Publications
2026 Bolger, Daniel, Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Christine Jang-Trettien. “The Making of an Epidemic of Pain.” Social Problems. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag008.
2026 Bolger, Daniel. “Community-Based Organizations and the Production of Collective Efficacy in Majority Black Neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.” Journal of Urban Affairs 48(5): 1783-1799.
2025 Bolger, Daniel. “Getting Out and Giving Back: Repertoires of Destigmatization in the Private Social Safety Net.” Social Forces 103(3): 886–904.
*Featured in Contexts “In Brief,” Winter 2025.
2025 Bolger, Daniel, and Michelle Livings. “Exploring Variation in Welfare Attitudes among Low-Income Parents.” Journal of Poverty. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2025.2575911
2024 Bolger, Daniel, and Esther Chan. “Unequal Returns? Exploring Racial Differences in the Mental Health Benefits of Religious Service Attendance.” Race and Social Problems 16: 267-280.
2024 Jang-Trettien, Christine, and Daniel Bolger. “Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties.” Social Service Review 98(3): 446-481.
*Honorable Mention – 2025 American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Disability in Society Outstanding Publication Award
2024 Bolger, Daniel, Andrea Henderson, Bianca Mabute-Louie, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Intersections Among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions.” Socius. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231225543.
2023 Scheitle, Christopher, Daniel Bolger, Denise Daniels, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62(2): 242-259.
2023 Thomson, Robert, Daniel Bolger, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Denise Daniels. “The Relationship Between Workplace Autonomy and Workplace Religious Expression.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62(1): 126-143.
2022 Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Seeing is Achieving: Religion, Embodiment, and Explanations of Racial Inequality in STEM.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(1): 3-21.
2021 Bolger, Daniel, and Pamela J. Prickett. “Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations.” Religions 12: 1062. Available online: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12121062.
*Selected Coverage: The Associated Press, Houston Public Media, BET, Religion News Service, KMGH-TV Denver
2021 Bolger, Daniel. “The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision.” Social Problems 68(3): 535–551.
*Winner – 2020 American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Religion Student Paper Award
2021 Bolger, Daniel. “The Collective Construction of Need: Group Styles of Determining Deservingness in Christian Social Service Agencies.” The Sociological Quarterly 63(1): 74-93.
2021 Rachel Schneider, and Daniel Bolger. “Between the Prophetic and Priestly: The Role of Black Pastoral Authority in Health and Science Promotion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89(2): 530–561.
2021 Bolger, Daniel, Robert Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions: Comparing Congress and Corporations.” Social Science Quarterly 102(1): 324-342.
2020 Elaine Howard Ecklund, Denise Daniels, Daniel Bolger, and Laura Johnson. “A New Study Looks at Faith at Work and Religious Discrimination in the Workplace.” Religions. Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/287.
*Selected Coverage: The New York Times
2019 Bolger, Daniel, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Selection Versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science.” Sociological Perspectives 62(4): 518-537.
2019 Elliott, James R., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, and Daniel Bolger. “The Successive Nature of Parks: Making and Remaking Unequal Access Over Time.” City & Community 18(1): 109-127.
2018 Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches.” Review of Religious Research 60(1): 49-70.
2018 Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley IV, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Heaven and Health: Pastoral Perspectives on Faith and Medicine.” Review of Religious Research 60(3): 389–402.
2016 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Christopher Scheitle, Jared Peifer, and Daniel Bolger. “Examining Links between Religion, Evolution Views, and Climate Change Skepticism.” Environment and Behavior 49(9): 985-1006.