Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University
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2020 - Present
DKU Faculty
Assistant Professor of the Practice of DKU Studies at Duke University
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2023 - Present
DKU Studies
Recent Publications
Joining the Choir: Religious Membership and Social Trust among Transnational Ghanaians
Book Review Contemporary Sociology: a journal of reviews · 2019 Link to item CiteDoes religion always help the poor? Variations in religion and social class in the west and societies in the global south
Journal Article Palgrave Communications · June 26, 2018 AbstractFrom Marx’s famous dictum that religion is “the opium of the people” to Weber’s recognition of the dignity reaped by the “religiously musical,” disagreement about both the prosocial and deleterious—even violent—effe ... Full text CiteReligion, Secular Humanism, and Atheism: Multi‐Institutional Politics and the USAFA Cadets’ Freethinkers Group
Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · December 2016 The recent emergence of atheist movements despite marginalization and distrust by a majority of Americans has been explained as a successful deployment of identity politics, but scholars have less often considered the importance of how identity and ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of Notre Dame ·
2018
Ph.D.