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Hosted by The Heritage Foundation
With Research Partners: Child Trends and the Baylor Institute for the Studies of Religion
9:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Crystal Gateway Marriott
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Speaker Bios
Christopher Bader (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University with interests in criminology and the sociology of religion. His research covers such topics as new religious movements, religion and juvenile delinquency and how conceptions of God influence moral and political attitudes. Recent publications have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sociological Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Sociology of Religion, and Growth and Change.
http://www.baylor.edu/Sociology/index.php?id=21704
Scott A. Desmond (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University. He has published several articles that have appeared in Sociology of Religion, Teaching Sociology, and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. He co-edited Teaching and Learning in Large Classes. He has given many presentations at regional and national conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Association for the Sociology of Religion. His research focuses primarily on how adolescent religiosity inhibits juvenile delinquency, and he is also interested in how neighborhood characteristics contribute to juvenile delinquency and adolescent religious development.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/sociology/directory/?personid=934
David C. Dollahite (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University. His scholarship focuses on religion and family life in the Abrahamic faiths, Latter-day Saint family life, and faith and fathering. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the Dominican University of California, and the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India. He is a Scientific Advisor for the Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He has served on the Utah
Commission on Marriage, the Board of Scholars of the Sutherland Institute, and as president of the Utah Council on Family Relations. He has published nearly 50 scholarly articles and chapters and is co-editor of Helping and Healing Our Families (Deseret Book, 2005), editor of Strengthening Our Families (Bookcraft, 2000), co-editor of Generative Fathering (Sage, 1997), and co-editor of Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life (Bookcraft, 1994).
http://fhss.byu.edu/Faculty/dcd3
V. Jeffery Evans (Ph.D., Duke University; J.D., University of Maryland) is Director of Intergenerational Research with the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD. He is responsible for supervising a portfolio of research dealing with issues regarding families and children, intergenerational behavior and transactions, and socio-economic status and health. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing large-scale projects that provide infrastructure to the field of population research, including the DBSB centers program, the NICHD Family and Child Well-being Research Network, the Science and Ecology of Early Development initiative (SEED 2000), and the NBER IRPG in children’s issues. He has been involved with the creation of large-scale projects that are targeted at specific research problems and yield public use data sets for secondary data analysis and has been instrumental in the support and co-ordination of a number of large-scale projects that relate to the topic of welfare reform and its impact on families and children. He has held leadership positions in the planning and implementation of several large initiatives that include the creation of the Federal Interagency Forum for Child and Family Statistics, the Fatherhood Initiative, The NICHD Health Disparities Strategic Plan, and the NICHD intergenerational research program.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/staff/bio.cfm?nih_id=0010094714
Patrick F. Fagan (Ph.D., University College Dublin) is the William H. G. Fitzgerald Senior Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues at The Heritage Foundation. A former Deputy Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, Patrick Fagan examines the impact of family life and religious practice on the key areas of social policy: health, mental health, education, crime and income. Fagan has served as a legislative analyst for Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN). Before becoming involved in public policy, he was a child, family and marital therapist. A current book project examinesthe dynamics of belonging and rejection in family functioning and the impact of these dynamics on the rest of society: church, school, government and marketplace.
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/PatrickFagan.cfm
Roger Finke (Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle) is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published in numerous social science journals and has co-authored two award-winning books with Rodney Stark: Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (University of California Press, 2000) and The Churching of America, 1776-1990 (Rutgers University Press, 1992; 2005). Finke is now completing cross-national research with Brian Grim and has a forthcoming article in the American Sociological Review on religious regulation and persecution. A book manuscript on the same topic is in progress. Finke is also the founder and director of the Internet-based Association of Religion Data Archives.
http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/history/faculty/finkeRoger.php
Sung Joon Jang (Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York) is Associate Professor of Sociology. His publications focus on the effects of family, school, peers, religiosity, and community on adolescent delinquency and drug use. His latest research examines how religiosity protects an individual from the effects of strain and emotional distress on deviant coping behavior among African American adults. His current study, based on three-wave data collected from a national sample of college students, is intended to examine the effects of spirituality and religiosity on mental health and deviant behaviors among college students.
http://www.baylor.edu/Sociology/index.php?id=50058
Byron Johnson (Ph.D., Florida State University) is Professor Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) as well as director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior, both at Baylor University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton), and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research (San Francisco). Johnson has directed research centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania and is currently conducting a series of studies for the Department of Justice on the role of religion in pro-social youth behavior. His recent publications examine the impact of faith-based programs on recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry. Along with other ISR colleagues he is completing a series of empirical studies on religion in China and is collaborating with other scholars on studies of religious interolerance in America. His research has been used in consultation with the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.baylor.edu/Sociology/index.php?id=21709
Annette Mahoney (Ph.D., University of Houston) is Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. She has published observational and survey-based research on links between marriage, parenting, and child adjustment. Since 1995, she has co-directed the Spirituality and Psychology Research Team (S.P.i.R.i.T.) and her research focuses on the positive and negative roles that religion and spirituality play for individuals and families. In collaboration with Drs. Kenneth I. Pargament and Al DeMaris, she is the principal investigator on a longitudinal study on the spiritual/religious aspects of marriage, pregnancy, and the transition to parenthood (i.e., New Arrivals: Passage to Parenthood Study or NAPPS), a project funded by the Templeton Foundation.
