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Philip S. Gorski (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1996) is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. His empirical work focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, revolution, economic development and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Other current interests include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences and the nature and role of rationality in social life. Among his recent publications are The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2003); Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (Stanford, 2004); “The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation,” Sociological Methodology, 2004; American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2017); and The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022), which he co-authored with Samuel Perry.
Philip Gorski is Co-Director (with Julia Adams) of Yale’s Center for Comparative Research (CCR), and co-runs the Religion and Politics Colloquium at the Yale MacMillan Center.
Author of the New York Times bestseller The Color of Compromise, president and cofounder of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, and cohost of the podcast Pass the Mic, Jemar Tisby studies race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century. His dissertation, “Soul Liberation: Black Christian Intellectual Engagement with Black Power,” offers a comparative intellectual history of Christianity and the Black Power movement.
Tisby’s scholarship and social justice work have positioned him as a public-facing historian providing expert commentary on numerous TV news outlets such as CNN, NPR, and MSNBC in addition to academic conference presentations and keynote addresses at Notre Dame, Baylor, and Washington University in St. Louis. His second book, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice, was released in January 2021.