The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political, and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City. This fellowship is one of the preeminent fellowships of its kind within the social sciences. While in New York City, OU Sociology Professor Dr. Sam Perry will integrate data from over a dozen recent national surveys with a careful reading of Christian nationalist authors to examine how Christian nationalist rhetoric and ideology – a set of beliefs about America’s fundamentally Christian identity and social order – helps perpetuate economic inequality in the United States. When it comes to economic issues, Christian nationalism not only inclines American adherents toward promoting free markets and small government, but it also inclines them to defend the wealthy almost as an ethnic in-group, while demonizing the poor as unworthy takers.
Congratulations Sam on landing this pretigious fellowship!
