Research Team
Project Staff
Dr. Christian Smith
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor of Sociology & Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, The University of Notre Dame
Research Areas: religion in modernity, adolescents, evangelicalism, culture
christian.smith@nd.edu
Sara Skiles
Project Manager, Wave 4
Specialty Area: manages the study through the University of Notre Dame
sskiles@nd.edu
Project Co-Investigators
Dr. Lisa Pearce
Wave 3 Co-Investigator and Wave 2 Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Areas: religion and family-related preferences and behaviors
ldpearce@email.unc.edu
Dr. Stephen Vaisey
Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Research Areas: morality, culture and cognition, panel data
vaisey@berkeley.edu
Dr. Melinda Lundquist Denton
Wave 1 Project Manager
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio
Research Areas: religion, family and adolescents
melinda.denton@utsa.edu
Research Associates
Dr. Kyle Longest
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Furman University
Research Areas: social psychology, adolescent development/life Course, culture, adolescent substance use
kyle.longest@furman.edu
Dr. David Sikkink
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
Research Areas: religion and education
dsikkink@nd.edu
Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arkansas
Research Areas: Community; Spatial Inequality; Voluntary Giving & Participation; Religion; Youth; Social Theory
herzog@uark.edu