Mark Regnerus
Home Department: Sociology
Office: BUR 572
Office Hours: M 1-3, W 10-12, and by appointment
Phone: (512) 232-6307
regnerus@prc.utexas.edu
Mark Regnerus is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, where he is also a Faculty Research Associate with the Population Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 2000. His work emphasizes the mixed effects that religion may have (positive as well as negative), and the multiple contexts (family, friends) in which people experience religion. Author of over 25 published articles and book chapters, he works in the areas of the sociology of religion, American adolescent behavior and development, and HIV/AIDS in Africa. His research offers a developmental, intergenerational way of looking at how religion plays a significant role in socialization processes, attitude formation, and decision-making. His next big project is a book manuscript (also with Oxford) on how religion shapes the experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa—from what congregations are doing to stem the tide to how religious individuals are at diminished risk of being infected themselves. His recent work has been published in such journals as Social Forces, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, The Sociological Quarterly, Review of Religious Research, and Social Science Research. Twice awarded the Best Article from the American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of Religion, Regnerus is also a collaborator on the Lilly Endowment-funded National Study of Youth and Religion. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and is a council member for the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Religion. Results from his published research have been featured in the USA Today, The Washington Post, Detroit News, Time Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Christianity Today, among other media outlets. He lives in Austin with his wife Deeann and two children.