Prof Elaine Howard Ecklund
Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
Biography
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. An expert on institutional change, Ecklund is a sociologist who examines how individuals bring changes to religious, scientific, and medical institutions.
Ecklund is the author of two books with Oxford University Press and one forthcoming with NYU Press, over 40 research articles, and numerous op-eds. She has received 4.5 million dollars in grants and awards from organizations including the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her latest book, Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think, was chosen by Times Higher Education as an international book of the week and named a book of the year on religion by the Huffington Post. Her research has been covered in national and international news media, including USA Today, Nature, the Wall Street Journal, and Xinhua News.
She received a Ph.D. 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. Ecklund teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels on research methods, immigration, sociology of science, classical sociological theory, and sociology of religion. In 2011 she was named among the top five percent of junior faculty teachers at Rice University and in 2013 received the Rice University Charles O. Duncan Award for Most Outstanding Academic Achievement and Teaching.
For the past several years, Ecklund's research has explored how scientists in several national and regional contexts understand religion, ethics, and gender. With five years of data collection complete, Ecklund will begin extensive data analysis.
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Website
http://www.elainehowardecklund.com
Publications
Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think
Oxford University Press 2010
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/science-vs-religion-9780199975006?q=ecklund&lang=en&cc=us
