I have a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley; and I am a Researcher/Lecturer at the Sociology Institute of the University of Bern.

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My research and teaching interests include religion, gender, liberalism, political and cultural sociology, social theory, and ethnography. My current research projects investigate everyday practices and politics of identity in the context of converging crises of popular faith in the institutions of religion and liberal democracy. My forthcoming book, Not Religion (Temple University Press), explores the growing trend of everyday organizations and actors experimenting with – and often distancing themselves from – the category of “religion,” and thereby proposing alternative orientations to conscience work and opening new possibilities of civic engagement. I am currently working on a project that examines these problems associated with the liberal separation of conscience from citizenship as they pertain to contemporary politics and practices of gender.

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To date, this work has received awards from the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and appears in Sociological Theory, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology of Religion, European Journal of Sociology and other outlets.