Jacqui Frost University of Minnesota * Department of Sociology * Minneapolis, MN * jacquifrost@gmail.com EDUCATION University of Minnesota, Twin Cities PhD Sociology, 2019 expected Dissertation: Modern but Not Meaningless: Investigating Lived Non-religion at the Sunday Assembly Committee: Penny Edgell (Advisor), Doug Hartmann, Kathy Hull, Mark Snyder (Psychology) Portland State University M.S. Sociology, 2012 Thesis: Atheist Scripts in a Nation of Religiosity: Identity Politics within the Atheist Movement Committee: Robert Liebman, Peter Collier, David Morgan University of Wyoming B.A. Sociology and Journalism, 2009 AREAS OF INTEREST sociology of culture, non-religion/religion, mixed methods PUBLICATIONS Jacqui Frost and Penny Edgell. Rescuing Nones from the Reference Category: Civic Engagement Among the Non-religious in America. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Accepted, in press. Penny Edgell, Jacqui Frost, and Evan Stewart. 2017. From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Non-Religion. Social Currents 4(6): 556 574. Jacqui Frost. 2017. Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly. Pp. 171-190 in Organized Secularism in the United States, edited by Ryan Cragun, Lori Fazzino, and Christel Manning. De Gruyter. Jacqui Frost and Penny Edgell. 2017. Distinctiveness Reconsidered: Religiosity, Structural Location, and Understandings of Racial Inequality. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(2): 277-301. Evan Stewart, Jacqui Frost, and Penny Edgell. 2017. Intersectionality and Power: Notes from the Editors. Introduction to special issue of Secularism & Nonreligion. Jacqui Frost. 2016. Review of American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, by Joseph Baker and Buster Smith. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(1): 195-196. 1 Jacqui Frost
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Anna Welsch Bright Research Award, University of Minnesota. 2018 Edelstein Fellowship, American Mosaic Project. 2014-2017 Summer Research Fellowship, American Mosaic Project. 2015 Ron Anderson Technology and Social Cohesion Award. 2014. Group award for The Society Pages graduate board Sociology Department Fellowship, University of Minnesota. 2013-2014 EDITORAL Assistant Editor, Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Blog. Jan 2017 present. Managing Editor, The Society Pages, 2016-2018 Graduate Editor, 2014-2016 Guest Editor, Secularism & Nonreligion, Volume 6, 2017. Special Issue Topic: Intersectionality and Power, with co-editors Evan Stewart and Penny Edgell. Graduate Editor, Assigned: Life With Gender. 2016. Edited by Lisa Wade, Doug Hartmann, and Chris Uggen. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 2018. The Limits of Rationality: Pushing Back Against Rationalized Systems with a Moral Logic of Care, with Penny Edgell. Forthcoming at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting: Minneapolis, MN. 2016. 'I Want to be an Atheist at Some Point': Quest as an Orientation to Non-religiosity. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference: Atlanta, GA 2016. From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Non- Religion, with Penny Edgell and Evan Stewart. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference: Atlanta, GA 2016. Critic-Participant on Author-meets-Critic panel for Recognizing the Nonreligious: Reimagining the Secular, by Lois Lee. Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Conference: Seattle, WA 2016. Non-religion as Quest: The Collective Search for Positive Non-religious Identities at the Sunday Assembly. Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL 2015. Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Organizing Atheist Church in Minneapolis/St. Paul. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL 2 Jacqui Frost
