Dan Bolger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Rice University. His research explores how societal institutions shape the ways that social actors explain and respond to inequality. His research interests include social inequality, ethnography, urban sociology, religion, poverty, and race.
Dan Bolger

Between the Prophetic and Priestly: The Role of Black Pastoral Authority in Health and Science Promotion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions: Comparing Congress and Corporations
Social Science Quarterly

A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

Seeing is Achieving: Religion, Embodiment, and Explanations of Racial Inequality in STEM
Ethnic and Racial Studies

Examining Links Between Religion, Evolution Views and Climate-Change Skepticism
Environment and Behavior

Selection Versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science
Sociological Perspectives

Heaven and Health: How Black, Latino, and Korean Christians View the Relationship between Faith and Health
Review of Religious Research

Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches
Review of Religious Research
Clone of Some Black and Latino Christians Rely on Religion for Healing
Rice University News Release
Role Models at Church Could Lead Black, Latinx Christians to STEM Careers
Rice University News Release
Some Latinos Believe Science May Negatively Impact Their Kids' Faith
Rice University News Release