Mark Chaves
Professor of Sociology, Religion and Divinity
Duke University
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. Harvard Unviersity
Mark Chaves has a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He is Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity at Duke University. Among other projects, he directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Results from the 1998 NCS have helped us to better understand many aspects of congregational life in the United States. Data collection for Wave II of the NCS recently has been completed. Professor Chaves is the author of Congregations in America (Harvard, 2004), Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (Harvard, 1997) and many articles, mainly on the social organization of religion in the United States. He is Past-Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Religion Section, Chair of the General Social Survey’s Board of Overseers, and President-Elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
