Curriculum Vitae (338.79 KB)Religion, science, immigration, and culture
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, as well as founding director of the Religion and Public Life Program. Theoretically, Ecklund explores how individuals and small groups bring changes to larger institutions that constrain them. Substantively, her work explores this topic in relationship to religion, science, gender, race and immigration in different national contexts. Ecklund is the author of four books, over 60 peer-reviewed research articles, and numerous op-eds. She has received over 5 million dollars in grants and awards, including those from the Templeton Religion Trust, Lilly Endowment, Inc., Templeton World Charity Foundation, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her research has been covered in national and international news media, including USA Today, Nature, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. She received a PhD in 2004 from Cornell University, where she was the recipient of the Class of 2004 Graduate Student Baccalaureate Award for Academic Excellence and Community Service. In 2013 Ecklund was winner of the Charles O. Duncan Award for outstanding research and teaching achievement at Rice University and in 2018 will give a Gifford lecture. Over the past several years, Ecklund’s research has explored how scientists in different nations understand religion, ethics, and gender. And Ecklund has just begun (with Denise Daniels) a nation-wide research initiative entitled “Faith at Work: An Empirical Study.” Ecklund teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate level on immigration, sociology of science, classical sociological theory, research methods, and religion in public life.
Books
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Christopher P. Scheitle. 2017. Religion Vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think. Oxford University Press.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Anne E. Lincoln. 2016. Failing Families, Failing Science: Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science. New York University Press.
Articles
Johnson, David, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2017. “Structural Strain in Science: Organizational Context, Career Stage, Discipline, and Role Composition.” Sociological Inquiry. doi: 10.1111/soin.12176.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Di Di. 2017. “A Catholic Science? Italian Scientists Construct Religious Identity During Religious Shifts.” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 4(1):94-114.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Sarah Damaske, Anne Lincoln, and Virginia White. 2017. “Strategies Men Use to Negotiate Family and Science.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 3:1-12.
Lewis, Steven W., Di Di, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2017. “The Double-Edged Sword: Guanxi and Science Ethics in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China.” Journal of Contemporary China. doi: 10.1080/10670564.2017.1305487.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Jared L. Peifer, Virginia White, and Esther Chan. 2017. “Moral Schemas in Articulation and Intuition: How Religious People Evaluate Human Reproductive Genetic Technologies.” Sociological Forum 32(2):277-297.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Di Di. 2017. “A Gendered Approach to Science Ethics for US and UK Physicists.” Science and Engineering Ethics 23(1):183-201.
Di, Di, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Steven W. Lewis. 2017. “Women’s Underrepresentation in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China.” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 22(4):329-348.
Scheitle, Christopher P., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2017. “Examining the Effects of Exposure to Religion in the Workplace on Perceptions of Religious Discrimination.” Review of Religious Research 59:1-20.
Johnson, David, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Di Di, and Kirstin Matthews. 2016. “Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (Mis)representation of Science.” Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/0963662516673501.
Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Christopher P. Scheitle, Jared Peifer, and Dan Bolger. 2016. “Examining Links between Religion, Evolution Views, and Climate Change Skepticism.” Environment and Behavior. doi: 10.1177/0013916516674246.
