Profiles of Major Amish Settlements in North America: A Guide for Researchers and Service Providers
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Anderson, Cory, and Rachel Bacon. 2024.
12(1).
Welcome!
I AM A PROFESSIONAL SOCIOLOGIST WHO:
- Conducts research on distinctive populations
- Teaches and mentors university students
- Develops knowledge-enhancing programs involving scholars, service providers, and population members
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Population dynamics (ethnicity / culture / sectarianism), demography (fertility / migration), population
health, public policy, social theory, concepts of “other” people
CAREER:
I employ a diverse social science training—demography, sociology, planning, geography—to address research questions from multiple positions and offer diverse courses with active learning components.
As an early career scholar, I have conceptualized multiple sole-authored and colleague/student-co-authored publications that have instigated exciting conversations in my research area.
Research By Project
Popluation Health
- Amish Population Health Review Series
- Buggy-Motor Vehicle Crash Studies
- Other Health Studies
Culture & Religion
- Project: An American System of Separatism in Non-American Contexts
- Project: Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions: The Perpetual Destabilization of Ethnic Sectarianism
Demography
- Population Structure—Fertility, Mortality, Composition
- Project: Migration and Community
Meta Reviews & Theory
- Project: Reviews by Topic
- Project: Patterns Of Knowledge Production
- Encyclopedia / Handbook Profiles
Public Perception
Plain People Profiles
Rich, Context-Sensitive Research
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The Cultural and Religious Complexities of Amish-Focused Mental Health Conditions Research: Insights from an Exhaustive Narrative Review and Case Study of Counseling Controversies.
Mental Health, Religion & Culture.
Anderson, Cory, and Lindsey Potts.
North America’s Amish-Mennonites Adopt Abroad: The Ideologies and Institutional Conditions That Cracked the Homogeneity of an Ethnic Religion
Social Compass
Anderson, Cory, and Jennifer Anderson. 2023.
70(3):403-27.
The Work of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Annotations of His 1940s Amish Publications
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Anderson, Cory. 2023.
11(1):95-105.
County-level Contributions to the U.S. Religion Census
2020 U.S. Religion Census. Kansas City,
MO: Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
The Population Structure of the Amish: The Demographic Architecture of One of America’s Fastest Growing Groups
Presented at the Population Association of America annual conference. New Orleans, LA.
Anderson, Cory, and Stephanie Thiehoff. 2023.
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