List of Departmental Advising, Committee Service, and Outreach Activities 
Letter from Honors Director, Angela Hattery, regarding a presentation on research to honors students (Fall 2006)
Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee Report written with Ken Bechtel (2006)
Flier from Gerardo Marti event organized for the department
Text of talk given as Wake Forest Campus Day Sociology Department representative (2006)
List of University Advising, Committee Service, and Outreach Activities
Without question, Robert Bellah has been the single greatest influence in my development as a sociologist. Bellah’s influence was not only on the substance of my sociological interests, but also on my approach to doing sociology. The “public sociology” that the UC-Berkeley sociology department actively promotes today was already evident back in my day, with Bellah playing a leading role. I do not imagine that I have accomplished anything like Bellah in my own work to date, but I have always tried to follow him in reaching beyond the walls of disciplinary sociology and speaking to other “publics”: education and ethnic studies scholars, political scientists, and theologians inside the academy; Catholic intellectuals, political activists, and individuals working the religious education trenches outside the academy. The materials in this section reflect my effort to do “public sociology” by writing for broader publics and speaking to the mass media whenever asked.
WRITING FOR BROADER PUBLICS
Real Stories of Christian Initiation: Lessons for and from the RCIA (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006) (Liturgical Press book website)
David Yamane (2003), “Review of The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith by Alan Wolfe,” Commonweal (7 November):36-38.
David Yamane (2003), “Non-Hispanic Catholics in the 2004 Election,” Religion in the News 6 (Fall 2003, Supplement): 5, 17. (Published by the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, CT.)
David Yamane (2003), “The Bishops and Politics,” Commonweal (23 May): 17-20.
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MASS MEDIA APPEARANCES (2005-PRESENT)
On Catholic conversion in U.S. Catholic (December 2006)
On Catholic seminarians in the Allentown Morning Call (22 October 2006)
On The Da Vinci Code in the Winston-Salem Journal (19 May 2006)
On scientists and spirituality in Science and Theology News (November 2005)
On married and women priests, WLAD radio, Danbury, Connecticut (3 May 2005)
On papal succession on the Morning Mess, WEKZ radio, Green County, Wisconsin (2 May 2005)
On priestly celibacy on the Tony Booth Show, WCHV radio, Charlottesville, Virginia (26 April 2005)
On the implications of the priest shortage in the Washington Post (10 April 2005)
On the death of Pope John Paul II in the Winston-Salem Journal (2 April 2005)
On religion in public life in the Anderson Independent Mail (26 February 2005)
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MASS MEDIA APPEARANCES (PRE-2005)
On religion and voting in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (10 September 2004)
On religion in the 2004 election on the Ben Merens show, Wisconsin Public Radio (24 December 2003)
On religion and voting in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (17 September 2003)
On the priest shortage for an AP wire story (14 May 2003)
On the priest sexual abuse scandal in the Boston Herald (10 March 2003)
On religious lobbying in the Austin American-Statesman (3 February 2003)
On the Catholic priesthood in the Allentown Morning Call (21 October 2002)
On the future of the priesthood in Notre Dame Magazine (Autumn 2002)
On priestly celibacy in the Detroit Free Press (20 April 2002)
On Title IX in the South Bend Tribune (25 March 2001)
On Christian initiation in the National Catholic Reporter (10 November 2000)
On charismatic churches in the Virginian-Pilot (27 September 1999)
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