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Department of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

Sophie Bjork-James

Assistant Professor of the Practice in Anthropology (Race and racism, evangelicalism, reproductive politics)
She/her/hers

Sophie Bjork-James has engaged in long-term research on both the US-based Religious Right and the white nationalist movement. She is working on a book manuscript on race and evangelical politics in the US. Her work has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC Radio 4’s Today, and in the New York Times.

Specializations

Race and racism, evangelicalism, reproductive politics, white nationalism, hate crimes

Representative publications

2019 “Gender and Religion.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press

2018 “Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement” American Anthropologist, 120 (4).

2015    “Feminist Ethnography in Cyberspace: Imagining Families in the Cloud,” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. 73(3): 113-124.

 

Awards

2018-2019       Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Vanderbilt

2018-2019       Mellon Digital Humanities Faculty Fello