the Luce Foundation and an additional grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program now includes 16 diverse scholars each year working across the four major areas of PRRI’s work, including religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism; racial justice and white supremacy; immigration and migration studies; and LGBTQ rights.”

Sociological Images

Founded by Lisa Wade, and part of The Society Pages network, SocImages is the largest popular sociology website in the United States. I have served as the editor and principal author of the site since mid-2017.