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CURRICULUM VITAE Wade Clark Roof BIOGRAPHICAL E-Mail CURRICULUM VITAE Wade Clark Roof BIOGRAPHICAL E-mail: [email protected] Office Address: Department of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, 93106 Telephone: (805) 893-2562 FAX: (805) 893-2059 EDUCATION B.A. Wofford College, 1961 (Magna Cum Laude) M. Div. Yale University, 1964 M.A. University of North Carolina, 1969 (Sociology) Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 1971 (Sociology) HONORARY DEGREES Doctor of Humane Letters, Wofford College, 1997 AWARDS AND HONORS Phi Beta Kappa, Wofford College, 1961. Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship, Yale University, 1961-1962. Lilly Fellowship, Yale University, 1962-63. Population Studies Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1966-1968. National Science Foundation Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1968- 1969. Howard W. Odum Award for Excellence, University of North Carolina, 1969. Faculty Growth Award for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, 1978. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1984 (declined). Visiting Fellow, Harvard Divinity School, Fall, 1984. Teaching Development Award for Religious Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1987-1988. Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, 1988. Invited Participant, Renaissance Weekend, Hilton Head, South Carolina, December 1994-present. 2 Visiting Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April, 1996. Residency, Bellagio Center (Italy), August, 2001; August, 2003 Distinguished Tocqueville/Fulbright Chair in American Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, February-June, 2007. PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Current Position: J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, 1989- present, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999-present; Director, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life. Previous Positions: Professor, 1979-1990; Associate Professor, 1976-1979; Assistant Professor, 1971-1976; Instructor, 1970-1971, all at Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Taught at Duke, Summer, 1970; University of California at Berkeley, Summer, 1981; Vanderbilt, Spring, 1982; University of California at Santa Barbara, Spring, 1985; Yale Divinity School, Spring, 1989. SPECIALTIES Religion and Society Religious Pluralism in the Untied States Research Methods for Studying Religion CURRENT RESEARCH AND WRITING Religious Pluralism in Southern California The Generational Paradigm for the Study of Religion FUNDED RESEARCH Co-Principal Investigator, "Comparative Study of Religion in Panama and North Carolina," Research Division, Episcopal Church, 1969. $7,500. Faculty Research Grants, University of Massachusetts, 1971, and 1974. Co-Principal Investigator, "Segregation and Differentiation: City-Suburb Contrasts," National Science Foundation, 1974-1976, $75,000. Co-Principal Investigator, "Racial Attitudes and Residential Segregation," Social Science Research Council, 1975, $2,500. Co-Principal Investigator, Supplement to "Segregation and Differentiation," National Science Foundation, 1976-1978, $27,000. Principal Investigator, "Socio-Religious Groups in American Society," Hartford 3 Seminary Foundation, 1977-1978, $7,500. Project Director, "Demographic Survey of Hampshire County," Comprehensive Employment and Training Administrative (CETA), Summer 1978, $134,000. Principal Investigator, "Denominationalism in America," Spencer Foundation, 1981- 1983, $5,000. Principal Investigator, "The Future of Liberal Protestantism," Lilly Endowment, 1984- 1985, $31,394. Principal Investigator, Planning Grant, "Study of Mainstream Protestantism," Lilly Endowment, 1987, $21,350. Principal Investigator, "Study of Mainstream Protestantism," Lilly Endowment, 1988- 1990, $251,075. Principal Investigator, "Study of Young Catholics," Lilly Endowment, 1988-1990, $93,885. Principal Investigator, "Religion and Biography," Lilly Endowment, 1991-1992, $78,452. Co-Principal Investigator, "Religious Outsiders on the West Coast," Pew Charitable Trusts, $397,000, 1993-1995. Co-Principal Investigator, "Renegotiating the Social Contract: Religion and Public Life in Los Angeles," Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, $126,000. Co-Principal Investigator, "Religion and Multiethnicity in Los Angeles," Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, $47,177, 1994-1995. Co-Principal Investigator, "Congregations and Civic Culture," Lilly Endowment, $50,522, 1994-1996. Co-Principal Investigator, "Congregations and Generational Cultures," Lilly Endowment, $106,000, 1995-1998. Principal Investigator, "Consultation on Spirituality," Henry Luce Foundation, $16,000, 1997-1998. Principal Investigator, "Religious Pluralism in Southern California," Ford Foundation, $443,000, 2000-2003. Academic Director, American Studies Summer Institute on “Religion