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Sung Joon Jang
Resident Scholar, Family & Adolescent Delinquency
Baylor University
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Curriculum Vitae
Sung Joon Jang is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Baylor University. His publications focus on the effects of family, school, peers, religiosity, and community on adolescent delinquency and drug use. His latest research examines how religiosity protects an individual from the effects of strain and emotional distress on deviant coping behavior among African American adults.
He is conducting research based on the data collected from a three-wave, web-based survey, the National Survey of College Students (NSCS), funded by Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. The NSCS is intended to examine the effects of spirituality and religiosity as well as social control, learning, and strain variables on mental health and various behaviors (including volunteer work and binge drinking) of college students.
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David Lyle Jeffrey
Baylor University
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David Lyle Jeffrey (B.A. Wheaton; Ph.D. Princeton; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities at Baylor University. He is also Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Ottawa, where in 1995 he was named the inaugural Arts Faculty Professor of the Year, and is Guest Professor at Peking University (Beijing) since 1996. He served as Chair of the Department of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa, and has taught also at the Universities of Rochester, Hull (UK) and Regent College.
Jeffrey is general editor and co-author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (1992). Among his other books are The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (1975); By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought (1979); Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (1984); English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley (1987; 1994; 2000); The Law of Love: English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif (1988; 2001); and People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (1996). In 1990, with Brian J. Levy, he published a critical edition with accompanying translations from the medieval French, The Anglo-Norman Lyric, and in 1999, with Dominic Manganiello, he edited and co-authored Rethinking the Future of the University (1999). In 2003, he published his latest book on biblical literature and its critical tradition in literary and cultural theory, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture. His edition of The Poetry of William Cowper is forthcoming in 2006.
He has three times (1975; 1992; 1996) been recipient of the CCL Book of the Year Award, and at the Modern Language Association convention in 2003 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. He served as Senior Vice-Provost (2001-2003) and then Provost (2003-2005) at Baylor University. His current projects include a chapter on the relationship between biblical hermeneutics and literary theory for The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, a book on Augustine's aesthetics, a critical edition of the fourteenth-century spiritual writer Richard Rolle, and a historically-based theological commentary on the Gospel of Luke.
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Philip Jenkins
Non-Resident Fellow, Global Christianity
Pennsylvania State University
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Dr Jenkins' major current interests include the study of global Christianity; of new and emerging religious movements; and of twentieth century US history, chiefly post-1970. He also has an enduring interest in issues of crime and deviance, and the construction of social problems. His recent and current book projects include a history of changing attitudes to Native American spirituality in mainstream American culture, and a political and cultural history of the United States in the years 1975-1985. He is also currently studying religious change and conflict in contemporary Europe, with a focus on Muslim-Christian interaction. He has published twenty books, which have been translated into ten languages. Some recent titles include Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History (2000), The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity (2002), Decade of Nightmares: The End of the 1960s and the Making of Eighties America (2006), and The New Faces of Christianity(2006).
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William H. Jeynes
Non-Resident Scholar, Education
California State University, Long Beach
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Dr. Jeynes is one of the nation's leading researchers on the influence of religiosity and attending religious schools. He has conducted the only meta-analysis ever undertaken examining these issues in a series of journal articles and in his book, Religion, Education, and Academic Success. He has also written dozens of academic journal articles, which have divulged among other things that when African American and Latino students are religious and from intact families, the achievement gap with white students disappears.
Dr. Jeynes has also written about 60 academic journal articles, which have divulged among other things that when African American and Latino students are religious and from intact families, the achievement gap with white students disappears. Dr. Jeynes’ articles have appeared in numerous journals such as Columbia University’s Teacher’s College Record, two Harvard University journals, Cambridge Journal of Education, Educational Policy, Elementary School Journal, and Journal of Negro Education. His articles rank among the top 8 all-time most cited articles in the forty-three year history of Urban Education and Education & Urban Society. Dr. Jeynes is a well-known public speaker having spoken for the White House, the U.S.
Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Press Club, and the Acting President of Korea. He has spoken in twenty nations and in nearly every state. William Jeynes is also the Chair of the Religion and Education group of the American Education Research Association
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Eric Kaufmann
Non-Resident Scholar, Politics and Sociology
Birkbeck College, University of London
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Eric Kaufmann is Reader in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he directs the Masters Programme in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. He is currently a Fellow in the Religion in International Politics/International Security Initiative, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University. He was awarded the 2008 Richard Rose Prize of the Political Studies Association for best research published on British politics by a scholar under 40.
Kaufmann is the author of The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History (Oxford 2007), Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945, with Henry Patterson (Manchester University Press, 2007), The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard University Press, 2004) and editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge, 2004). He has published numerous journal articles and his recent work on religious demography has appeared in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion as well as in Newsweek and Prospect magazines. His current research examines the future religious composition of the United States, Europe, Israel and the Muslim world, as well as the demography and future size of Republican and Democratic party identifiers in the United States. He is currently researching and writing a book, provisionally titled Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Profile Books, 2009).
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Kent Kerley
Non-Resident Scholar, Criminology
University of Alabama, Birmingham
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Kent R. Kerley is Assistant Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Honors Program in the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary research interests include religiosity, corrections, and intimate partner violence. His work has appeared in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, and Social Problems.
Kent Kerley
Non-Resident Scholar, Criminology
University of Alabama, Birmingham
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Kent R. Kerley is Assistant Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Honors Program in the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary research interests include religiosity, corrections, and intimate partner violence. His work has appeared in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, and Social Problems.
