Sophie Bjork-James, PhD

Sophie Bjork-James, PhD is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in  Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Honor and Obey: Race, Respectability, and Making the Evangelical Family Sacred, which explores the importance of the family in the white evangelical tradition. Dr. Bjork-James is also an expert on the contemporary white supremacist movement and has studied the online white nationalist movement for over a decade. She has an interest in reproductive politics and is developing a Nashville focused research project on unequal pregnancy outcomes. Her work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Radio 4’s Today programs and in articles in Reuters, USA Today, and Vox.