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Sung Joon Jang
Resident Scholar, Family & Adolescent Delinquency
Baylor University
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Sung Joon Jang is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Baylor University. His publications focus on the effects of family, school, peers, religiosity, and community on adolescent delinquency and drug use. His latest research examines how religiosity protects an individual from the effects of strain and emotional distress on deviant coping behavior among African American adults.
He is conducting research based on the data collected from a three-wave, web-based survey, the National Survey of College Students (NSCS), funded by Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science. The NSCS is intended to examine the effects of spirituality and religiosity as well as social control, learning, and strain variables on mental health and various behaviors (including volunteer work and binge drinking) of college students.
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David Lyle Jeffrey
Resident Senior Fellow
Baylor University
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David Lyle Jeffrey (B.A. Wheaton; Ph.D. Princeton; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities at Baylor University. He is also Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Ottawa, where in 1995 he was named the inaugural Arts Faculty Professor of the Year, and is Guest Professor at Peking University (Beijing) since 1996. He served as Chair of the Department of English both at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa, and has taught also at the Universities of Rochester, Hull (UK) and Regent College.
Jeffrey is general editor and co-author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (1992). Among his other books are The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality (1975); By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought (1979); Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (1984); English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley (1987; 1994; 2000); The Law of Love: English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif (1988; 2001); and People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (1996). In 1990, with Brian J. Levy, he published a critical edition with accompanying translations from the medieval French, The Anglo-Norman Lyric, and in 1999, with Dominic Manganiello, he edited and co-authored Rethinking the Future of the University (1999). In 2003, he published his latest book on biblical literature and its critical tradition in literary and cultural theory, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture. His edition of The Poetry of William Cowper is forthcoming in 2006.
He has three times (1975; 1992; 1996) been recipient of the CCL Book of the Year Award, and at the Modern Language Association convention in 2003 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. He served as Senior Vice-Provost (2001-2003) and then Provost (2003-2005) at Baylor University. His current projects include a chapter on the relationship between biblical hermeneutics and literary theory for The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, a book on Augustine's aesthetics, a critical edition of the fourteenth-century spiritual writer Richard Rolle, and a historically-based theological commentary on the Gospel of Luke.
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William H. Jeynes
Non-Resident Scholar, Education
California State University, Long Beach
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Dr. Jeynes is one of the nation's leading researchers on the influence of religiosity, attending religious schools, Bible literacy, character education, family structure, and parental involvement. He has conducted meta-analyses and examined nationwide data sets examining each of these issues. His research has divulged, among other things, that when African American and Latino students are religious and from intact families, the achievement gap with white students disappears. He is heavily involved, along a number of dimensions, in getting the Bible as Literature taught in the public schools.
Dr. Jeynes is a Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach and has graduate degrees from Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He graduated first in his class from Harvard University and received the Rosenberger Award at the University of Chicago for being named as his cohort's most outstanding student. He has written approximately 70 academic articles and 9 books. His articles have appeared in journals by Columbia University, Harvard University (two Harvard journals), the University of Chicago, Cambridge University, Brown University, Notre Dame University, and other prestigious academic journals.
He is a well known public speaker having spoken in nearly every state in the country and in every inhabited continent. He has spoken for the White House, the US Department of Justice, the US Department of Education, the US Department of Health & Human Services, the National Press Club, UN delegates, members of Congress, the Acting President of South Korea, the largest church in the world in Seoul, Korea, Harvard University, Duke University, Notre Dame University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and many other well known universities. He has spoken for both the the G.W. Bush & Obama administrations and interacted with each of these presidents. He has been a consultant for both the US & South Korean governments. His 4 point plan presented to the Acting President of South Korea became the core of that nation's 1998 economic stimulus legislation, which helped it emerge from the greatest Asian economic crisis since World War II. Dr. Jeynes has been interviewed or quoted by the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Times, and many other major newspapers. His worked has been cited and quoted numerous times by the U.S. Congress, the British Parliament, the EU, and many State Supreme Courts across the United States. Dr. Jeynes has worked with and spoken for the Harvard Family Research Project. A number of Dr. Jeynes' articles for Urban Education and Education & Urban Society, according to these journal's websites, are in the top 5-10 of the most cited and read articles published by these journals in their 40+ year history. Dr. Jeynes has also gained admission into Who's Who in the World.
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Eric Kaufmann
Non-Resident Scholar, Politics and Sociology
Birkbeck College, University of London
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Eric Kaufmann is Reader in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he directs the Masters Programme in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. In 2008-9, he was a Fellow in the Religion in International Politics/International Security Initiative, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University. He was awarded the 2008 Richard Rose Prize of the Political Studies Association for best research published on British politics by a scholar under 40.
Kaufmann is the author of The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History (Oxford 2007), Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945, with Henry Patterson (Manchester University Press, 2007), The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard University Press, 2004) and editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge, 2004). He has published numerous journal articles and his recent work on religious demography has appeared in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion as well as in Newsweek and Prospect magazines. His current research examines the future religious composition of the United States, Europe, Israel and the Muslim world, as well as the demography and future size of Republican and Democratic party identifiers in the United States. He is currently researching and writing a book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Profile Books, March 2010).
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Kent R. Kerley
Non-Resident Scholar, Criminology
University of Alabama, Birmingham
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Kent R. Kerley is an Associate Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Honors Program in the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary research interests include corrections, religiosity, cyber-crime, and intimate partner violence. His research has appeared in top journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, and Social Problems.
Thomas Kidd
Resident Scholar, Religious History
Baylor University
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Thomas Kidd is associate professor of history at Baylor University. His latest book "American Christians and Islam" was published November 2008 by Princeton University Press. Additional recent books include "The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America", published by Yale in 2007 and "The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents, with Bedford Books in 2007. He is also writing A Christian Sparta: Evangelicals, Deists, and the Creation of the American Republic, and Patrick Henry: A Biography, both to be published by Basic Books.
Kidd teaches courses on colonial America, the American Revolution, and American religious history. He was selected for the 2004-05 Young Scholars in American Religion program, won a 2006-07 NEH Fellowship, and won a 2004 NEH Summer Stipend. Kidd came to Baylor University in 2002 after completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with the historian of religion, George Marsden. He received a B.A. and M.A. at Clemson University. He and his wife Ruby have two sons, Jonathan and Joshua.
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Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc.
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Duke University Medical Center
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Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc. Dr. Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is board certified in general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine, and is on the faculty at Duke as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Koenig is founder and co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 300 scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and nearly 40 books in print or in preparation. He has given invited testimony to both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the role of religion in public health.
Robert Kruschwitz
Resident Research Fellow
Baylor University
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As Director of the Center for Christian Ethics, he oversees the programs of the Center and serves as general editor of Christian Reflection, the Center's innovative quarterly series in faith and ethics for church laypersons. Previously, he taught for twenty-one years at Georgetown College (Kentucky) where he had chaired the faculty and the philosophy department. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. degree from Georgetown College. An early member of the Society of Christian Philosophers (1982) and a founder of the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers (1988), he received the George Walker Redding Faculty Award for Outstanding Christian Service from Georgetown College in 1997 for his leadership in integrating Christian faith with teaching and research.
He co-edited The Virtues (Wadsworth, 1987), a pioneering anthology of recent essays on moral character, and his articles and reviews on ethics have appeared in Faith and Philosophy, Perspectives in Religious Studies, Faculty Dialogue, The Thomist, and The Expository Times. He is married to Vicki Kruschwitz, who is taking a sabbatical from her career in international transportation with IBM and Lexmark International, and is the family's genealogist.
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Graeme Lang
Non-Resident Scholar
City University, Hong Kong
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Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Asian and International Studies
Richard Lewis
Non-Resident Scholar, Criminology
ICF International
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Richard Alan Lewis has 15 years of program management, planning, research and evaluation experience. He serves as a senior associate for ICF International-a global professional services firm that partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in defense, energy, environment, homeland security, social programs, and transportation. Mr. Lewis provides high-quality research and consulting services that help ICFI clients develop and manage effective human services programs and policies for the public good.
He also serves as a consultant to The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization, and advises on issues involving improving outcomes for prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Mr. Lewis' knowledge base includes managing federal, state and privately funded grants, administering contracts, and advising agencies and organizations on value-added strategic partnerships and fund development initiatives. His skill set comprises conducting policy relevant research, authoring papers and proposals, and empirically evaluating programs designed to solve social problems, prevent crime and delinquency, and enhance policing, courts, and corrections. Mr. Lewis also develops cutting-edge training curricula and delivers state-of-the-art technical assistance. In addition, his abilities and interests include increasing homeland security concerns, improving domestic preparedness, and the application of social marketing solutions. Finally, Mr. Lewis instructs courses and lectures on contemporary criminal justice policy issues. This extensive experience involves criminal justice system subject matter expertise in areas involving policing, courts, and corrections. Areas of special concentration include homicide and violent crime, delinquency and mentoring at-risk youth, prisoner reentry and parental incarceration, marriage and fatherhood, and faith- and community-based responses to social problems involving the ominous nexus of drugs, guns, and poverty in urban communities that are disproportionately impacted by incarceration.
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Spencer Li
Non-Resident Scholar
Westat Research
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Dr. Spencer Li is a sociologist and criminologist with 15 years of research experience in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, sociology of religion substance abuse, child welfare, child development, offender rehabilitation and treatment. At Westat, he is the principal investigator/project director for four projects funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that examine the relationships among family processes, religion, organizational structure and policies, social services, and adolescent well-being and risk behavior. He is also a task leader for the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, supervising the local agency survey and data analysis. In previous work, Dr. Li served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or research analyst on several publicly and privately funded projects related to juvenile delinquency, adolescent development, and offender rehabilitation. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, research methods, and advanced data analysis at Florida State University. Through teaching and research, Dr. Li has developed strong expertise in qualitative and quantitative methodology.
Yunfeng Lu
Non-Resident Scholar
Peking University
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Yunfeng Lu is an assistant professor of sociology at Peking University. His academic interest focuses on sociology of religion and social psychology. He is the author of Religious economy and Chinese sects: Yiguan Dao in Taiwan (Lexington Books, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly , Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
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