Mary Ellen Konieczny
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005
Research Interests
Religion, Culture, Social Theory, Family, Political Sociology
Profile
Mary Ellen Konieczny’s research interests revolve around the broad themes of religion and family life, and religion in American democracy. She is particularly interested in exploring how culture and social processes in local contexts intersect with discourse and politics in the public sphere. Her current work includes transforming her dissertation study, an ethnography of liberal and conservative Catholic parishes, into a book tentatively entitled, The Spirit’s Tether: Family, Work and Religion among American Catholics. Her second book project is an historical and qualitative study of religion at the US Air Force Academy in which she explores religion in the military, and the historical changes in and tensions between the disestablishment of religion and its free exercise.
Curriculum Vitae
Mary Ellen Konieczny Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Phone: (574) 631-2781
Fax: (574) 631-9238
Office: 815 Flanner Hall
E-mail: MaryEllen.Konieczny.1@nd.edu
