Faculty & Staff
Evan Stewart, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
Contact
- Phone: 617.287.6250
- Fax: 617.287.6288
- Email: Evan.Stewart@umb.edu
- Office Location: Wheatley Hall, 4th floor, Room 11
Areas of Expertise
Political and cultural sociology, public opinion, civic engagement, religion and secularism, social psychology, survey research, quantitative methods
Degrees
PhD, University of Minnesota
Professional Publications & Contributions
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2020. Stewart, Evan, and Douglas Hartmann. “The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:” Sociological Theory 38(2):170–91.
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2020. Edgell, Penny, Evan Stewart, Sarah Catherine Billups, and Ryan Larson. “The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries.” The Sociological Quarterly 61(2):309–33.
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2019. Delehanty, Jack, Penny Edgell, and Evan Stewart. “Christian America? Secularized Evangelical Discourse and the Boundaries of National Belonging.” Social Forces 97(3):1283–1306.
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2018. Stewart, Evan, Penny Edgell, and Jack Delehanty. “The Politics of Religious Prejudice and Tolerance for Cultural Others.” The Sociological Quarterly 59(1):17–39.
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2017. Edgell, Penny, Jacqui Frost, and Evan Stewart. “From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion.” Social Currents 4(6):556–74.
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2017. Stewart, Evan, Jacqui Frost, and Penny Edgell, eds. “Special Issue: Intersectionality and Power.” Secularism and Non-Religion. 6(1).
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2016. Edgell, Penny, Douglas Hartmann, Evan Stewart, and Joseph Gerteis. “Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States.” Social Forces 95(2):607–38.
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2016. Stewart, Evan. “The True (Non)Believer? Atheism and the Atheistic in the United States” pp. 137-160 in Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion Volume 7: Sociology of Atheism edited by Roberto Cipriani and Franco Garelli. London: Brill.
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2016. Stewart, Evan. “Simply White: Race, Politics, and Invisibility in Advertising Depictions of Farm Labor.” pp. 130-147 in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World edited by Marion Crain, Winifred Poster and Miriam Cherry. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Current Research
Evan Stewart’s research focuses on why people lose trust in institutions and the political impact of their choices to stop participating in them. His current work examines religious disaffiliation as one case of this process, looking at how the growing nonreligious population in the United States thinks about issues and engages in political life. His other research projects examine prejudice and tolerance, religion and the public sphere, religion and mental health, and attitudes about contentious political issues. This work has appeared in Social Forces, Social Currents, The Sociological Quarterly, Secularism and Nonreligion, and The Annual Review in the Sociology of Religion.