I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. My research focuses on cultural and institutional change in liberal democracies since the 1960s—with a focus on the areas of religion, morality, work, and politics. 
 
My first book, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, examines the social and political implications of the shift from "religion" to "spirituality," which has, in recent years, transformed the religious landscape of the West. 

I’ve since turned my attention to the cultural dimensions of the growing "diploma divide", unearthing the symbolic boundaries, cultural structures, and social practices that distinguish urban university-educated professionals from rural nonuniversity-educated workers in Canada and the U.S.
 
I have published academic articles in journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology,  Sociology of Religion, Civic Sociology​, Religion​, European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Cultural Sociology, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion​, History of the Human Sciences, and The Sociological Review. I also occasionally write for a public audience.  Check out some of my articles and public writing on my Writing page.

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