ELAINE HOWARD ECKLUND Rice University Sociology Department, MS-28 P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 Phone: 713-348-6761 Email: [email protected] August 1, 2019 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2013-Present Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Rice University. 2013-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2011-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2008-2011 Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Rice University. 2006-2008 Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY. 2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, Rice University. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP 2018-2019 President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. 2010-Present Founding Director, Religion and Public Life Program, Rice University. 2017-Present Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2013-2015 Director, Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance, Rice University. 2011-2014 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2008-2009 Associate Director, Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life, Rice University. AFFILIATE ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS 2018 Gifford Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2018-Present Faculty Affiliate, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. 2014-Present Faculty Affiliate, Department of Religion, Rice University. 2010-Present Rice Scholar, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. EDUCATION 2001-2004 Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University, August, 2004. 2001-2002 Visiting Graduate Student Fellow, Princeton University. 1998-2001 MA, Sociology, Cornell University, January, 2001. 1991-1995 BS, Human Development, Cornell University, May, 1995. MAJOR GRANTS 2018-2020 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (Christopher P. Scheitle, Co-PI), “Religion-Related Bias Victimization: Addressing a Blind-Spot,” National Science Foundation ($249,998, Grant #1753972). 2017-2021 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (Denise Daniels, Co-PI), “Faith at Work: An Empirical Assessment,” Lilly Endowment, Inc. ($1,500,000, Grant #2017 0021). 2017-2020 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, “Reaching Evangelical American Leaders to Change Hearts and Minds (REAL CHANGE),” Templeton Religion Trust ($216,155, Grant #TRT0191). 2017-2018 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (David R. Johnson, Co-PI), “Communicating Outlooks for a New Global Religion and Science Synergy: The Interpretive Challenge (CONGRESS I),” Templeton Religion Trust ($233,766, Grant #TRT0157). 2012-2015 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, (Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven Lewis, Co-PIs), “Ethics among Physicists in Cross-National Context (EASIC),” National Science Foundation ($299,688, Grant #1237737). 2012-2015 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, “Religious Understandings of Science (RUS),” John Templeton Foundation ($1,087,000, Grant #38817). 2012-2015 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven Lewis, Co-PIs), “Religion among Scientists in International Context (RASIC) – A Supplement Request for Including Scientists in India,” Templeton World Charity Foundation ($366,714). 2012-2015 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, (Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven Lewis, Co-PIs), “Religion among Scientists in International Context (RASIC),” Templeton World Charity Foundation ($2,057,000, Grant #TWCF0033/AB14). 2009 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (Anne E. Lincoln, Southern Methodist University, Co-PI), “Perceptions of Women in Academic Science,” National Science Foundation ($55,154, Grant #GSE0920837), additional competitive grant in support of existing research. 2007-2011 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI (Anne E. Lincoln, Southern Methodist University, Co-PI), “Perceptions of Women in Academic Science,” National Science Foundation ($299,334, Grant #GSE0920837). 2 Elaine Howard Ecklund 2007-2010 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, (Michael O. Emerson, Rice University, Co-PI) “Religion and the Changing Face of American Civic Life,” Russell Sage Foundation ($190,149, Grant #88-07-10). 2006 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, “Religion among Academic Scientists,” The John Templeton Foundation ($10,000), additional merit-based grant made in support of existing research. 2005-2009 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, PI, “Religion and Spirituality among Natural and Social Scientists at Elite Research Universities,” The John Templeton Foundation ($283,549). BOOKS 2019 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin R. W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Di Di, Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion, Oxford University Press. 2017 Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Christopher Scheitle, Religion Vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think, Oxford University Press (Reviews in Publishers Weekly, Patheos, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Theos Think Tank, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Sociology of Religion). 2016 Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Anne E. Lincoln, Failing Families, Failing Science: Work- Family Conflict in Academic Science. New York: New York University Press (Reviews in Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, PsycCRITIQUES, Social Forces, Sociologie du Travail, Sex Roles, American Journal of Sociology). 2010 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Science Vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (Reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Discover Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Books and Culture, Times Higher Education, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Beliefnet, New York Journal of Books, Library Journal, Christianity Today, Social Forces, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith). 2006 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (Reviews in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Sociology of Religion, Christian Century, Evangelical Studies Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, and American Journal of Sociology). PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 2019 Sorrell, Katherine, Simranjit Khalsa, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Michael O. Emerson, “Immigrant Identities and the Shaping of a Racialized American Self,” forthcoming, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 2019 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Daniel Bolger, “A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and A Riff,” forthcoming, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 2019 Bolger, Daniel, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Selection Versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science,” Sociological 3 Elaine Howard Ecklund Perspectives, published online: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/iZQGAXeHmeefkAWJtdDy/full. 2019 Sorrell, Katherine, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “How UK Scientists Legitimize Religion—and Science—Through Boundary Work,” Sociology of Religion, published online: https://academic.oup.com/socrel/advance-article/doi/10.1093/socrel/sry047/5253740. 2019 Peifer, Jared L., David R. Johnson, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “The Moral Limits of the Market: Science Commercialization and Religious Traditions,” Journal of Business Ethics 157(1):183-197. 2018 Tinsley, Cleve IV, Pamela J. Prickett, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Black Protestant Views of Science,” Du Bois Review 15(2):533-546. 2018 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Christopher P. Scheitle, and Jared Peifer, “The Religiosity of Academic Scientists in the United Kingdom: Assessing the Role of Discipline and Department Status,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57(4):743-757. 2018 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Christopher P. Scheitle, “Scientists” in The Warfare between Science and Religion, The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Di Di, “Global Spirituality Among Scientists” in Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s), edited by William B. Parsons, Routledge. 2018 Scheitle, Christopher P., and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Perceptions of Religious Discrimination among U.S. Scientists,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57(1):139-155. 2018 Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Naturally Ambivalent: Religion’s Role in Shaping Environmental Action,” Sociology of Religion 79(4):472-494. 2018 Scheitle, Christopher P., David R. Johnson, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Scientists and Religious Leaders Compete for Cultural Authority of Science,” Public Understanding of Science 27(1):57-75. 2018 Johnson, David, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Structural Strain in Science: Organizational Context, Career Stage, Discipline, and Role Composition,” Sociological Inquiry 88(1):5-31. 2018 Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley IV, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health,” Review of Religious Research 60(3):389-402. 2018 Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches,” Review of Religious Research 60(1):49-70. 2018 Johnson, David, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Di Di, and Kirstin Matthews, “Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (Mis)representation of Science,” Public Understanding of Science 27(5):535-549. 4 Elaine Howard Ecklund 2017 Di, Di, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists,”