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Stephen Ellingson and Julio Videras
Stephen Ellingson and Julio Videras
Two Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's Board of Trustees during the March meeting. The Board granted tenure to Stephen Ellingson, sociology, and Julio Videras, economics. The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the College presenting final recommendations to the board. Ellingson and Videras will receive the title of associate professor on July 1.

Stephen Ellingson earned a doctorate and master's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.  He is the author of The Megachurch and the Mainline: Remaking Religious Tradition in the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago Press, 2007); co-author of The Sexual Organization of the City (University of Chicago Press, 2004); co-editor of Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Routledge, 2002) and co-author of Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Principles, Cases and Practical Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 2001). He has also taught at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Health Care, and the University of Chicago. Ellingson has served as book review co-editor and associate editor of the American Journal of Sociology.

His research interests are the sociology of religion, sociology of culture, and social movements and collective behavior. His current research, funded by the Louisville Institute, examines the relationships among religious and non-religious environmental organizations.

Julio Videras has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In September 2007 he and Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen published  "Culture and Public Goods: The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" in The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The paper uses new statistical methods to characterize religious beliefs and concludes that culture does play a role in determining pro-environment behavior. 

Videras has also published in Ecological Economics, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, the Review of Social Economy, the Journal of Socio-Economics, and Contemporary Economic Policy.

In November 2006 he and his students collaborated with Zogby International on the Climate Change and Environment Issues Youth Poll, that found American high-school students do not understand climate change issues well.

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