Social Science Research Council

Program Officer/Research Fellow

vanantwerpen@ssrc.org
Office Phone: Ext. 612

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is an SSRC research fellow and program officer for Council projects on religion and the public sphere. 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. He is editor of The Immanent Frame, an SSRC blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.

VanAntwerpen is co-editor (with Michael Burawoy) of an online volume entitled Producing Public Sociology (2nd edition, 2005), and co-author (with Craig Calhoun) of “Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Hierarchy: ‘Mainstream’ Sociology and its Challengers,” in Sociology in America (University of Chicago Press, 2007). His forthcoming publications include: “Reconciliation Reconceived: Religion, Secularism, and the Language of Transition” in Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir, eds., The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Oxford University Press); and “Moral Globalization and Discursive Struggle: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, and Cosmopolitan Discourse” in Steven Heydemann and David C. Hammack, Philanthropic Projections: Sending Institutional Logics Abroad (Indiana University Press). His dissertation investigates the transnational struggles over “reconciliation” that have occurred in the aftermath of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, focusing in particular on the ways that prominent conceptions of reconciliation have been transformed by both religious and secular engagements with the politics of transitional justice.