Faculty
Kevin J. Christiano
Associate Professor
Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1983
Research Interests
Sociology of Religion; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Canadian Society and Politics.
Profile
Kevin J. Christiano joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1983 after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton (1986-1987) and in the Canadian Studies Center at Duke University (1994-1995).
He is the author or co-author of three books. Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890-1906 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) was hailed by Contemporary Sociology as “a model for the analytic sociological use of census data,” while the American Historical Review called it a “sophisticated study . . . [that] link[s] complex statistical analysis to supple sociological theorizing.”
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Reason Before Passion (Toronto: ECW Press, 1994 and 1995) has been reprinted in large type and used as a course text in Canadian Studies. Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (co-authored with William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto [Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002; Lanham, Md., and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, 2008]) was praised by Teaching Sociology as “an excellent book [that] may well be the best text on the sociology of religion in print.” His articles have appeared in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, the Archives de sciences sociales des religions [Paris], The American Review of Canadian Studies, Social Science History, Teaching Sociology, and several collections.
Professor Christiano is a Past President of both the American Council for Québec Studies (2003-2005) and the Association for the Sociology of Religion (2005-2006). In addition, he has served on the Executive Councils of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Section on the Sociology of Religion of the American Sociological Association and as a Director-at-Large of the Religious Research Association. He currently is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Religion Section of the ASA , Chair of the Finance Committee of the North Central Sociological Association, and an Associate Editor of Social Compass and Québec Studies. At the same time he is a member of the boards of Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française and Sociological Focus.
Contact
Phone: (574) 631-7371 / 631-6463 (Messages)
Fax: (574) 631-8209
Office: 443 Decio Faculty Hall
E-mail: Kevin.J.Christiano.1@nd.edu