Jeremy N. Thomas

Department of Sociology
Purdue University
700 We
st State Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
765-494-4668
jnthomas@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Purdue University Department of Sociology





Jeremy Thomas is a Ph.D. Candidate researching the sociological interaction of religion and sexuality. Along these lines, he is working on his dissertation, "Sexual Moral Strategies in American Evangelicalism: Negotiating Homosexuality in a Pluralist Society," which investigates the shifting tactics by which evangelicalism has sought to regulate homosexuality among both its adherents and society at large during the last 50 years. He is also currently working on several other projects including a quantitative analysis of religious supply and demand as well as an ongoing qualitative study of a gay evangelical congregation. Outside of the sociology of religion, other academic interests of his include sexual deviance, body modification, mental illness, addiction, Marxist theory, feminist theory, queer theory, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and discourse analysis.