Title
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Expertise
Sociology of Religion, Culture, Health and Medicine, Immigration, Gender, Sexuality, Research Methods, Buddhism.
Degrees
Princeton University, Ph.D.
Princeton University, M.A.
Swarthmore College, B.A.
Awards and Honors
Michael Walzer '56 Award for Teaching Excellence, Brandeis University (2008)
Radcliffe Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2008)
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (declined) (2008)
Grant, Association of Muslim Health Professionals and Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (2007)
Individual Research Grant, American Academy of Religion (2007)
Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center, Student-Scholar Partnership (2006)
Faculty Fellow, Contextual and Textual Methods Project, Princeton Univeristy Center for the Study of Religion (2006 - 2008)
Spiritual Capital Research Program, Metanexus Institute (2006 - 2008)
General Grant, Louisville Institute (2005 - 2007)
Research Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2004)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, Harvard University (2004 - 2006)
Summer Stipend, Louisville Institute (2004)
Younger Scholar in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture, Indiana University (2004 - 2005)
Marvin Bressler Graduate Student Teaching Award, Sociology Department, Princeton University (2001)
Research Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2001 - 2002)
Teaching Enhancement Fund Grant, American Sociological Association (2001 - 2002)
Princeton Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Graduate Prize Fellowship, Princeton University (2000 - 2002)
Fullbright IIE Fellowship, Sri Lanka (1998 - 1999)
Courses Taught
| SOC | 1a | Order and Change in Society |
| SOC | 118a | Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology |
| SOC | 129a | Sociology of Religion |
| SOC | 169b | Issues in Sexuality |
| SOC | 181a | Methods of Social Inquiry |
| SOC | 211b | Advanced Topics in the Sociology of Religion |
| SOC | 240a | Approaches to Sociological Research |
| SYS | 1c | How Do We Know What We Know? |
| USEM | 78a | Praying for a Cure? Religion, Health, and Healing in America |
Scholarship
