FACULTY & STAFF
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Faculty
Nancy T. Ammerman | Professor
Emily Barman | Associate Professor
Jeff Coulter | Professor
Susan Eckstein | Professor
Julian Go | Associate Professor
Alya Guseva | Associate Professor
Stephen Kalberg | Associate Professor
Nazli Kibria | Associate Professor
Ashley Mears | Assistant Professor
Sigrun Olafsdottir | Assistant Professor
Laurel Smith-Doerr | Associate Professor
John Stone | Professor
David Swartz | Assistant Professor
Peter Yeager | Associate Professor
Part-time Faculty
Susan Holsapple| Adjunct Professor
Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Peter Berger
Sally Whelan Cassidy
Adelaide M. Cromwell
Mark G. Field
S.M Miller
Paule Verdet
Eugene Walter
Senior Teaching Fellows
Cara Bowman | Economic Sociology
Courtney Feldscher | The Workplace
Itai Vardi | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations
Roman R. Williams
Lecturer and Senior Teaching Fellow
Sociology 260-D | rrw@bu.edu
BIO AND RESEARCH
My research and teaching interests stand at the intersection where identity and agency meet religion, culture, and globalization. My dissertation research explores these themes by investigating the ways in which Christianity and culture shape identity and inform action among international students from the top five non-western countries of origin studying in the United States.
I am also pursuing questions of religion, culture, and identity in my work with Nancy Ammerman and a team of researchers on the “Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life” project, a Templeton Foundation funded study based at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. This project explores how religious and spiritual understandings operate across the many domains of daily lived experience. My work draws from photo elicitation interviews to explore how people construct sacred space at home, work, and play.
