Education
PhD Pennsylvania State University (2005, Sociology)
MA Graduate Center/ Queens College, City University of New York (2001, Sociology)
AM University of Chicago (2000, Social Sciences)
BA Hunter College, City University of New York (1998, Sociology)
AAS Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York (1997, Fashion Design)
Bio
Dr. Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. In 2005 she received her PhD. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. She holds MA degrees from the University of Chicago and the Graduate Center/ Queens College, and she completed her BA degree at Hunter College. For 2020-2021, she was the Interim Deputy Executive Officer for the Program of Doctoral Study in Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center.
She is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. With her colleague she received the 2017 Best Paper of the Year Award from the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. In 2009 John Jay College awarded her the Donald MacNamara Award for Junior Faculty, in 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016, and 2019 she was the recipient of John Jay College’s Research Excellence Award, and in 2011 she received the John Jay College's Midcareer Award. Her research has been supported with grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. With her coauthor Christian Smith, in April 2021 she will publish Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation with Oxford University Press.
JJC Affiliations
Scholarly Work
Books
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk. (Forthcoming in April 2021). Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Amy Adamczyk. 2017. Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section Outstanding Book Award for 2018
- Reviews: Gary L. Hansens in the American Journal of Sociology, 2018 124(1) Pp. 248-250., Jeremiah J. Garretson in Public Opinion Quarterly 82(3) Pp. 605-607, Tina Fetner in Contemporary Sociology, 2019 48(1) Pp. 34-35, Gowoon Jung in Sociological Inquiry, 2018 88(4) Pp. 752-754, Rosemary Booth in The Gay and Lesbian Review, 2017 Nov/Dec Pp. 39, and Brigitte Khoury in PsycCRITIQUES, 2017 62(51).
- Summaries of the book’s findings were published in The Conversation (over 80K reads), Newsweek, Salon, PinkNews, Plus Magazine, Huffington Post, and Academic Minute.
Last five peer-reviewed journal articles (See CV for all 45 articles)
45. Jacob Felson and Amy Adamczyk. 2021. “Online or In-Person? Examining College Decisions to Reopen during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Fall 2020.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7: 1-16.
44. Amy Adamczyk, Chunrye Kim (former student), Leevia Dillon (student). 2020. Public Opinion about Abortion: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Research over the Last 15 Years. Sociological Inquiry 90: 920-954.
43. Amy Adamczyk and Gary LaFree. 2019. “Religion and Support for Political Violence among Christians and Muslims in Africa.” Sociological Perspectives 62:948-979.
42. Jacob Felson, Amy Adamczyk, and Christopher Thomas (student). 2019. “How and Why Have Attitudes about Cannabis Legalization Changed so Much?” Social Science Research 78: 12-27.
41. Amy Adamczyk and Yen-Chiao Liao (student). 2019. “Examining Public Opinion about LGBTQ-related Issues in the United States and across Multiple Nations.” Annual Review of Sociology 45: 401-423.
Research Summary
Professor Amy Adamczyk's research focuses on how different contexts (e.g.nations, counties, friendship groups), and personal religious beliefs shape people’s attitudes and behaviors. In 2017 she published Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality, that investigates the factors that shape cross-national attitudes about homosexuality. In 2021 she will publish Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford University Press) with her coauthor Christian Smith. Her research has been published in 45 peer-reviewed journals, including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science Research, Social Science Quarterly,Sociological Quarterly, Sociology of Religion, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Currently, her coauthored American Sociological Review article, "Religion and Sexual Behaviors," is the second most downloaded article at the flagship journal (27,262 views and downloads, journal impact factor of 6.37).
