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In the News

2023 “How Do Our Dreams Evolve As We Age?” Discover Magazine, September 20, 2023. “BU creates standards for chatbots in the classroom,” Boston Globe, April 4, 2023. “The neuroscience of spiritual experiences,” Big Think, April 3, 2023. 2022 “Pandemic visions:…

Frequently Asked Questions

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What is the mind-culture nexus? At CMAC, the mind-culture nexus denotes the phenomena that occur at the intersection and interaction of individuals with their environments. CMAC studies the mind-culture nexus because it encompasses much of the way that people operate…

Interns

Luca del Deo Research Assistant, 2022-Present Luca received his Masters of Theological Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, specializing in topics related to meditative practices in America and related inquiries in psychology, anthropology, and religious studies. He graduated Magna Cum…

Research Associates

Rachel Bacon Research Associate, 2024-PresentPostdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2024Rachel Bacon is a sociologist and demographer. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the Sociology and Demography dual-degree program at Penn State University. She worked on the Modeling Religious Change Project as a postdoctoral fellow at…

Research Approach

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CMAC is dedicated to a non-partisan, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research approach. Our research teams employ computational models, data analytics, historical interpretation, philosophical analysis of concepts and other methods to generate practical answers to the challenges confronting us. CMAC researchers rely on…