Curriculum Vitae KEVIN JAMES CHRISTIANO Associate Professor of Sociology University of Notre Dame
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REVISED: April 17, 2021 Curriculum Vitae KEVIN JAMES CHRISTIANO Associate Professor of Sociology University of Notre Dame Office Residence Department of Sociology 1940 Bridgeview Trail, 4060 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls Apartment A University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana 46637-5416 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-7000 U. S. A. U. S. A. (574) 272-7126 (574) 631-7371 or 631-6463 (messages) (574) 631-9238 (FAX) e-mail: <[email protected]> EDUCATION Ph.D. 1983 Princeton University Department of Sociology M.A. 1980 Princeton University Department of Sociology B.A., with 1977 College of William and Mary Highest Concentration (Major): Sociology Honors Sequence (Minor): French Literature AREAS Sociology of Religion Urban Social History Society and Politics of Québec and Canada Sociology of Culture Labor Movements and Their Leaders Classical Social Thought Social Stratification LANGUAGES English (native speaker); French (good listening comprehension and reading skills, fair at speaking and writing); Latin. 1-KC Christiano, Kevin James PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Appointment History Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (1989 - ): Affliated Faculty Member, Monsignor George G. Higgins Labor Studies Program, Center for Social Concerns (2011 - ); Chairperson, Department of Sociology (1992-1994); Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology (1989-1992); Visiting Scholar, Canadian Studies Center / Centre d'études canadiennes, Duke University (Spring, 1995); and Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Duke University (Fall, 1994). Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (1983-1989): Senior Undergraduate Advisor [Director of Undergraduate Studies], Department of Sociology(1987-1989); and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University (Fall, 1986; and Spring, 1987). Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University (Spring, 1982). Assistant in Instruction (Sociology), Princeton University (Fall, 1979; and Spring, 1980). Teaching Record At the University of Notre Dame, have taught, at the undergraduate level: Freshman Studies 180: "Church, State, and Society in America," Freshman Studies 180: "'America's Attic' -- The Society and Culture of Canada," Social Science University Seminar 180E (13181): "The Sociological Imagination" (designated a writing-intensive course), Sociology 102: "Introduction to Sociology," Sociology 102 (10002, 20002): "Understanding Societies" (in-person; online [asynchronous and synchronous]), Sociology 10672 (20672): "Deities, Denominations, and Diversity: Sociology of Religious Life" (in-person; online [asynchronous and synchronous]), 2-KC Christiano, Kevin James Sociology 302: "Methods of Research," Sociology 304: "Principles of Sociology," Sociology 30900: "Foundations of Sociological Theory" (in-person; online [asynchronous]; designated a writing-intensive course), Sociology 315: "Class, Status, and Power," Sociology 372: "Religion in American Society," Sociology 372 (30672): "Religion and Social Life," Sociology 43600: "Religion in Classical Sociological Theory," Sociology 43600: "Society and Spirit: Religion in Classical Social Thought," Sociology 48009: "Sociology Honors Capstone Project," Sociology 485: "Sociology of Religion, I," and Sociology 495: "Independent Study"; and, at the graduate level: Sociology 551 (63651): "Sociology of Religion, I," Sociology 552: "Sociology of Religion, II," Sociology 53911 (63911): "Classical Social Theory," Sociology 652 (73652): "Sociology of Religion, II," Sociology 653, 697 (76097): Directed Readings -- "Congregational Studies," -- "Methods of Teaching," -- "Qualitative Research Methods," -- "Religion and New Immigrants," -- "Religion in Post-Soviet Europe," and -- "Sociology of Religion," Sociology 701 (73081): "Teaching Seminar," and Sociology 702: "Teaching Practicum." At Princeton University, assisted in, at the undergraduate level: Sociology 201: "Human Society, Continuity and Crisis." Supervisor: Professor Marvin Bressler Sociology 212: "Social Structure, Culture, and Personality." Supervisor: Professor Howard F. Taylor Sociology 319: "Large-Scale Organizations, Bureaucracy, and the Corporation." Supervisor: Professor John Joseph Burns 3-KC Christiano, Kevin James AWARDS and HONORS J. Milton Yinger Lifetime Award for a Distinguished Career in Sociology, conferred by the North Central Sociological Association (presented March 29, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio): According to the Association, "The principal criterion for this award is an extraordinary career in some activity that has furthered the work of sociology as a discipline. A person might be nominated for exemplary work in any one of the areas, or for uncommon contributions in two or more of these areas: * Scholarly Contributions,. * Public or Applied Sociology,. * Sociological Teaching and Learning, . and * Exemplary Service Within the Region" (which consists of eastern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the Canadian province of Ontario). Prix du Québec, conferred by the Ministère des Relations inter- nationales et de la Francophonie of the Gouvernement du Québec in association with the American Council for Québec Studies (presented November 4, 2016, in Portland, Maine): The Prix du Québec has been awarded at two-year intervals since 1994 to a U.S.