KATHLEEN E. JENKINS
Abbreviated CV
Office Address: William & Mary, Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Position: Professor, Department of Sociology. Co-Director, Institute for Pilgrimage Studies W&M
EDUCATION
Brandeis University, Ph.D. (2002), Department of Sociology
Brown University, B.A./M.A. (1996) Religious Studies
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, William & Mary, July 2019--
Professor of Sociology, William & Mary, Spring 2017 --
Associate Professor of Sociology, William & Mary, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, William & Mary, Fall 2011—Spring 2016
Associate Professor of Sociology, William & Mary, Fall 2010—Fall 2010
Assistant Professor of Sociology, William & Mary, Fall 2005 - - Summer 2010
Assistant Professor Part-time, Clark University, Fall 2003 – Spring 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Clark University, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Visiting Lecturer, Brandeis University, Fall 2004
Visiting Lecturer, Clark University, Fall 2001
Senior Research Consultant, Boston College Center for Work and Family, 1999- 2000
HONORS, PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Arts & Sciences Award for Faculty Governance, 2020
Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, 2015
William & Mary Alumni Association Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010
Candace Rogers Award for outstanding graduate student paper. 2002. Eastern Sociological Association. Paper entitled, “Intimate Diversity: The Presentation of Multiculturalism and Multiracialism in the International Churches of Christ.”
Outstanding Teaching Award, Brandeis University, 2000
Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, May 26, 1996
Bachelor of Arts Degree awarded magna cum laude, Brown University, 1996
RESEARCH
Books
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2021. Walking the Way Together: How Families Connect on the Camino de Santiago. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2014. Sacred Divorce: Religion, Therapeutic Culture and Ending Life Partnerships. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2005. “Awesome Families”: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Refereed Journals
Jenkins, Kathleen E., and Ken Chih-Yan Sun. 2019. “Digital Strategies for Building Spiritual Intimacy: Families on a ‘Wired’ Camino.” Qualitative Sociology; 42(4): 567-585. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-019-09432-0
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2016. “Faith in Ethnographic Process.” Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography. 3: 182-189.
Osnowitz, Debbie and Kathleen Jenkins. 2014. “The Theory Forum: Teaching Social Theory through Interactive Practice,” Teaching Sociology, 42(3):245-250.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. and Gerardo Marti. 2012. “Warrior Chicks: Postfeminist Prosperity in an Evangelical Church,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 51(2):241-256.
Reprinted in Sociology of Religion: A Reader (3rd Edition, 2019), William A. Mirola, Michael O. Emerson, and Susanne C. Monahan, eds. New York: Routledge.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2010. “In Concert and Alone: Divorce and Congregational Experience.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 49:(2) 278-292.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2007. “Genetics and Faith: Religious Enchantment through Creative Engagement with Molecular Biology.” Social Forces. 85(4): 1693-1712.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2003. “Intimate Diversity: The Presentation of Multiculturalism and Multiracialism in a High Boundary Religious Movement.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 42(3): 393-409.
Invited Book Chapters and Publications
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2016. “Religion and Family” Invited Chapter. Handbook on Religion and Society. Springer Press. Pp. 219-240.
Review of Books
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2023. Book review for Simon Coleman’s Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Forthcoming.
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2016. Book review for Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’. In Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography. Forthcoming in 3(1) 139-141.
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2013. Book review for Susan Crawford Sullivan’s, Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty. in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(2): 443-444.
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2013. Book review for Julie MacFarlane’s, Islamic Divorce in North America: A Shari’a Path in a Secular Society. In Sociology of Religion 74(1): 135-136.
Jenkins, Kathleen. 2009. Book review for Gerardo Marti’s, Hollywood Faith. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 48(2):402-403.
Jenkins, Kathleen E. 2002. Book review for Bart Landry’s, Black Working Wives. Journal of Marriage and Family. 64(1): 273.