Casey Clevenger is a qualitative researcher and organizational ethnographer who studies inequalities related to race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender.
She is the author of Unequal Partners: In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood (University of Chicago Press) and “Constructing Spiritual Motherhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo” (Gender & Society), which focus on the ways gender, race, economic inequality, and colonial history are negotiated within religious organizations. Unequal Partners received honorable mention for the American Sociological Association 2021 Sociology of Religion Distinguished Book Award.
In addition to her work on transnational women’s organizations and global Catholicism, Clevenger has worked as a researcher for the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and Rush University to evaluate the education and training of hospital chaplains. Findings from these studies are published in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, and Pastoral Psychology.
Casey holds a PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University, a Master of Arts in Public Policy with a Concentration in Women’s Studies from George Washington University, and a BA in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle with her husband and three children.