http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/cfdr/about/facultymembers/mahoney.html
Jennifer A. Marshall (M.A., Institute of World Politics) serves as Director of Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. She oversees research education, marriage, family, religion, and civil society. She directs the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society and manages familyfacts.org, an online catalog of social science research relating to family and religious practice. She also works with other Heritage analysts to explore how moral values and civil society relate to issues like limited government, health care, and foreign policy. She is the author of Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the Twenty-First Century (Multnomah Publishers, June 2007), which evaluates the cultural, practical, and spiritual issues that marriage-minded young women confront as the age of first marriage continues to rise in America.
http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/JenniferMarshall.cfm
F. Carson Mencken, Ph.D. (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is Professor of Sociology at Baylor University and Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for the Studies of Religion. His primary areas of expertise are civil society, statistics/research methods, and religion. He is the project director for the Baylor Religion Survey. He has directed research projects from such organizations as the John Templeton Foundation, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the last two years he has had publications in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Growth and Change, and Rural Sociology.
http://www.baylor.edu/Sociology/index.php?id=21711
Kristin Anderson Moore (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, positive development, the determinants and consequences of early sexual activity and parenthood, fatherhood, the effects of family structure and social change on children, and the effects of public policies and poverty on children. She was a founding member of the Task Force on Effective Programs and Research at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, a member of the NICHD Advisory Council, and served as a member of the bipartisan federal Advisory on Welfare Indicators. In 1999, she was awarded the Foundation for Child Development's Centennial Award for her achievements on behalf of children. She also was designated the 2002 Society for Adolescent Medicine Visiting Scholar and received the 2005 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution Award from the Section on Children and Youth. Moore was head of Child Trends from 1992 through 2006, when she chose to return to full-time research. She heads a new area at Child Trends, Research to Results, which aims to bring rigorous research and evaluation to out-of-school time programs.
http://www.childtrends.org/_staffmemdisp_page.cfm?LID=05A6959E-2D9F-470F-804052FAE261DD83
Marc A. Musick (Ph.D., Duke University) is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Associate Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan.. His research examines the effects of social factors, including pro-social activities such as volunteering and religious service attendance, on mental and physical health. A portion of his research focuses on the impact of these activities among older adults and African Americans. His forthcoming book, Volunteers: A Social Profile, examines volunteering patterns and outcomes among adults in America and around the world. His other research has appeared in publications such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal for the Scientific Study of Research, and Social Forces.
http://www.prc.utexas.edu/profiles/musick_m.html
Mark Regnerus (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a faculty associate at the University's Population Research Center. His work emphasizes the mixed outcomes related to religious practice and the multiple contexts in which people experience religion. His book Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American teenagers, paying particular attention to how participating in organized religion shapes sexual decision-making. He is currently working on a pair of book manuscripts, the first on sex in emerging adulthood and the second on how religion shapes the experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford, 2009). Winner of the Best Article Award twice from the American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of Religion, Regnerus is also a collaborator on the National Study of Youth and Religion and on the editorial board of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
http://www.prc.utexas.edu/cssr/faculty_and_postdocs/mark_regnerus.htm
Tom W. Smith (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Society at the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. Since 1980 he has been co-principal investigator of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences and director of its General Social Survey (GSS). He is also co-founder and former Secretary General (1997-2003) of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The ISSP is the largest cross-national collaboration in the social sciences. Smith has taught at Purdue University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the 1994 Worcester Prize by the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for the best article on public opinion, the 2000 and 2003 Innovators Awards of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the 2002 AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement, and Eastern Sociological Society Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociology in 2003.
http://experts.uchicago.edu/experts.php?id=174
Jeffrey T. Ulmer (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania University) is Associate Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice at Penn State University. He has a longstanding interest in the sociology of religion, but has only recently begun conducting empirical research in the area. He has a forthcoming article in The Sociological Quarterly (with Christopher Bader and Martha Gault) on criminal sentencing and local religious contexts and plans to continue to explore the relationships between religion, social learning, and self and social control. His previous work focused on criminal courts and sentencing, criminological theory, recidivism, criminal enterprise, and the integration of ethnographic and quantitative methods. He is the author of Social Worlds of Sentencing: Court Communities Under Sentencing Guidelines (1997, State University of New York Press), and coauthor (with Darrell Steffensmeier) of Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise (2005, Aldine-Transaction) which won the 2006 Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology.
http://www.sociology.psu.edu/faculty/JUlmer.htm
John M. Wallace, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the principal investigator on a Louisville Institute funded project on the impact of crime on clergy and congregations and is a co-investigator on the University of Michigan’s on-going national study of drug use among American young people, Monitoring the Future. His recent research examines the impact of religion as a protective factor against adolescent problem behavior; racial and ethnic disparities in substance abuse; and the role of faith-based organizations in the revitalization of urban communities. Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in numerous professional journals, books and monographs.
http://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/faculty/wallace.html
W. Bradford Wilcox (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. Dr. Wilcox is currently writing a book tentatively titled Soulmates: Religion, Sex, and Marriage in Urban America. He is the author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Wilcox has also published in the American Sociological Review, First Things, the Public Interest, and The Responsive Community. He has previously held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Wilcox’s research on religion and the family has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, and numerous NPR stations.
http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/peopleofsociology/bwilcox.htm
Robert Wuthnow (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is the Andlinger Professor of Social Sciences, Chair of the Sociology Department, and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous publications about American religion and culture, including The Restructuring of American Religion (1988) and After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s (1998). His recent books include America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005), American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short (2006), and After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (2007).
http://www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/people/dir1.html
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