SSRI Religion and Social Science Interest Group
List of Members
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| Researcher's Name | Research Interests |
| Afifi, Walid | interpersonal communication; uncertainty management; information seeking |
| Alwin, Duane | demography of the life course; religion and the life course; religious change; comparative studies of religion |
| Aronson, Keith | Assisting interdisciplinary research teams develop fundable studies in the social sciences via the Social Science Research Institute. |
| Bahry, Donna | postcommunist politics; interethnic relations; religion and politics |
| Baker, David | education; stratification/mobility; organizations--formal/complex |
| Berrena, Elaine | Religion and families |
| Booth, Alan | how religion influences the quality and stability of family relations |
| Boyd , William | education policy; education reform; religion and education policy |
| Brelsford, Gina | religion and spirituality in the family |
| Carroll, Jack | electronic voting; community informatics; community emergency management |
| Clark, Paul | labor, work, and religion |
| Coleman, Major | race and religion |
| Continenza, Denise | Family strengths |
| Eckhardt, Caroline D. | Myth and religious narratives as reflecting, and influencing, behavior; would like to know of any funding opportunities |
| Eggebeen, David | fatherhood; intergenerational relations; emerging adulthood |
| Finke, Roger | historical and comparative study of religion; theory |
| Flanagan, Connie | youth civic engagement and sense of purpose; political activism; social justice |
| Forthun, Larry | Religiousness and spirituality as mediators/moderators of substance use and other risk behaviors |
| Francis Stauffer, Lori | preventing childhood obesity |
| Gilreath, Tamika | adolescent substance use within minority populations |
| Glenna, Leland | Religious and market fundamentalism |
| Grim, Brian | international religion; religious freedom; survey methodology; religious regulation; focus groups |
| Hade, Daniel | children's literature; commercialization of childhood as a spiritual issue; notions of evil as represented in children's fantasy literature |
| Hayes, Jeff | psychology/psychotherapy and spirituality |
| Hufford, David | spirituality/religion & health; spiritual experience; complementary & alternative medicine |
| Ingram, Patreese | diversity education |
| Jackson, Kimya | the interrelationship between physical disability, depressive symptomatology, and religious behaviors among very old African Americans |
| Jackson, Sr., Andrew | Economic and community development |
| Jensen, Leif | immigration; poverty; social welfare policy; labor force |
| Kerstetter, Deb | social networks; place attachment |
| King, Valarie | fathers and children; child well-being; divorce; religion and family behavior; grandparents and grandchildren; cohabitation among older adults |
| Lefkowitz, Eva | Development during adolescence and the transition to adulthood, including religiosity (and sexuality, gender role development, body image, etc.) |
| Matthews, Stephen | GIS; contextual data; project on religious landscapes in Chicago |
| Mengisteab, Kidane | political economy of development; inter-state and intra-state conflicts; globalization and its implications |
| Milacci, Fred | |
| Moore, Gregory | behavioral neuroimaging; MRI, MRS, fMRI; neuropharmacology; neuroscience; theology |
| Morais, Duarte | religious tourism; cultural (religion) impacts of tourism |
| Plutzer, Eric | voting; public opinion; education policy |
| Post, David | child labor and academic achievement |
| Ray, Charles | wood industry operations research, knowledge engineering |
| Schafer, Joe | longitudinal data; missing values; latent variable modeling |
| Schement, Jorge | Social uses of information; technologies; information policy |
| Silver, Eric | violence, mental health, and community effects |
| Steffensmeier, Darrell | individual and social-ecological predictors of crime/delinquency by gender, race/ethniticity, and age |
| Stoppa, Tara | Religion during adolescence and emerging adulthood |
| Taylor, Marylee | race/ethnicity |
| Tuana, Nancy | issues of gender/feminism and religion |
| Uhde, Thomas | anxiety and stress |
| Wanner, Cathy | evangelicalism; migration; nationalism; post-socialism; Ukraine; USSR |
| Weaver, Robert D. | economics of collaboration and voluntary provision of public goods |
| Winchell, Megan E. | adolescent and parent child relationships; influence of religiosity on family processes |
| Yang, He | life of college students, focus on non-class time use and activities |
| Yarnal, Careen | leisure across the lifespan; older women and play; serious leisure |
| Zelinsky, Wilbur | cultural and social geography; historical geography of North America; population geography |
