Jeff Guhin

Associate Fellow

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

Jeff Guhin is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his PhD in sociology from Yale. His research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. Guhin’s first book, Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools, came out in January 2021. His current work follows two key theoretical concerns: (1) the relationship between achievement, alienation, and well-being, and (2) the relationship between self-conception and perceived social and political obligations. I am especially interested in how these relationships play out in religious and educational contexts. While my two current book projects center public education, I have various articles about religion and, ideally, a future book project will bring together my interests in religion and schools, perhaps through a study of secularism in public education.

Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools. Oxford University Press, 2021.