Mark Chaves

Mark Chaves is Anne Firor Scott Distinguished Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Religious Studies and Divinity, at Duke University. He directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations, and the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL), a similarly wide-ranging and nationally representative survey of clergy. The NCS has been conducted four times: 1998, 2006, 2012, and 2018-19. The NSRL was conducted in 2019-2020. Professor Chaves is the author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends (Princeton University Press, 2011, 2017 (2nd ed.), Congregations in America (Harvard University Press, 2004), Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (Harvard University Press, 1997), and many articles, mainly on the social organization of religion in the United States. He has chaired the General Social Survey’s Board of Overseers, and he has been President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Anna Holleman

Anna Holleman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University. Her research interests include religion, health, inequality, and research methods. Specifically, she focuses on how religion and inequality interact as social determinants of health, as well as how religious organizations and leaders respond to health crises. Her work has been published in JAMA Psychiatry, Social Science & Medicine, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Review of Religious Research, among other outlets. 

Joseph Roso

Joseph Roso is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. His research examines religion, politics, and the organizational structure of religious congregations, and his work has appeared in outlets such as Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Focus, Politics & Religion, and Review of Religious Research.