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Department News: Sociology Awards Ceremony
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About the Department

Department of Sociology
Emory University
1555 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: 404-727-7510
Fax: 404-727-7532

Department Administration

Bob Agnew
Chair of Sociology
Irene Browne
Director of Graduate Studies
Alex Hicks
Director of Graduate Recruitment
Jeff Mullis
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Frank J. Lechner

Frank J. Lechner Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7530
FAX: 404-727-7530
E-MAIL: flechn@emory.edu

OFFICE: 214 Tarbutton Hall

Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)

Degree: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1985

General Research Area: global change, culture, religion, theory.

Current Research: national identity in globalization

Selected Publications:

"Rational Choice and Religious Economies," forthcoming in Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
"National Identity and Globalization: Policy Paths and the Process of Reimagining Community" in Proto Sociology
World Culture Cover (Lechner and Boli)World Culture: Origins and Consequences with John Boli. Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
The Globalization Reader (edited with John Boli), Blackwell 2007, third edition.
"Religious Rejections of Globalization" in Religion and Global Civil Society, Oxford 2005.
"Globalization and World Culture" with John Boli, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
"Secularization" Encyclopedia of Protestantism
"Secularization in the Netherlands?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"The Case against Secularization: a Rebuttal," Social Forces

Selected Courses

Additional Info:

The Globalization Web Site