Stephen Cherry, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology,
College of Human Sciences and Humanities
Contact number: 281-283-3434
Email: cherry@uhcl.edu
Office: B2233
Biography
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Stephen M. Cherry, Ph.D., earned his bachelor’s
degree in history from the University of Houston, his master’s degree in sociology
from University of Houston-Clear Lake, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of Texas at Austin.
His research interests include immigration, religion, Asian Americans, and civic life
with a particular focus on Filipino American Catholics post-1965. He is the author
of Faith, Family, and Filipino American Community Life (Rutgers University Press 2013),
Importing Care, Faithful Service (Rutgers University Press 2023) and the co-editor
of Religious Movements Across Borders (Ashgate 2014). In 2006 he received the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion Distinguished Article Award.