Officers, Board, and other Leadership, 2018-2022
The RC22 leadership team consists of three Officers and ten Board Members, plus appointees for special projects. The Board and Officers serve for four year terms, beginning and ending with the ISA World Congresses. Each major world region is represented. The Past President serves on the Board ex officio.
- President: Afe ADOGAME, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
- Vice-President: Mar GRIERA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Secretary/Treasurer: Anna HALAFOFF, Deakin University, Australia
- Board Members
Africa
Lovemore NDLOVU, Zimbabwe
Michael OKYEREFO, University of Ghana, Ghana
Asia/Australia/Pacific
Hossein GODAZGAR, Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK
SAKURAI Yoshihide, Hokkaido University, Japan
Europe
Milda ALIŠAUSKIENĖ, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Olga BRESKAYA, University of Padua, Italy
Latin America
Roberta Bivar CAMPOS, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Juan Cruz ESQUIVEL, National Research Council, Argentina
North America
Jualynne DODSON, Michigan State University, USA
Conrad HACKETT, Pew Research Center, USA - Past President: Jim SPICKARD, University of Redlands, USA
- Liaison with Other Scholarly Organizations in the Sociology of Religion:
SISR/ISSR: SAKURAI Yoshihide, Hokkaido University, Japan - Program Coordinators for the 19th World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 2018:
Anna HALAFOFF, Deakin University
Carolyn STARKEY, University of Leeds
Sam HAN, University of Western Australia - Program Coordinator(s) for the 4th Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2020:
Eloísa MARTÍN, United Arab Emirates University
Roberta Bivar CAMPOS, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Juan Cruz ESQUIVEL, National Research Council, Argentina - Program Coordinators for the 20th World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, July 2022:
TBA
Elections for President, Secretary/Treasurer, and Board Members occur in the Spring before each World Congress. The Board appoints one of more Vice-Presidents. After consulting the Board, the President appoints liaisons with other scholarly organizations. The President also appoints Program Coordinators for our various conferences.
Purpose:
RC-22 was established in order to expand the role of the Sociology of Religion in the International Sociological Association. The Research Committee:
- provides opportunities for personal and institutional contacts between sociologists of religion worldwide;
- encourages the dissemination of social-scientific knowledge about religion;
- facilitates and promotes international meetings between sociologists of religion in many countries;
- assists graduate students in the sociology of religion in broadening their international awareness;
- helps under-represented countries use RC-22 resources and facilities.