Brandon Vaidyanathan

Brandon Vaidyanathan

Department of Sociology, Catholic University of America
Brandon Vaidyanathan
Brandon Vaidyanathan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. He holds an MSc in Management from HEC Montreal and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. His research examines the cultural dimensions of religious, commercial, medical, and scientific institutions, and has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals. He is author of Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South (Cornell University Press, 2019) and co-author of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019). His ongoing research examines well-being in various institutional contexts.