My research focuses on the use and evolution of language, especially in religious contexts. I am passionate about statistics, data visualization, philosophy of science, and causal inference. My work has appeared in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Poetics, and The American Sociologist, among other outlets.
Publications
Publications
- Bernau, John A. [In Press]. "Is Reality Still Socially Constructed?" The American Sociologist x(x): x-xx. [PDF]
- Bernau, John A. 2024. "Review of Sociology of Death and the American Indian." Contemporary Sociology 53(3): 242-243. [PDF]
- Bernau, John A. 2022. "The Institutionalization of Kübler-Ross's Five-Stage Model of Death and Dying." Omega – Journal of Death and Dying 90(1): 120-142.
- Idler, Ellen L., John A. Bernau, and Dimitrios Zaras. 2022 "Narratives and Counter-Narratives in Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Computational Text Analysis." PLoS ONE 17(2): e0262905.
- Browne, Irene, John A. Bernau, Katharine M. Tatum, and Jieyu Jiao. 2021. "Immigration Coverage in the Black Press and the General Audience Press: What Can Mixed Methods Reveal about Race and Immigration?" The Sociological Quarterly 63(4): 688–710.
- Xu, Bin and John A. Bernau. 2021. "The Sympathetic Leviathan: Modern States' Cultural Response to Disasters." Poetics 93(A): 1-11.
- Bernau, John A. 2021. "From Christ to Compassion: The Changing Language of Pastoral Care." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 60(2): 362–381.
- Semenza, Daniel Charles and John A. Bernau. 2020. "Information-seeking in the Wake of Tragedy: An Examination of Public Response to Mass Shootings Using Google Search Data." Sociological Perspectives 65(1): 216-233.
- Bernau, John A. 2018. "Text Analysis with JSTOR Archives." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 4: 1-2.
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