Brief C.V. William (Beau) Weston

Centre College 143 St. Mildred’s Ct.

Danville, KY 40422 beau.weston@centre.edu Danville, KY 40422

(859) 238-8789 (859) 238-7580

Position

2006 - National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Sociology, Centre College

2005-06 NEH Associate Professor of Sociology, Centre College

1997-05 Associate Professor of Sociology, Centre College; Centre Scholar 2001–03

1990-97 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Centre College

1987-90 Research Associate, OERI, U.S. Department of Education

Education

1988 Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University

1986 M.A.R., Ethics, Yale Divinity School

1986 M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University

1985 M.A., Sociology, Yale University

1982 B.A. with High Honors, Swarthmore College

Selected Honors and Awards

2004 Kirk Award for Excellence in Teaching, Centre College

2004 Delivered the Willson-Gross Lectures at Union College (KY)

1998-04 Rhodes Consultation on Church Related Colleges

1995- Who's Who in the South and Southwest

1995-99 Staff member, Associated Colleges of the South Teaching Workshop

1993-02 Featured Speaker, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau

1984 Mary C. Tew Prize, Yale University

1982 Phi Beta Kappa, Bramson Prize in Sociology, Swarthmore College

Selected Grants

2004 “Teaching the Reformed Tradition,” Wabash Center

2000 “Religious History of Centre College.” Rhodes Consultation

1999 “Vocation of the Presbyterian Teacher.” Wabash Center

1999 “Christian Intellectuals.” Louisville Institute.

1992 "Christian Realism and Family Life." Louisville Institute.

Selected Publications

The Gruntled Center: Faith and Family for Centrists. A daily blog, at http://gruntledcenter.blogspot.com.

Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2003.

Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator. Edited, with Duncan Ferguson. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2003.

Presbyterian Pluralism: Competition in a Protestant House. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1997.

Education and the American Family: A Research Synthesis, ed. New York Univ. Press, 1989.

"Politics of Mainline Protestant Clergy: Presbyterian Church (USA)." In Pulpits and Politics: Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium, edited by Corwin Smidt. Baylor University Press, 2004.

"The Battle of Lexington and Wilmore." Christianity Today, Vol. 46, no. 3 (March 11, 2002): 46 – 49.

“The ‘Fidelity and Chastity’ Amendment: A Competition to Renew the Presbyterian Church.” In Reformed Vitality, D. Luidens, H. Stoeffels, and C. Smidt, eds. Univ. Press of America, 1998.

"The Hidden Class Struggle in American Class and Family Research." Sociological Imagination. Vol. 34 no. 1 (1997): 19 - 27.

"Teaching American Denominational Religion.” Teaching Sociology, 25, 2 (April 1995):159-64.

"The Presbyterian Presence Series: A Review Essay." [Series edited by Milton Coalter, John Mulder, and Louis Weeks]. Sociology of Religion Vol. 54 no. 2 (Summer 1993): 221-25.

"Presbyterian Seminaries." In James C. Carper and Thomas Hunt, eds., Religious Seminaries in America: A Selected Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989.

Book reviews for Choice, Social Forces, Contemporary Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Rev. of Religious Research, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, First Things, Lexington Herald-Leader.

Selected Courses

Introduction to Sociology

Social Structure

Introduction to Family Life

Cafés and Public Life

Sociology of American Religion

Macrosociological Theory

Class Culture

Professional Societies

American Sociological Association (sections: Religion; Family)

Association for the Sociology of Religion

Religious Research Association

Association of Christians Teaching Sociology

Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky (President, 1994-95)

International Society for the Study of Reformed Communities

Church Service

2005- Reforming Ministry Program, Presbyterian Church (USA)

2000-03 Task Force on Higher Education, Presbyterian Church (USA)

1999-02 Task Force on Changing Families, Presbyterian Church (USA)

1998-99 Member, Public Education and Religion in Kentucky Task Force

1993- Ruling Elder, PC (USA), Danville Presbyterian Church

Personal

Home town: Plymouth Meeting, PA.

Wife: Susan Perkins Weston

Children: Molly, Nora, Joe