Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D.
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Sociology, MS-28
Tel. (713)348-4235 |
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Areas of Interest
- Religion
- Race and Ethnicity
- Immigration
- Culture
- Gender (Minor Concentration)
Research Interests
Elaine Howard Ecklund's research interests are in the areas of culture, race, ethnicity, and immigration, as well as religion and American civic life. Her current research focuses on two areas. One is changes to civil society as a result of recent immigration to the US. The other is the intersection of religion and science. She is currently doing a national study on religion and spirituality among scientists at elite research universities. Her study is the first in over twenty years to systematically gather data on this topic. Ecklund's work has appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Review of Religious Research. Her first book, Korean American Evangelicalism: New Models of Civic Life is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Biography
Dr. Ecklund received the Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University in 2004.
Recent Publications
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Book:
- Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Korean American Evangelicalism: New Models of Civic Life. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007. Selected Articles:
- Cadge, Wendy, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2006. "Religious Service Attendance among Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey-Pilot," American Behavioral Scientist, 49 (11): 1-22.
- Ecklund, Elaine Howard. 2006. "Organizational Culture and Women's Leadership: A Study of Six Catholic Parishes," Sociology of Religion, 67(1): 81-98.
- Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Jerry Z. Park. 2005. "Asian American Community Participation and Religion: Civic 'Model Minorities?'" Journal of Asian American Studies, 6(1): 1-22.
- Ecklund, Elaine Howard, "'Us' and 'Them:' The Role of Religion in Mediating and Challenging the Model Minority and Other Civic Boundaries," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28(1): 132-150.