Landon Schnabel, Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Sociology, was selected as a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of PRRI Public Fellows. This year’s cohort includes 15 interdisciplinary scholars across five focus areas: (1) racial justice and white supremacy, (2) religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism, (3) immigration and migration, (4) LGBTQ rights, and, new this year, (5) reproductive health and rights.
The PRRI Public Fellow selection process was extremely competitive this year, and Professor Schnabel was selected from roughly 90 qualified candidates. This is a testimony not only to Landon’s existing scholarship, but also to the potential PRRI sees in expanding the public impact of his future work.
Professor Schnabel and two other scholars will comprise the LGBTQ research pod. Public Fellows will serve a one-year term, during which time they will learn to more effectively engage general audiences, receive communications support for placing publicly facing work in top-tier media outlets, and receive assistance with integrating PRRI research into their scholarship and teaching. As Public Fellows, Landon and his colleagues will work to broaden public knowledge about the role religion play in both hindering and fostering a healthier public imagination about who we are as a nation at this critical time in history.
The PRRI Public Fellows Program is funded with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.
