RUTH BRAUNSTEIN
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Podcasts 

March 26, 2020 | “Connecting Religion and Money in History & Today,” Center for Theological Inquiry Podcast. 

January 2, 2020 |  “Prophets and Patriots,” Series on the Religious Left. Straight White American Jesus Podcast. 

September 20, 2018 | Episode 16: Faith & Activism on the Political Divide, d'Archive on WHUS Radio, hosted by Graham Stinnett.  

September 21, 2017 | Prophets and Patriots, New Books in Political Science Podcast, hosted by Heath Brown. 

June 12, 2014 | ASR: The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations, SAGE Sociology Podcast, with Brad R. Fulton

Upcoming Lectures and Public Talks

More to come soon! 
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Previous Lectures and Public Talks

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May 9, 2018 | The Moral Meaning of Taxes, Committee for the Study of Religion at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

​April 20, 2018 | The Moral Meaning of Taxes, Cultural & Political Sociology Workshop, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

April 18, 2018 | Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, Sociology Department Colloquium, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 

March 26, 2018 | Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Notre Dame. 

March 1, 2018 | Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, Outstanding Sociology Opportunity Speaker Series, Baylor University. 

​February 15, 2018 | Religion, Resistance, and Competing Stories of America in 2016 and Beyond,  Media Activism Research Collective (MARC), University of Pennsylvania.

November 16, 2017 | Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (Sponsors:  Center for Ethnographic Research, Center for Right-Wing Studies, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion), University of California, Berkeley ​

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November 5, 2017 | Author-Meets-Critics - Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

October 14, 2017 | Author-Meets-Critics - Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. (Pictured at left, with Grace Yukich, Gary Adler and Rhys Williams)
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August 14, 2017 | “Imagining the Nation: Stories of National Belonging Across the Political Divide,” Chair’s Session: Nations, Nationalism, and National Belonging at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

April 28, 2016 | “Putting Faith in Action in the Tea Party and Faith-Based Community Organizing” at the Religion and Politics in American Public Life Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; the Department of Political Science; and the Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York, NY.

April 21, 2016 | “Religion, Nationalism and the Tea Party Movement,” at the UConn Center for Learning in Retirement (CLIR), Storrs, CT.

April 6, 2016 | “Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide” at the Storrs/Willimantic Branch of the AAUW, Willimantic, CT.

March 31, 2016 | “Making Sense of the Topsy-Turvy 2016 Presidential Race” (Panelist). University of Connecticut Alumni Association , Boston, MA.

February 12, 2016 | “Putting Faith (in Democracy) in Action in Tea Party and Faith-Based Community Organizing” at the Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

December 2, 2015 | “Making Sense of the Topsy-Turvy 2016 Presidential Race” (Panelist). University of Connecticut Alumni Association, Hartford, CT.

November 16, 2015 | “Good Citizen / Bad Citizen: Civility Discourse as Boundary-Work” at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Public Discourse Project Seminar, Storrs, CT.

November 4, 2015 | “Religion, Nationalism, and the Tea Party Movement” at the Sociology Department Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the Government Department), Colby College, Waterville, ME.

October 9, 2015 | “Good Citizen / Bad Citizen: Civility Discourse as Boundary-Work” at the Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

April 15, 2015 | “Prophets and Patriots: Practicing Citizenship Across the Political Divide” at the Joint Meeting of the Lower CT Valley and Shoreline Branches of the AAUW, Westbrook, CT.

March 24, 2014 | “Citizens, Government, and God: The Democratic Imagination in Community Organizing and the Tea Party” at the Religion & Politics Colloquium, The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics and Society, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

April 2, 2013 | “Holding Government Accountable: How Cultural Logics Shape Democratic Practice in Community Organizing and the Tea Party” at Lehigh University’s Humanities Center Panel on Contemporary Political Movements: Decoding the Political Tides: The Tea Party & Occupy Wall Street, Bethlehem, PA.

December 7, 2011 | “Accountability is in Relationships,” at the Craft of Ethnography Workshop, New York, NY.