Rhys H. Williams is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. His books include Religion & Progressive Activism (New York University Press 2017; w/ T. N. Fuist and R. Braunstein), The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City (NYU Press, 2017, w/ J. Barron), and the forthcoming Civil Religion Turns 50: Religion and the American Nation in the 21st Century (NYU Press). His current research efforts focus on the politics of immigration in the U.S., and connections to religion, race, and national identity.