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. Currently, she is 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.
Scholarly Work
Books
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk. 2020 (anticipated). Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation.(book manuscript complete and under contract with 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 43 articles)
** Indicates a student coauthor during article preparation.
Amy Adamczyk and Gary LaFree. (2019). (forthcoming). “Religion and Support for Political Violence among Christians and Muslims in Africa.” Sociological Perspectives.
Amy Adamczyk, Gary LaFree, and Maria Barrera-Vilert**. 2019. “Using Google and Twitter to Measure, Validate and Understand Views about Religion across Africa.” Society 56:231-240.
Amy Adamczyk and Yen-Chiao Liao**. 2019. “Examining Public Opinion about LGBTQ-related Issues in the United States and across Multiple Nations.” Annual Review of Sociology 45: 401-423.
Jacob Felson, Amy Adamczyk, and Christopher Thomas**. 2019. “How and Why Have Attitudes about Cannabis Legalization Changed so Much?” Social Science Research. 78: 12-27.
- Lead article on findings in The Conversation (120K reads in the first week). Story published by PBS News hour and Marketwatch. Interview with InfoTrak radio show (over 700 stations).
Amy Adamczyk and Margret Valdimarsdottir**. 2018 “Understanding Americans’ Abortion Attitudes: The Role of the Local Religious Context.” Social Science Research 71: 129-144.
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 deviant, criminal, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. She recently published a book, Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality, that investigates the factors that shape cross-national attitudes about homosexuality. Her research has been published in over 40 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.
