Lauren Neilsen

Cohort

2021

Subfields

Cultural Sociology, Gender and Family, Political Sociology, Sociology of Development

Profile

Lauren graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in May of 2021 with a BS in Behavioral Sciences with a sociocultural concentration and a German language minor. She entered the University of Notre Dame’s Sociology PhD program in the fall of 2021. Their research interests include the sociology of gender and religion, especially within the military organizational context. Lauren’s current MA project focuses on how female military chaplains navigate gendered expectations within military chaplaincy on an interpersonal and institutional scale, exploring themes of collective identity negotiation and tokenism.