Christopher Bail
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University.
Director of the Duke Polarization Lab.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of Michigan, 2011-2013.
Measuring Culture, by John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry, has been published by Columbia University Press (July 2020).
Paul Lazarsfeld Award, Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association, for "Exposureto Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media," 2019.
Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, for a Duke faculty member who embodies the highest values of scholarship, teaching, and collegiality, 2019.
Guggenheim Fellow, 2018.
Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017.
Christopher Bail's first book, Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream, has been published by Princeton University Press (2014).
Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 2016.
Distinguished Book Award, Religion Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.
Honorable Mention, Charles Tilly Award for Best Book, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.
Junior Theorist Award (for scholar less than 8 years post-PhD), Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2015.