Anthony Albanese
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Professional Bio
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department with a graduate minor in social thought at Pennsylvania State University. Drawing on insights from cultural sociology, I study populist politics, intergroup relations, and the political dimensions of religiosity. I am especially interested in how symbolic disparagement, threat, and resentment affect processes of meaning-making in political and religious contexts. My current projects focus on the United States and Germany. I am also interested in classical theory, contemporary theory, and the history of sociology.
My research has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Midwest Sociological Society. My dissertation is supported by grants awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, as well as by Penn State’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Albanese, Anthony, Elise Wolff, and Alan Sica. 2023. “Forgetting the Founders? The Uses of Classical Theory Today.” Society 60(5): 722-732.
Kurpiel, Allison and Anthony Albanese. 2023. “The Noncitizen Penalty in U.S. Federal Courts: Differences in Punishment by Region of Citizenship.” Sociological Perspectives. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214231180482
Albanese, Anthony. 2023. “Perceived Threat, Reactive Identification, and Religious Change: Right-Wing Secularization in Germany, 1999-2017.” Religions 14(5): 648.
Albanese, Anthony. 2023. “The Future of Historical Consciousness in Sociology.” The American Sociologist 54(1): 147-75.
Book Chapters
Fuchs, Martin. Translated by Anthony Albanese. 2022. “World Religions, World Attitudes, and Civilizations: Max Weber’s Comparative Sociology of Religion and the Analysis of Indian Religiosity.” The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber, edited by Alan Sica. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group.
Book Reviews
Albanese, Anthony. 2022. Review of Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno. Critical Sociology 48(3): 538-539.
Selected Awards and Grants
2024 Alan Booth Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Work ($1,200), Pennsylvania State University
2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought Section
2024 Research in Democracy Support Grant ($2,100), The McCourtney Institute for Democracy
2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention), Midwest Sociological Society ($100)
2023 Dissertation Support Grant ($480), Office of Research and Graduate Studies at Pennsylvania State University
2022 Best Graduate Student Paper Award ($500), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
2022 Best Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention), ASA Sociology of Religion Section
Research Interests by Concentration
Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Religion, Xenophobia, Culture, History of Sociology
