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816 Unique But Not Different
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Meagan Rainock (PhD, Sociology, Vanderbilt University) is a postdoctoral fellow in a joint
appointment split between the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt and
the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Fisk University. As a sociologist, she studies the
identities, obstacles, and experiences of minorities as they navigate social institutions, and has
published work in the areas of religion, education, criminal justice, and mental health. She
currently lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.
Shinji Takagi, a retired economist, continues his research in economics and now also in
Mormon studies. Author or coauthor of nearly 200 publications in economics, he has
more than a dozen publications in Mormon and biblical studies; he currently serves as an
Editorial Advisory Board member of the Mormon Studies Review. His 2016 book, The
Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901–1968, received the 2017 Best International
Book Award from the Mormon History Association. Since 2020, he has been dividing his
time between Ashburn, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. where he held his last full-time
job, and Fukuoka, Japan, to look after his 96-year-old mother.
The post 816 Unique But Not Different appeared first on The Cultural Hall Podcast.
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Manage episode 423175695 series 2465894
Meagan Rainock (PhD, Sociology, Vanderbilt University) is a postdoctoral fellow in a joint
appointment split between the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt and
the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Fisk University. As a sociologist, she studies the
identities, obstacles, and experiences of minorities as they navigate social institutions, and has
published work in the areas of religion, education, criminal justice, and mental health. She
currently lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.
Shinji Takagi, a retired economist, continues his research in economics and now also in
Mormon studies. Author or coauthor of nearly 200 publications in economics, he has
more than a dozen publications in Mormon and biblical studies; he currently serves as an
Editorial Advisory Board member of the Mormon Studies Review. His 2016 book, The
Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901–1968, received the 2017 Best International
Book Award from the Mormon History Association. Since 2020, he has been dividing his
time between Ashburn, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. where he held his last full-time
job, and Fukuoka, Japan, to look after his 96-year-old mother.
The post 816 Unique But Not Different appeared first on The Cultural Hall Podcast.
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