Revised 2/3/20 CHRISTIAN SMITH Department of Sociology & Center for the Study of Religion and Society 4032 Nanovic Hall, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (574) 631-4531 [email protected] EDUCATION 1984-1990 Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, M.A., Ph.D., Department of Sociology 1983-1984 Harvard Divinity School, one year of M.T.S. program 1980-1983 Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, B.A., Sociology (magna cum laude) 1978-1980 Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois EMPLOYMENT 2006-present William R. Kennan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame 2013-present Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame 2006-2017 Founding Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Notre Dame 2011-2019 Concurrent Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame 2014-2017 Faculty Affiliate, Notre Dame Center for Civil and Human Rights 2013-2014 Faculty Fellow, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame 2008-2014 Founding and Executive Director, Center for Social Research, University of Notre Dame 2012 (spring) Allan Richardson Fellowship, Society of Fellows of Durham University (UK), Honorary Fellow, Department of Theology and Religion, Member, Van Mildert College 2006 (spring) Leverhulme Fellow Visiting Professor and Lecturer, University of Exeter, Devon, UK 2003-2006 Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2000-2005 Associate Chair, Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1999-2003 Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1994-1999 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1989-1994 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Gordon College 1987-1989 Instructor of Sociology, Gordon College PUBLISHED Sociological Books Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk. 2021 [forthcoming]. Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation. New York: Oxford University Press. Christian Smith, Bridget Ritz, and Michael Rotolo. 2019. Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1-CS Christian Smith. 2017. Religion: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s 2018 Distinguished Book Award.) Christian Smith. 2015. To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson. 2014. The Paradox of Generosity: How by Giving We Receive, Why by Grasping We Lose. New York: Oxford University Press. Christian Smith. 2014. The Sacred Project of American Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press. Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, and Kari Christoffersen. 2014. Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church. New York: Oxford University Press. Christian Smith with Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog. 2011. Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Oxford University Press. Christian Smith. 2010. What is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and Moral Good from the Person Up. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (The Choice 2011 Top 25 Academic Books List. Honorable Mention in 2011 American Publisher’s Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Philosophy category; the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for 2010 from the International Association for Critical Realism.) Christian Smith, with Patricia Snell. 2009. Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Young Adults. New York: Oxford University Press. (Winner: Lilly Fellows Book Award 2010-2011; Christianity Today’s 2010 Distinguished Book Award, Christianity & Culture category.) Christian Smith & Michael Emerson, with Patricia Snell. 2008. Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money. Oxford University Press. Christian Smith, with Melinda Lundquist Denton. 2005. Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. New York: Oxford University Press. (Winner Christianity Today’s 2005 Distinguished Book Award, Christianity & Culture category.) Christian Smith. 2003. Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. Christian Smith (Editor). 2003. The Secular Revolution: Power, Interest, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Christian Smith. 2000. Christian America?: What Evangelicals Really Want. Berkeley: University of California Press. Michael Emerson and Christian Smith. 2000. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of 2-CS Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press. (Winner of the 2001 Outstanding Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.) Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy (Editors). 1999. Latin American Religion in Motion. New York: Routledge Publishers. Christian Smith, with Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy, and David Sikkink. 1998. American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Christian Smith. 1996. Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Christian Smith (Editor). 1996. Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social Movement Activism. New York: Routledge Publishers. Christian Smith. 1991. The Emergence of Liberation Theology: Radical Religion and Social Movement Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Translation: 1994. La Teología de la Liberación: Radicalismo Religioso y Compromiso Social. Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Paidós Ibérica.] Philosophically and Theologically Oriented Books Christian Smith. 2018. Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver. New York: Oxford University Press. (Winner of World magazine’s 2018 Science Books of the Year award.) Christian Smith. 2014. Building Catholic Higher Education: Unofficial Reflections From and On the University of Notre Dame. Eugene, OR: Cascade Publishers. Christian Smith. 2011. The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press. Christian Smith. 2011. How to Go From Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in 95 Difficult Steps. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. Articles Heather Price and Christian Smith. 2021 [Forthcoming]. Procedures for Reliable Cultural Model Analysis Using Semi-Structured Interviews.” Field Methods. 33 (2). Christian Smith. 2016. “The Conceptual Incoherence of ‘Culture.’” The American Sociologist. 47(1): 1-28. Christian Smith. 2014. “A Response” (final reply to five essays in a special issue of the journal dedicated to discussing the critical realist personalism of my 2010 book, What is a Person?). Method Journal of Lonergan Studies. 5(1): 129-133. 3-CS Christian Smith, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, José Casanova, Hilary Davidson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, John H. Evans, Philip S. Gorski , Mary Ellen Konieczny, Jason A. Springs, Jenny Trinitapoli, and Meredith Whitnah. 2013. “Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology: A Mellon Working-Group Reflection,” Journal for the American Academy of Religion. December. Pp. 1-36. (The 7th most frequently downloaded JAAR article in 2014; the most frequently downloaded in 2015 and 2016). Christian Smith. 2013. “Comparing Ethical Naturalism and ‘Public Sociology.’” Society: Social Science and Modernity. 50(6): 598-601. Christian Smith. 2012. “Grasping the Big Sociological Picture Shaping the Moral Lives of College Students Today,” Journal of College & Career. 13(3):1-9. Kyle Longest and Christian Smith. 2011. “Conflicting or Compatible: Beliefs About Religion and Science Among Emerging Adults in the United States.” Sociological Forum. 26(4): 846-869. Brandon Vaidyanathan, Jonathon Hill, and Christian Smith. 2011. “Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 50(3): 450-469. Christian Smith. 2010. “Five Proposals for Reforming (Especially Quantitative) Journal Article Publishing Practices in the Social Scientific Study of Religion toward Improving the Quality, Value, and Cumulativeness of Our Scholarship.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 49(4): 583-595. Patricia Snell, Christian Smith, Carlos Tavares, and Kari Christoffersen. 2009. “Denominational Differences in Congregational Youth Ministry Programming and Empirical Evidence of Systematic Non-Response Biases in Surveys.” Review of Religious Research. 51(1): 21-38. Christian Smith. 2008. “Why ‘Why Christianity Works’ Works.” Sociology of Religion. 69(4): 473-488. Steve Vaisey and Christian Smith. 2008. “Catholic Guilt among U.S. Teenagers—A Research Note.” Review of Religious Research. 49(4) 415-426. Christian Smith. 2008. “Future Directions in the Sociology of Religion.” Social Forces. 86(4): 1561-1590. Christian Smith. 2007. “Why Christianity Works: An Emotions-Focused Phenomenological Account.” Sociology of Religion. 68(2): 165-178. Mark Regnerus and Christian Smith. 2005. “Selection Effects and Social Desirability Bias in Studies of Religious Influences.” Review of Religious Research. 47(1): 23-50. Christian Smith and Robert Faris. 2005. “Socioeconomic Inequality in the American Religious System—An Update and Assessment.” Journal for the Scientific