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Elaine is an institution-builder with a focus on university leadership and public scholarship and communication.

Read her H. Paul Douglass lecture, on how she approaches reaching out to religious leaders with research insights → 

Elaine Howard Ecklund speaks and consults widely on the topics of religion and science, religion in workplaces, and gender representation in science

Speaking & Consulting 

Elaine speaks and consults widely on the topics of religion and science, religion in workplaces, and gender representation in science. To see if Elaine is available to speak at your organization please fill out this form. 

Elaine Howard Ecklund is interested in new approaches to mentoring

Mentoring

Elaine is interested in new approaches to mentoring. She is privileged to have worked with multiple postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students in research, and in 2023 she received the Rice University Presidential Mentoring Award.

Graduate students Elaine mentored as a PhD thesis advisor: 

Bianca Mabute-Louie, Sociology, Rice University (2023- )

Jauhara Ferguson, Sociology, Rice University (2019-2025)
Assistant Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College

Brenton Kalinowski, Sociology, Rice University (2019-2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Indiana University

Esmeralda Sanchez Salazar, Sociology, Rice University (2016-2023) [Co-Advisor]
Assistant Professor, William and Mary

Dan Bolger, Sociology, Rice University (2016-2022)
Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University

Simranjit Khalsa, Sociology, Rice University (2013-2020)
Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

Di Di, Sociology, Rice University (2012-2019)
Associate Professor, University of Santa Clara

Postdoctoral fellows Elaine advised and mentored: 

Sarah Reynolds, Boniuk Institute, Rice University (2024- )      

Josiah Taru, Boniuk Institute, Rice University (2023- )

Kerby Goff, Sociology, Rice University (2023)
Associate Director of Research, Boniuk Institute, Rice University

Oneya Okuwobi, Rice Academy Fellow, Rice University (2021-2022)
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati

Jacqui Frost, Sociology, Rice University (2020-2022)
Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Rachel Schneider, Sociology, Rice University (2019-2022)
Assistant Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Bob Thomson, Sociology, Rice University (2017-2019)
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Pamela Prickett, Sociology, Rice University (2015-2017)
Associate Professor, Pomona College

Brandon Vaidyanathan, Sociology, Rice University (2013-2015)
Professor, Catholic University of America

David Johnson, Sociology, Rice University (2012-2016)
Associate Professor, Georgia State University

Jared Peifer, Sociology, Rice University (2011-2013)
Assistant Professor of Management, Franklin & Marshall College