in the United States,” Fulbright/U.S. Department of State, $179,795, Summer 2002; $220,000, Summer 2003; $240,000, Summer 2004; $267,000, Summer, 2005; $299,000, Summer 2006. UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE Chair, Advisory Committee, Community and Organization Research Institute, 1995-97 Arts and Lectures Committee, 1992-1994 Committee on Architecture, Planning, and Environment, 1993-1996 Committee on Extended Learning, 1996-1997 Graduate Advisor, Religious Studies, 1996-1999 Director, Center for the Study of Religion, 1993-99 Advisory Board, UCSB Dialogue in Human Values and Public Life, 1997-1998 Graduate Council, 1998-00 4 Advisory Committee, Inter-Disciplinary Humanities Center, 1998-01 Chair, Department of Religious Studies, 1999-2004 Member, Editorial Committee, UC Press, 2000-2005 Director, Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life, 2002-present. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association American Academy of Religion Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Association for the Sociology of Religion Religious Research Association International Society for the Sociology of Religion EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES Associate Editor, Sociological Analysis, 1972-1976. Associate Editor, Review of Religious Research, 1977-present. Associate Editor, Social Forces, 1978-1982. Associate Editor, Religion and American Culture, 1989-1994. American Editor, Social Compass, 1996-present. Associate Editor, Implicit Religion: The Journal, 1998- Reviewer, ASA Rose Monograph Series, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988. Editorial Committee, Monograph Series, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1981-82. Grant Proposal Referee, National Science Foundation, various programs, 1975- present; Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1995, 1997. Journal Referee: American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Journal of the American Academy of Religion; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion; Public Opinion Quarterly; Social Forces; Social Problems; Social Science Quarterly; Social Science Research; Society; Sociological Focus; Sociological Quarterly; Sociology and Social Research; Soundings; Theological Education; Urban Affairs Quarterly; Gender and Society. General Editor, Series on "Religion, Culture, and Society," SUNY Press, 1987-97. THE MEDIA (National and International Only) Interview, The New York Times, quotes on front page, November 11, 1979 Consultant, CBS Documentary, “The Unchurched in America,” April, 1981 Press Release on "Church Membership Trends," carried by UPI and approximately 800 papers in US, Canada, and Australia, June, 1982. Featured in The New York Times, June 15, 1982 5 Interview, National Public Radio, August 5, 1982 Interview, Commonwealth Journal, September 22, 1982 Interview, Newsweek, story and quotes carried in On Campus edition, May, 1983 Interview, U.S. News and World Report, story and quotes, March 4, 1985 and June 24,1985 Interview, "Voice of America Radio," April 23, 1985 "Religious Switching," data reported in Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1985 "Images of God," data reported in Harpers, January, 1985; Psychology Today, June, 1985; USA Today, June 24, 1985, and scores of newspapers Interview, The New York Times, story and quotes in magazine section, September 1, 1985 Interview, Newsweek, story on research, December 22, 1986 "Religion in America," five commentaries for Catholic Religious Network, February- March, 1988 Interview, CBS News "48 Hours," March 24, 1988 Interview, Time, story on "Mainline Protestantism," May 22, 1989 Interview, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1989 "And the Children Shall Lead Them," cover story in Newsweek, quotes and data graphs, December 17, 1990 Interview, "London Weekend Television," BBC, May 12, 1991 Boomer data graphed on "NBC Nightly News," June 15, 1991 Interview, CNN, July 17, 1991 Interview, Associated Press, September 23, 1991 Interview, The New York Times, October 2, 1991 Interview, The Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1991 Interview, The New York Times, May 14, 1992 Television Interview, CNN, June 5, 1992 Television Interview, "Golden Dome Productions," PBS, June 26, 1992 Interview, Time, cover story, April 5, 1993 CNN Television Program, "Sonia Live," April 15, 1993 "Conversations," The New York Times, May 30, 1993 Interview, "MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour," December 23, 1993 Interview, The New York Times, December 26, 1993. Front-page quote Interview, "Good Morning America," CBS, May 2, 1994 Interview, "Voice of America," November 10, 1994 Interview, The New York Times, February 5, 1995. Interview, "Talk of the Nation," NPR, February 28, 1995 Interview, Washington Post, June4,1995 Interview, Australian National Radio, June 23, 1995 Interview, USA Today,
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