Tricia C. Bruce, PhD

Sociologist. Author. Researcher. Speaker.

Tricia C. Bruce, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, a 2025-2026 Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Religion & Society at the University of Notre Dame, President-Elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and a five-time marathoner. She served previously as President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, a papal-appointed consultor to the Synod on Synodality, and a tenured professor. She is the author of numerous award-winning books, articles, and reports in the sociology of religion and U.S. Catholicism.

Happenings

  • My Interview with WBIR about LGBT Workplace Rights

    A recent Human Rights Campaign report that found that more than half of gay employees hide their identities while at work. Knoxville’s WBIR-TV Live at Five invited me in-studio to provide some sociological context for understanding LGBT rights in the workplace. Click… Continue reading

  • My Interview in Marginalia Review of Books

    On the occasion of Faithful Revolution’s release in paperback, I sat down with Phillip Sherman of Marginalia Review of Books (a Los Angeles Review of Books Channel). We talked about the emergence and impact of Voice of the Faithful as… Continue reading

  • Cohabitation, Babies, and Diversity in Families

    Knoxville’s WBIR TV invited me into the station to comment on new data revealing a further decline in “shotgun weddings” and increase in cohabitation. Continue reading

  • Visualizing New Research in Religion

    The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion will soon hold its annual meeting in Boston (Nov 8-10). As the 2013 Program Chair, I know well the variety of innovative research on religion that will make this meeting great. Visualized… Continue reading

  • Pope Francis and “Elite” Interviewing in Social Science

    We received today from the Jesuit Catholic magazine America a gift, in the form of a 12,000 word, candid interview with Pope Francis. Read the full article here. Sociologists employ a variety of methods to better understand the social world;… Continue reading

  • Guest TV Appearance on Immigration Reform

    http://www.wbir.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=2325327418001 Knoxville’s WBIR/NBC affiliate invited me to share a social science perspective on newly proposed immigration reforms. The live interview also incorporates comments from a student in my Spring 2013 Immigration/Perspectives on the Social Sciences class, which has been quite… Continue reading

  • Faithful Revolution (Oxford Bestseller)

    My book is featured as a bestseller in the Spring 2013 Religion Catalog from Oxford University Press. Continue reading

  • The Election of a Pope

    Today is a historic day for the global Catholic Church: the start of the conclave to elect a new pope. 115 Cardinals will gather to pray and vote. 58 percent of them were made cardinals by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI,… Continue reading

  • Winter Seminar at the Louisville Institute

    Great conversations about ongoing projects at the Louisville Institute’s Winter Seminar. In the spirit of its mission to support research and leadership education on American religion, the Institute gathered a number of its 2012 grantees to discuss their work. The… Continue reading

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