Roman Williams, Assistant Professor, Sociology
616-526-6026
roman.williams@calvin.edu
Office: Spoelhof Center 237
Weekly Schedule
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Personal Website
http://calvin.academia.edu/RomanWilliams
Educational Background
- BS Messiah College
- MDiv Columbia International University
- ThM Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- PhD Boston University
Teaching Interests
Introductory sociology, sociology of religion, visual sociology, and senior seminar
Research Interests
Religion, culture, and globalization; religion in everyday life; and the use of visual methods in the sociology of religion
Selected Publications
Ammerman, Nancy T. and Roman R. Williams. 2012. “Speaking of Methods: Eliciting Religious Narratives through Interviews, Photos, and Oral Diaries.” Pp. 129–146 in Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 3: New Methods in the Sociology of Religion. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Williams, Roman R. 2012. “An Invitation to Sociology.” Pp. 259–277 in Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, edited by David S. Dockery. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing.
Williams, Roman R. 2012. “Missionaries.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Williams, Roman R. 2010. “Space for God: Lived Religion at Work, Home, and Play.” Sociology of Religion71(3):257-279.
