Faculty
David Sikkink
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
Education, Religion, Political, Methods and Statistics
Profile
David Sikkink completed his doctorate in sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and has been at Notre Dame since 1999. His main research interests are in education, religion, and politics. His dissertation explained how religious and community factors shape views of schooling for children, including parents' choice of private schooling and opposition to public schools. It also showed how differences in the organization of public, magnet, Catholic and other religious schools affect parents' participation in school, which in turn affects participation in community and political life.
An associate professor in the sociology department, he is also a Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion at Notre Dame as well as the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
David has a co-authored paper with Kraig Beyerlein on religion and volunteering for 9/11 disaster relief efforts, which is forthcoming in Social Problems. This piece builds on earlier work, including two co-authored articles in Social Forces entitled, “God, Politics, and Protest” and "Voting with the Christian Right.”
David has co-authored paper with Jennifer Glanville on the pathways from religious participation of teenagers to educational outcomes. This article, forthcoming in The Sociological Quarterly, argues that religious participation affects social capital and extracurricular participation of teenagers, which in turn lead to better educational outcomes. David’s publications in religion and education include "The Social Sources of Alienation from Public Schools"(Social Forces).Contact
Phone: (574) 631-2736
Fax: (574) 631-9238
Office: 814 Flanner Hall
E-mail: David.Sikkink.1@nd.edu
Personal Website: http://www.nd.edu/~dsikkink