Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan is Ordinary Professor and Director of the Institutional Flourishing Lab at The Catholic University of America. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and HEC Montreal respectively, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame.
His research examines the cultural dimensions of religious, commercial, and scientific institutions, and has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and covered in outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Catholic media. He is author of Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South (Cornell University Press, 2019) and co-author of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019). His work has been funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, the Lilly Endowment, and Burroughs Wellcome Fund. He is also Founder of the media platform Beauty at Work. Dr. Vaidyanathan lives in Maryland with his wife Claire and their six children.
