Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study

Professor Chaves specializes in the sociology of religion. Most of his research is on the social organization of religion in the United States. Among other projects, he directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations conducted in 1998, 2006-07, 2012, and 2018-19. NCS results have helped us to better understand many aspects of con

Anna Holleman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate affiliated with the Duke University Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and the Duke University Department of Sociology. Her work centers on religion, health, and inequality. Her current research focuses specifically on the health and well-being of religious leaders, congregational political mobilization, and the shifting nature of the American religious landscape in the contemporary social climate. She pursues these research

PHD Student -- Department of SociologyCurrently I am interested in studying religion and religious institutions--specifically how religion shapes culture and political ideology. Previously I studied at Vanderbilt University where I received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology with a minor in Russian.