Publications

2024 Bolger, Daniel. “Getting Out and Giving Back: Repertoires of Destigmatization inthe Private Social Safety Net.” Social Forces. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae106.

2024  Bolger, Daniel, and Esther Chan. “Unequal Returns? Exploring Racial Differences in the Mental Health Benefits of Religious Service Attendance.” Race and Social Problems. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-024-09420-2.

2024 Jang-Trettien, Christine, and Daniel Bolger. “Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties.” Social Service Review. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1086/730819.

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, NPR, 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 ASA 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. 

Manuscripts In Progress

Bolger, Daniel, Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Christine Jang-Trettien. “The Epidemic of Pain and the Making of Disability Clusters.” 

Bolger, Daniel. “Community-Based Organizations and the Production of Community in Majority Black Neighborhoods” 

Bolger, Daniel. “The Perils of Privatization: Race, Gender, and Perceptions of Social Service Organizations.”

Book Reviews

2023 Bolger, Daniel. “Review of Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-Based Health Services in an African American Community.” Social Forces. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad156.

2019 Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sharan Mehta, and Daniel Bolger. “A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff.” Zygon 54(3): 643-647. 

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2021 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($6,262), National Science Foundation, administered through the American Sociological Association

2021 Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention ($5,000), Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, Indiana University-Indianapolis

2021 Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship ($16,750), Rice University 

2021 Delores P. Aldridge Dissertation Fellowship ($29,500), Department of Sociology, Rice University

2020 Finalist for 2021 Graduate Teaching Award for Independent Instruction, Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University 

2020 Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Religion 

2020 Student Research Grant ($2,500), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

2020 Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($4,980), Social Sciences Research Institute, Rice University

2019 Walter and Helen Hall Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, Department of Sociology, Rice University

2017 Pre-Dissertation Research Grant ($1,215),Social Sciences Research Institute, Rice University

Professional Service

2023                 Qualitative Methods Training Facilitator—Department of Public Policy and Administration, Jackson State University 

2020-2022        Graduate Consultant—Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University 

2020-2022        Community Bridges Instructor—Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University 

2019                 Graduate Student Ambassador—Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Annual Meeting

2016-2022        Graduate Research Fellow—Religion and Public Life Program, Social Sciences Research Institute, Rice University

2015-2016        Post-Baccalaureate Fellow—Religion and Public Life Program, Social Sciences Research Institute, Rice University

2013-2015        First Generation Student Advisor—University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas

Public Scholarship

2021                 Bolger, Daniel. “In its 10th year, Community Bridges Projects Confront Ever-apparent Inequalities in Houston.” Urban Edge Blog. Kinder Institute for Urban Research, June 3. Available online: https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2021/06/03/community-bridges-projects…

Reviewer

• American Journal of Sociology
• Sociological Forum
• Social Forces
• Social Problems
• Sociology of Religion
• Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion