C. Lynn Carr

Biography

C. Lynn Carr is a sociologist of contemporary identification in the U.S. who studies the interplay between the individual and the social, predominantly employing qualitative methods. Dr. Carr’s early scholarship focused on issues of gender and sexual identification, particularly on the intersection of gender and sexuality, tomboyism (and female masculinity more generally), and bisexuality. Published work can be found in Gender & Society, Symbolic Interaction, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, and Journal of Bisexuality. Dr. Carr’s more recent scholarship investigates issues of religious identification in the U.S. The bulk of this work involves a mixed-methodological project on Afro-Cuban Lukumi (Santería) and Ifa that culminated in a book, A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States(Rutgers University Press, 2016). The book explores timely issues concerning religious identification in globalizing, multicultural contemporary U.S., including insider/outsider status, belonging, deviance, ethnic diversification, and faith. Based on the same work, she has also published an article in Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, and is working on two others.

Research Interest

Gender, sexuality, religion, deviance and conformity, American society, social inequalities, and qualitative methods