Welcome,
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.
My research focuses on cultural and institutional change in liberal democracies since the 1960s--with a focus on the spheres of religion, morality, work, and politics.
My first book, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2022, examines the social and political implications of the shift from "religion" to "spirituality," which has, in recent years, transformed the religious landscape of the West.
Since completing this project, I have turned my attention to investigating the religious and cultural dimensions of the growing "diploma divide" in Canada, unearthing the symbolic boundaries that urban university-educated professionals and rural nonuniversity-educated workers draw in their personal and professional lives.
I have published academic articles in journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Civic Sociology, Religion, European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Cultural Sociology, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, and The Sociological Review, and regularly contribute to media outlets such as The Conversation. Check out some of my articles on my Publications page.
Please feel free to browse my website. And should you require any further information, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Click here for my C.V.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.
My research focuses on cultural and institutional change in liberal democracies since the 1960s--with a focus on the spheres of religion, morality, work, and politics.
My first book, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2022, examines the social and political implications of the shift from "religion" to "spirituality," which has, in recent years, transformed the religious landscape of the West.
Since completing this project, I have turned my attention to investigating the religious and cultural dimensions of the growing "diploma divide" in Canada, unearthing the symbolic boundaries that urban university-educated professionals and rural nonuniversity-educated workers draw in their personal and professional lives.
I have published academic articles in journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Civic Sociology, Religion, European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Cultural Sociology, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, and The Sociological Review, and regularly contribute to media outlets such as The Conversation. Check out some of my articles on my Publications page.
Please feel free to browse my website. And should you require any further information, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Click here for my C.V.