J.N. Redman

Cultural Sociology for an Uncertain World

J.N. Redman, PhD

Welcome to my website! I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. I am an ethnographer, historical sociologist, and social theorist specializing in cultural and economic sociology, social movements, and the sociology of knowledge and technology. 

 

I am currently writing my first book, A Rational Apocalypse: Under-certainty, Risk, and Preparedness, based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork with doomsday preppers.

 

"It is a world of change in which we live, and a world of uncertainty. We live only by knowing something about the future; while the problems of life… arise from the fact that we know so little."

Frank Knight, 1921

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