Arthur E Farnsley II is director of the Religion and Urban Culture 2.0 Project. He is the author of five books and his work has appeared on the cover of Christian Century and Christianity Today magazines as well as in newspapers across the US. He was the Research Director for the original Religion and Urban…
Soulit Chacko is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Religion and Urban Culture 2.0. She is a qualitative sociologist and her research interests center on immigration, race, ethnicity and religion, gender, and body and embodiment. She uses ethnographic methods to illuminate migrant experiences in the U.S., drawing attention to how race, religion, and gender is experienced…
Abbey Chambers is a qualitative researcher who analyzes the impacts of economic development and community change from the perspectives of individuals in economically marginalized communities. Her approach combines social and cultural theories with ethnographic methods to evaluate economic policy for its effectiveness in promoting equitable and inclusive communities. She has contributed to studies on housing…
Jason Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. An historian by training, his research and writing interests generally center on religion, politics, and law, with some work about Disney thrown in for good measure. He is the author of seven books, including Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America’s…
Kayla received a B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs with certificates in Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cincinnati; an M.A. from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy-IUPUI. She is interested in examining how Black women create agency, shape their lived experiences, and build social capital regardless of the political…
Sally Frazer is a first-year graduate student in the public history program at IUPUI. She graduated from Purdue University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology. She received her J.D. from the IU McKinney School of Law in 2020 and joined RUC 2.0 as a graduate assistant in July of 2021….
Lauren Palmer graduated from Marian University with a double major in Spanish and French. She received her Master of Arts in Teaching Spanish from IUPUI. Lauren has always been passionate about language and culture, and she is devoted to sharing that passion with students and her community. In the past, Lauren has taught as an…
John Peyton is a Public History graduate student at IUPUI. His research focuses on Indigenous peoples and questions of sovereignty in the Western Great Lakes at the turn of the 19th century. He has been working for the Polis Center on the RUC 2.0 project since December 2020 and is grateful for the experience he…