Frank J. Lechner

Director of Graduate Studies & Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Telephone: 404-727-7530
FAX: 404-727-7532
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: 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

• SOC 266: Global Change
• SOC 457: Development of Sociological Theory
• SOC 523: Social Change
• SOC 540: Basic Theoretical Problems

Additional Info:

The Globalization Web Site