Happenings
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Making Parishes Personal: Crisis Magazine story about my new book
Read K. E. Colombini’s thoughtful piece in Crisis Magazine engaging ideas from my new book, Parish and Place: Making Parishes Personal I look forward to continuing the conversation as folks read my book in full (out by e-book now; hardback and… Continue reading
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Crux Story about my new book (out soon!), Parish & Place
Thanks to Fordham University professor / Crux columnist Charles Camosy for interviewing me about my forthcoming book, Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church. In this article (part I of II), we discuss how personal… Continue reading
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Writing, and more writing…
Summer time means writing time (actually, every season is writing season!). As I work to complete bigger projects this summer, here are links to a few smaller publications I’ve completed recently: My essay contribution to a review symposium of The… Continue reading
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Academic Year 2016-2017, Wrapped.
This semester wraps my 10th year teaching at Maryville College. Among this year’s teaching highlights was attending the “New Directions in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies” conference at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with several of my students from Introductory Sociology and… Continue reading
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Parish and Place
The listing for my new book, Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church is now up on the Oxford University Press website, available for pre-order! Continue reading
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Status update on my new book, Parish and Place
I am pleased to report that I have now received the fully copyedited manuscript from Oxford University Press for my forthcoming book, Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church. This expected release date for the… Continue reading
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Soliciting Nominations for Sociology of Religion Book Award (3/1/17 deadline)
From the American Sociological Association Section on Religion: DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2017 Distinguished Book Award. The award honors a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion.… Continue reading
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New Chapter about Preserving Catholic Churches in Changing Urban Settings
Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat (Edited by Victoria Hegner, Peter Jan Margry) is now out with Routledge Press! The chapter I authored – “Preserving Catholic Space and Place in ‘The Rome of the… Continue reading
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Panel on Asian American Catholics at the American Academy of Religion
It was a pleasure to participate in today’s conversation about Asian American Catholics, stemming from the report I co-authored with Drs. Stephen Cherry and Jerry Park. At a special panel of the American Academy of Religion – sponsored by the… Continue reading
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“In A Divided America, Ideas For Healing A Divided Church”
I sat down recently with Brandon Hollingsworth at Knoxville’s local NPR station, WUOT, to talk about the realities of and responses to polarization during this election season. Our conversation builds upon the essays featured in my recently published co-edited volume,… Continue reading



