Profile
Brian Steensland
Project Director, Media Depictions of Moral and Cultural Contention
in the U.S.
Brian Steensland is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology
at Princeton University. His fields of interest include politics,
economics, culture, and religion with an empirical focus on post-war
American society. He is completing his dissertation on the rise
and fall of guaranteed income strategies to reform the American
welfare system in the 1960s and 1970s. He has written on the role
of mainline Protestants in advocacy for the poor, the effects of
trust in others on economic transactions, and his paper (with co-authors)
on classifying religious groups in America won the 2000 "Best
Article" award from the American Sociological Association's
Sociology of Religion section. Brian was involved in the Center's
project on public conflict over the arts in Philadelphia from 1965-1997,
which has produced working papers, books chapters, and article manuscripts.
He is currently managing a collaborative project with Paul DiMaggio
entitled "Trends in Depictions of Moral and Cultural Contention
in the U.S. Press, 1985-1997." The project examines how the
imagery of cultural conflict in American politics has diffused over
time, and why some conflicts are understood in cultural terms and
others are not.
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