Daniel Bolger

Princeton University | 286 Wallace Hall | Princeton, NJ 08544

[email protected] | 609.258.0340

https://bolger.scholar.princeton.edu

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Professional Appointments

2022-Present                      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University

                                           Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing,

                                           School of Public and International Affairs

Education

2016-2022                          Ph.D. Sociology, Rice University

2016-2018                          M.A. Sociology, Rice University

2010-2013                          M.A. Mental Health Counseling, Trinity International University

2010-2013                          M.A. Christian Studies, Trinity International University

2006-2010                          B.S. Psychology, John Brown University

Research Interests

Social Inequality, Qualitative Methods, Race & Racism. Religion, Urban/Community, Poverty, Mental Health

Selected Publications

Forthcoming Jang-Trettien, Christine, and Daniel Bolger. “Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties." Social Service Review.

2024 Bolger, Daniel, Andrea Henderson, Bianca Mabute-Louie, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Intersections Among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Illness.” Socius. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231225543.

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.

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.

Manuscripts Under Review

Bolger, Daniel. “Getting Out and Giving Back: Repertoires of Destigmatization in the Private Social Safety Net" Revise and Resubmit at Social Forces.

Bolger, Daniel, and Esther Chan. “Unequal Returns? Exploring Racial Differences in the Mental Health Benefits of Religious Service Attendance”

Manuscripts In Progress

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

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

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

Reviews

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

Teaching Experience

2023                       Topics in Policy Analysis: Poverty and Social Policy (SPI 594G), Guest Lecturer, Princeton University

2022                       Inequality and Urban Life (SOCI 470), Instructor of Record, Rice University

2021                       Community Bridges Training (SOCI 469), Instructor of Record, Rice University

2021                       Inequality and Urban Life (SOCI 470), Instructor of Record, Rice University

2020                       Community Bridges Training (SOCI 469), Instructor of Record, Rice University

2020                       Certificate of Teaching and Learning, Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University

2020                       Urban Sociology (SOCI 310), Instructor of Record, Rice University

2018                       Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 101), Teaching Assistant, Rice University

2018                      Introduction to the Black Church in the United States (RELI 270) Guest Lecturer, Rice University

2018                       Immigration (SOCI 451), Guest Lecturer, Rice University

2017                       Research Methods (SOCI 381), Teaching Assistant, Rice University

2016                       Immigration (SOCI 451), Course Administrator, Rice University

2016                      Religion Seminar (SOCI 501), Course Administrator, Rice University

2015                      Classical Theory (SOCI 580), Course Administrator, Rice University

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…

Conference Presentations

2023                     Bolger, Daniel, and Esther Chan. “Unequal Returns: Racial Disparities in the Mental Health Benefits of Religious Service Attendance among Low-Income Mothers.” Accepted for American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2023.

2023                     Jang-Trettien, Christine, and Daniel Bolger. “Administrative Burden For Whom? Pathways for Receiving Disability Assistance in Two Rural Counties.” Accepted for American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2023.

2023                     Bolger, Daniel. “Race, Gender, and Perceptions of the Sufficiency of the Social Safety Net.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2023.

2023                     Bledsoe, Isaac, Christine Jang-Trettien, Ryan Parsons, and Daniel Bolger. “'Pathways to Disability: A Comparison of Two Rural Counties in the U.S.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2023.

2022                     Bolger, Daniel. “Race, Gender, and Perceptions of the Sufficiency of the Social Safety Net.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2022.

2022                     Bolger, Daniel. “Being a Community: The Organizational Production of Collective Efficacy in Majority Black Neighborhoods.” Chicago Ethnography Conference, April 2022.

2021                     Bolger, Daniel. “Getting Out and Giving Back: Navigating Social Service Stigma in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2021.

2021                     Bolger, Daniel. “Being a Community: Organizational Density and Perceptions of Collective Efficacy in Historically Black Neighborhoods.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, August 2021.

2020                     Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Denise Daniels, Daniel Bolger, and Laura Johnson. 2020. “A New Study Looks at Faith at Work and Religious Discrimination in the Workplace.” Abstract Accepted for Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, October 2020. Pittsburgh, PA.

2020                     Thomson, Robert, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Daniel Bolger, and Denise Daniels. “Workplace Devotion: The Impact of Religious Identity, Organizational Position, and Social Class on Workplace Religious Agency.” Abstract Accepted for American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2020. San Francisco, CA.  

2020                     Bolger, Daniel. ““The Impact of Neighborhood Organizational Infrastructure on Community Responses to Gentrification.” Abstract Accepted for Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. San Francisco, August 2020.

2019                     Bolger, Daniel. “The Racialized Politics of Place in Religious Social Service Provision.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting. St. Louis, October 2019.

2019                     Schneider, Rachel, and Daniel Bolger. “Black Pastoral Authority, Health, and Science.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting. St. Louis, October 2019.

2019                     Thomson, Robert Jr., Daniel Bolger, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “A Tale of Two Populisms: Divergent and Convergent Correlates of Trust in Congress and Corporations.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, August 2019.

2019                     Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Seeing is Achieving: Religion, Embodiment, and Explanations of Racial Inequality in STEM.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. New York, August 2019.

2018                     Daniel Bolger. “The Undeserving Poor: Gender, Rights, and Obligations in Faith-Based Social Service Provision.” Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, August 2018.

2018                     Daniel Bolger. “Faithful Welfare: How Religion Patterns Views of Federal Assistance among Low-Income Mothers.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Section on Sociology of Religion Roundtable. Philadelphia, August 2018.

2017                     Elliott, James R., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, and Daniel Bolger. “The Successive Nature of Parks: Making and Remaking Unequal Access Over Time.” Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017.

2017                     Daniel Bolger, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Science, Secularization, and Religious Shifts: The Religious Transitions of Scientists in Cross-National Context.” Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 2017.

2017                     Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Bob Thomson, Daniel Bolger, and Sharan Mehta. “Perceptions of Discrimination in Global Science.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 2017.

2017                     Elliott, James R., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, and Daniel Bolger. “The Successive Nature of Parks: Making and Remaking Unequal Access Over Time.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 2017.

2017                     Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “How Latino and Black Christians View the Impact of Science Education on Religious Faith.” Biologos Conference, Houston, March 2017.

2016                     Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley IV, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Heaven and Health: Pastoral Perspectives on Faith and Medicine.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 2016.

2016                     Bolger, Daniel, and Cleve Tinsley IV. “Pastoral Views on Faith and Medicine: A Comparative Study.” Conference on Religion and Medicine. Houston, March 2016.

2015                     Khalsa, Simranjit, Elaine Howard Ecklund and Daniel Bolger. “Indian Scientists’ Views of Religion and Spirituality,” Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 2015.

2014                     Bolger, Daniel, Eric Watson, Timothy Baumgartner, and Crystal Allen. “A Conversation on College Readiness, from the Higher Ed Perspective,” College Readiness Summit at Rice University, Houston, December 2014.

Reviewer

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

Professional Associations

American Sociological Association

        Section Memberships: Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Sociology of Religion; Community and Urban Sociology; Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Eastern Sociological Society

References

Kathryn Edin

William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW)

Princeton University

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Elaine Howard Ecklund                                                           

Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences  

Director of the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance                          

Professor of Sociology                                                               

Rice University                                                                          

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James R. Elliott

Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

Rice University

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Rachel Kimbro

Dean, School of Social Sciences

Professor of Sociology

Rice University

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