Social Science Research Council

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is editor of The Immanent Frame. An SSRC research fellow, program officer for Council projects on religion & the public sphere, and a fellow at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, he is currently completing his Ph.D. in the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a BA from Calvin College, and an MA in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Contact Jonathan at ifblog@ssrc.org.

Ruth Braunstein is assistant editor of The Immanent Frame. A research assistant for both the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge and the SSRC (where she works on projects on religion & the public sphere), she is also a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology at New York University (where she is studying political sociology, social movements and religion). She received her B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, with a focus on international culture and politics. Contact Ruth at braunstein@ssrc.org.

Nathan Schneider is an editorial assistant for The Immanent Frame. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. from U.C. Santa Barbara, both in religious studies, specializing in philosophy and religion in popular culture. His writing has appeared in several magazines, as well as on his blog, The Row Boat. Contact Nathan at nschneider@ssrc.org.

Daniel Vaca is an editorial assistant for The Immanent Frame. A research assistant for the SSRC, he also is a Ph.D. student in the department of religion at Columbia University. He studies American religious history and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specializing in evangelical Christianity and commercial culture. He holds degrees in religion from the College of William and Mary and the University of Cambridge. Contact Daniel at vaca@ssrc.org.