-based humanist or social scientist to recognize a career of distinguished academic contributions to the study of Québec and francophone North America, and to acknowledge a record of service to fellow scholars in the field. Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, The Graduate School, Princeton University (1980-1981): One of seven students from across the University's 52 graduate departments and programs to be so recognized for "outstanding performance and professional promise." National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship in Sociology (1977-1980): One of eleven predoctoral students of sociology in the United States selected in 1977 for three years of support by NSF. Highest Honors in Sociology, College of William and Mary (1977): One of nine William and Mary seniors in 1977 to receive the bachelor's degree with highest honors. 4-KC Christiano, Kevin James Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society (1976). GRANTS Supplemental Research and Teaching Grant, Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (March 22, 2002): For "faculty members . who had extraordinary years in terms of scholarship or teaching or both; colleagues who had provided exemplary service to their department, the College, or the University; or colleagues whose research projects would greatly benefit from additional research support." Research Materials Grant, Special Project Initiatives, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (January 26, 1993): Awarded a grant to help defray the expense of reproducing archival photographs for use as illustrations in a biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the former Canadian prime minister. PUBLICATIONS Books Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (with William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto). Illus. * First Paperback Text Edition; Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press; Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2001 [© 2002]. Pp. xiv + 365. [ISBN-10 0-7591-0035-7; ISBN-13 978-0- 7591-0035-0]. ". this excellent book may well be the best text on the sociology of religion in print." -- Lutz F. Kaelber (Univer- sity of Vermont) in Teaching Sociology (October, 2002). * Second Paperback Text Edition (Revised and Expanded); Lanham, Md., and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. Pp. xiv + 374. [ISBN-10 0-7425-6111-9; ISBN-13 978-0- 7425-6111-3]. ". the new edition is a worthwhile improvement." -- R. Stephen Warner (University of Illinois at Chicago) in the Review of Religious Research (June, 2010). 5-KC Christiano, Kevin James * Third Text Edition (Revised and Expanded); Lanham, Md., and Boulder, Colo.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2015 [© 2016]. Pp. x + 399. [ISBN-13 978-1-4422-1691-4 (Cloth); 978-1-4422-1692-1 (Paper); 978-1-4422-1693-8 (e-book)]. "The third edition is livelier: . recent controver- sies are well-covered, . and the final section explores neopaganism, gods and goddesses." -- Abby Day (University of London [England]) in Religion (January, 2019). * Fourth Text Edition (Revised and Expanded); Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2023 [?]. Approx. Pp. x + 400. See: <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442216914/Sociology-of-Religion -Contemporary-Developments-Third-Edition>. In its first six years of publication, adopted as a course text at, among other institutions: The University of Alabama at Huntsville, the University of Arizona (Tucson), Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachu- setts), The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), the University of California at Berkeley, The College of Charleston (South Carolina), Colorado College (Colorado Springs), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), Kultur- wissenschaftliche Fakultät of the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt [Oder] (Germany), the University of Idaho (Moscow), the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, North Carolina State University (Raleigh), Portland (Oregon) State University, Rice University (Houston, Texas), St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the University of Toronto at Scarborough (Ontario, Canada), and Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan).