Kraig Beyerlein

I'm an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society. I am also a faculty fellow in the following centers/institutes on campus: Center for the Study of Social Movements, Institute for Latino Studies, and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

I teach and engage in research in the areas of collective behavior/social movements, civic engagement/volunteerism, social networks, and the sociology of religion, especially congregation-based mobilizing. Published work on these topics appear in the American Sociological Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Mobilization, Poetics, Politics and Religion, Social Forces, Social Problems, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science Research, and Sociology of Religion.

Before coming to Notre Dame, I was a member of the faculty in the Sociology Department at the University of Arizona. I received my Ph. D. from the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.