The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Timothy J. Nelson

Lecturer on Sociology and Social Policy (KSG)

Biographical Note

TIMOTHY NELSON is a Lecturer on Sociology and Social Policy (KSG). His research focuses on low-income, non-custodial fathers, as well as congregational studies and African American religion. His most recent publication is Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Congregation. His next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein). Nelson received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1997 and has also taught at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania

01/11/2008

Courses Offered This Academic Year

Sociology 155
( fall 2007 )
Class and Culture Catalog #8934
Sociology 10
( spring 2008 )
Introduction to Sociology Catalog #4814

A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years

Sociology 139 Religion and Society

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