In the summer of 2020, CMAC brought on our first full-time demographer, Rachel Bacon. Rachel is working on the Modeling Religious Change project, adapting traditional demography methods to cooperate with[…]
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Category: Meet CMAC
To read profiles of our researchers, Q&As, explanations of methods and terms, and other general interest topics, refer to this page.
Meet Rachel Bacon, Postdoctoral Fellow
Last year, Rachel Bacon started at CMAC as a Postdoctoral Fellow working full-time on the Modeling Religious Change project. She has a wide variety of academic experience in sociology and[…]
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Meet George Hodulik, Creative Solutions Designer
Earlier this year, we welcomed George Hodulik to the CMAC team as a Creative Solutions Designer. George comes to CMAC with years of technical experience in software engineering and an[…]
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Practicing Safe Sects
CMAC Research Associate F. LeRon Shults recently published Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective. The book is now open access and anyone can download it for[…]
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Celebrating 10 years of Religion, Brain & Behavior
In April 2011, the first issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior was published by Taylor & Francis, adorned then as today with William Blake’s “Web of Religion”. The journal provides “a vehicle[…]
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Meet Dave Rohr, Postdoctoral Fellow and Executive Assistant
Dave Rohr has been in the CMAC network since 2013 as a doctoral fellow. He’s now stepping into a new role as a postdoctoral fellow and joining the admin staff[…]
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Q&A with shaunesse’ jacobs
One of CMAC’s newest projects is Black Maternal Mortality, which is looking at data from Boston hospitals to learn more about the underlying conditions that cause maternal mortality rates to[…]
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