Mark Mulder
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Office:Spoelhof Center 231
Telephone: (616) 526-6755
E-mail: mmulder@calvin.edu

Mark Mulder joined the Calvin faculty in 2002. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research is in urban studies. Prof. Mulder is particularly interested in both residential patterns and in social service agencies. His dissertation examined the roles of congregations in the process of "white flight." More recently, he has written articles about faith-based homeless shelters and intentional communities. Mark has also presented on the concept of "place" in urban neighborhoods, pedagogy for sociology classes, and the various manners in which congregations have responded to changing neighborhood demographics. For the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 academic years, Mark and colleague James K.A. Smith have been named the Calvin Center for Social Research Fellows. They will be working on a project that examines the relationship of evangelicals and suburbanization. Prof. Mulder is also working on a project in cooperation with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship that seeks to understand the ways that worship might influence church attendees' sense of place. At Calvin, he has taught Diversity and Inequality of the US, Urban Sociology, the Sociology Internship Seminar, and the Project Neighborhood Seminar.

In January of 2005 Prof. Mulder taught an interim class that explored U2, spirituality, and social justice. The class was featured in both Christianity Today Online and MTV News.