Rachel C. Schneider is Director of the Boniuk Institute’s Religion and Public Life Center (RPLC) at Rice University. Additionally, Schneider serves as the Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Boniuk Institute and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Religion at Rice University.

Broadly, Schneider’s research focuses on how religion can undergird systems of inequality, such as racial and gender inequality, but also how religion and spirituality can shape ethical and political practices and inspire social change.

Working at the intersection of the humanities and the social sciences, Schneider has published research articles on topics such as religion and race; religion in the workplace; religion, health, and science; and religious responses to poverty and inequality in the United States and South Africa. She is also the co-editor of a volume examining millennials and religious change.

Schneider’s work has been featured in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religions, Journal of Religion in Africa, Journal of Religious Ethics, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Socius, The Immanent Frame, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, Syndicate, and Marginalia Review of Books. She is also co-host with Elaine Howard Ecklund of the RPLC podcast Religion Unmuted, which explores how religion is lived in the world around us.

To learn more about Schneider's work, click here for her curriculum vitae.