2014. Is Community a Priority for the Non-religious?: Attitudes Toward Civic Engagement Among the Nones. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference: Indianapolis, IN 2014. Atheist Churches: All of the Community with 'None' of the Theology. Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network, 3 rd International Conference: Claremont, CA 2014. Religiosity and Structural Location: Heterogeneous Effects on Understandings of African American Inequality. Sociology Department Workshop Series, University of Minnesota 2012. Coming Out and Keeping Quiet: Identity Deployment Among Portland Atheists. Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting: San Diego, CA. RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS Research Assistant, Nonverts: A Survey of America's Ex-Religious Landscape, Aug. 2017 Dec. 2017 Principle Investigator: Stephen Bullivant, PhD Conducted interviews for book project Research Assistant, Talking About Social Controversies Project, University of Minnesota, Jan. 2017 Aug. 2017 PIs: Penny Edgell, Phd, Kathy Hull, PhD Collection and analysis of focus group data; study design and implementation Research Assistant, American Mosaic Project, University of Minnesota, May 2015 Jan. 2017 PIs: Penny Edgell, PhD, Joe Gerteis, PhD, Doug Hartmann PhD Survey data management and analysis; literature reviews; manuscript editing Program Evaluator, Healthy Families Initiative, St. Stephens Human Services, Minneapolis, MN, Jan. 2015 - July 2015 PIs: Arturo Baiocchi, PhD, Alain Vandormael, PhD Conducted ethnographic observations of support groups; interviewed staff members Research Assistant, Flexible Work and Well-Being Study, University of Minnesota, May 2014 Aug. 2014 PIs: Phyllis Moen, PhD, Erin Kelly, PhD Conducted qualitative coding of interview data; helped draft Report to Respondents Research Assistant, Mothers and Families Project: The Impact of Child Reunification on Recidivism for Female Offenders, Portland State University, Sept. 2010 Aug. 2014 PIs: Melissa Thompson, PhD, Summer Newell, PhD candidate Transcribed over 100 interviews; aided in qualitative coding and analysis Research Assistant, Gender Differences in Drug Use and Crime: Patterns of Continuity and Change, Portland State University, Sept. 2011-June 2012 PIs: Melissa Thompson, PhD, Chris Uggen, PhD Constructed a large quantitative data set using census data 3 Jacqui Frost
Research Assistant, Examining Race and Ownership Status in Long-Time Businesses and Organizations: Reactions to Gentrification, Portland State University, March 2011 - June 2011 PI: Daniel Sullivan, PhD Conducted background research; interviewed neighborhood residents TEACHING Instructor Metropolitan State University -GNDR 201: Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (Spring 2018) University of Minnesota -SOC 1001: Introduction to Sociology Online course (Summer 2017) Graduate Teaching Assistant Guest Lecturer University of Minnesota -Atheists and Others in the U.S. (Fall 2017) -Introduction to Sociology Discussion leader (Spring 2014) -Love, Sex, and Marriage (Fall 2013) Portland State University - Sociology of the Family Online hybrid course (Spring 2012) - Sociology of Mental Illness (Spring 2012, Spring 2011) - Education and Equality: Comparing the U.S. and Japan (Fall 2011) - Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2011) - Minorities (Fall 2011) - Criminology (Winter 2011) -Sociology of Deviance - Online hybrid course (Fall 2010) 2017. The History, and Sociology, of Secularism. Invited lecture for undergraduate class Atheists and Others in the U.S., University of Minnesota. 2016. Methods and Measurement in the Sociology of Religion and Non-religion. Invited lecture for undergraduate class Introduction to Sociology, University of Minnesota. 2015. Studying Non-religion with Survey Data. Invited lecture for undergraduate class Sociological Research Methods, University of Minnesota. 4 Jacqui Frost
Private Tutor McNamara Academic Center, University of Minnesota, June 2015 Dec. 2016 Student-athlete tutor for sociology, statistics, and writing WyzAnt Tutoring, September 2012 Dec. 2016 Private tutor for high school/college study skills, paper writing, ACT/SAT/GRE test prep SERVICE Graduate Affairs Committee, University of Minnesota, 2017-2018 Sociology Research Institute, Organizing Committee, University of Minnesota, 2015-2016 Sociology Department Workshop Committee, University of Minnesota, 2014-2015 Sociology Graduate Student Representative, Portland State University, 2010-2012 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Midwest Sociological Society 5 Jacqui Frost