Social Science Research Council
Jonathan VanAntwerpen is program officer for the Project on Religion and International Affairs. Currently completing his Ph.D. in the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, he received a BA from Calvin College, and an MA in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation investigates the transnational struggles over “reconciliation” that have occurred in the aftermath of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, focusing in particular on the ways that prominent conceptions of reconciliation have been transformed by both religious and secular engagements with the politics of transitional justice.
VanAntwerpen is co-editor (with Michael Burawoy) of an online volume entitled Producing Public Sociology (2nd edition, 2005), and co-author (with Craig Calhoun) of “Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Hierarchy: ‘Mainstream’ Sociology and its Challengers,” forthcoming in Sociology in America: The ASA Centennial History (University of Chicago Press). The author of “Resisting Sociology’s Seductive Name: Frederick J. Teggart and Sociology at Berkeley” in Diverse Histories of American Sociology (Brill, 2005), and “Critical Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Imagination” in Thesis Eleven (February 2006), he has written additional articles on the history of American sociology, and co-authored two book chapters on contemporary transformations of higher education for David L. Kirp’s Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard University Press, 2003). Prior to coming to the Council, he served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation's Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program, examining recent efforts by American colleges and universities to promote greater degrees of "civic engagement."
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