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Thomas Kidd
Resident Scholar, Religious History
Baylor University
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Thomas Kidd is associate professor of history at Baylor University. His book, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, was published by Yale in 2007. He also published The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents, with Bedford Books in 2007. Another book, American Christians and Islam, is to be published by Princeton University Press in 2008. He is also writing A Christian Sparta: Evangelicals, Deists, and the Creation of the American Republic, and Patrick Henry: A Biography, both to be published by Basic Books.
Kidd teaches courses on colonial America, the American Revolution, and American religious history. He was selected for the 2004-05 Young Scholars in American Religion program, won a 2006-07 NEH Fellowship, and won a 2004 NEH Summer Stipend. Kidd came to Baylor University in 2002 after completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with the historian of religion George Marsden. He received a B.A. and M.A. at Clemson University. He and his wife Ruby have two sons, Jonathan and Joshua.
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Harold Koenig
Duke University Medical Center
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Training:
M.D., M.H.Sc., University of California at San Francisco, 1982
Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1989-92, 1991-92
Geropsychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1991-92
Clinical Interests:
Psychotherapy/medication management, general adult psychiatry, depression, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders related to medical illness, patients with a strong religious background wanting therapy from that perspective
My primary research is focused on studying depressive disorders in the medically ill hospitalized elderly. I am studying the phenomenology and diagnosis of depression in this population, psychosocial and health predictors of outcome, and health service utilization. I am currently funded from 1993-1998 by an NIMH Clinical Mental Health Academic Award to study this topic.
Another area of research interest is ethical issues in geriatrics. In particular, I have been studying opinions on physician assisted-suicide held by elderly medical and psychiatric patients and their families. This project has been going on for 12 months in the GET clinic; we have enrolled over 100 patients and their families into the study. I recently debated the topic of whether or not to legalize physician-assisted suicide in North Carolina at the annual NC Health and Law Forum in Greenville, NC.
A final area of interest is that of religion, health and aging. We have established a Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health within the Center for Aging devoted to research and dissemination of information on this topic. I was recently selected by the National Institute on Aging and Fetzer Foundation to help co-chair a committee designed to bring together leaders from the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, religion, sociology, gerontology, and medicine to come up with a consensus statement regarding the needed research in this area and determine a list of topics for future funding by the NIA and Fetzer Foundation.
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Robert Kruschwitz
Baylor University
As Director of the Center for Christian Ethics, he oversees the programs of the Center and serves as general editor of Christian Reflection, the Center's innovative quarterly series in faith and ethics for church laypersons. Previously, he taught for twenty-one years at Georgetown College (Kentucky) where he had chaired the faculty and the philosophy department. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. degree from Georgetown College. An early member of the Society of Christian Philosophers (1982) and a founder of the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers (1988), he received the George Walker Redding Faculty Award for Outstanding Christian Service from Georgetown College in 1997 for his leadership in integrating Christian faith with teaching and research.
He co-edited The Virtues (Wadsworth, 1987), a pioneering anthology of recent essays on moral character, and his articles and reviews on ethics have appeared in Faith and Philosophy, Perspectives in Religious Studies, Faculty Dialogue, The Thomist, and The Expository Times. He is married to Vicki Kruschwitz, who is taking a sabbatical from her career in international transportation with IBM and Lexmark International, and is the family's genealogist.
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Graeme Lang
City University, Hong Kong
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Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Asian and International Studies
Richard Lewis
Non-Resident Fellow, Criminology
ICF International
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Richard Alan Lewis has 15 years of program management, planning, research and evaluation experience. He serves as a senior associate for ICF International-a global professional services firm that partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in defense, energy, environment, homeland security, social programs, and transportation. Mr. Lewis provides high-quality research and consulting services that help ICFI clients develop and manage effective human services programs and policies for the public good.
He also serves as a consultant to The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization, and advises on issues involving improving outcomes for prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Mr. Lewis' knowledge base includes managing federal, state and privately funded grants, administering contracts, and advising agencies and organizations on value-added strategic partnerships and fund development initiatives. His skill set comprises conducting policy relevant research, authoring papers and proposals, and empirically evaluating programs designed to solve social problems, prevent crime and delinquency, and enhance policing, courts, and corrections. Mr. Lewis also develops cutting-edge training curricula and delivers state-of-the-art technical assistance. In addition, his abilities and interests include increasing homeland security concerns, improving domestic preparedness, and the application of social marketing solutions. Finally, Mr. Lewis instructs courses and lectures on contemporary criminal justice policy issues. This extensive experience involves criminal justice system subject matter expertise in areas involving policing, courts, and corrections. Areas of special concentration include homicide and violent crime, delinquency and mentoring at-risk youth, prisoner reentry and parental incarceration, marriage and fatherhood, and faith- and community-based responses to social problems involving the ominous nexus of drugs, guns, and poverty in urban communities that are disproportionately impacted by incarceration.
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Spencer Li
Westat Research
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Dr. Spencer Li is a sociologist and criminologist with 15 years of research experience in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, sociology of religion substance abuse, child welfare, child development, offender rehabilitation and treatment, and. At Westat, he is the principal investigator/project director for four projects funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that examine the relationships among family processes, religion, organizational structure and policies, social services, and adolescent well-being and risk behavior. He is also a task leader for the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, supervising the local agency survey and data analysis. In previous work, Dr. Li served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or research analyst on several publicly and privately funded projects related to juvenile delinquency, adolescent development, and offender rehabilitation. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, research methods, and advanced data analysis at Florida State University. Through teaching and research, Dr. Li has developed strong expertise in qualitative and quantitative methodology.
Yunfeng Lu
Beijing University
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Yunfeng Lu is an assistant professor of sociology at Peking University. His academic interest focuses on sociology of religion and social psychology. He is the author of Religious economy and Chinese sects: Yiguan Dao in Taiwan (Lexington Books, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly , Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
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