I am Associate Research Professor of Global Health and Sociology at Duke University. I serve as Research Director for the Duke Clergy Health Collaborative and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

My research sits at the intersection of the sociology of religion, the sociology of work and professions, and mental health. A long-running thread examines clergy health and well-being: how the work of religious leadership shapes mental and physical health, the role of social support, and how structural racism shapes the experience of Black clergy in predominantly white denominations. Recent work designs and tests interventions to reduce clergy stress and depression, extends these questions to religious leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and takes up broader patterns of religious change, including denominational schism and the role of peer networks in shaping belief.

Methodologically, I work with longitudinal, social network, and complex survey data. My research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Pastoral Psychology, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Journal of Religion and Health, Review of Religious Research, and Obesity Reviews, among others.

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