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Sam Victor

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Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, McGill University

I'm a cultural anthropologist specializing in ethics, values, and religious communities. I use my training as an ethnographer to make sense of situations where people find themselves pulled between conflicting commitments. I've conducted extensive ethnographic research with American evangelicals who resist the polarizing impulses of today's politics. My current work, based in Montreal, Quebec, analyzes how moral values shape economic action in the social innovation sector, namely the transformation of heritage church buildings into community spaces.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Research Fellow, McGill University, Department of Anthropology

Education

  • 2023 
    University of Cambridge, Ph.D. Social Anthropology
  • 2018 
    Université de Montréal, M.Sc. Anthropology

Publications

  • 2024
    Proselytising is not evangelism: epistemic virtue and religious suasion at a church in Nashville, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • 2024
    Au-delà des croyances littéralistes : repenser le croire évangélique d’une perspective socio-épistémologique, RELIER. Revue interdisciplinaire d’études religieuses
  • 2024
    Religious Suasion (special issue), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • 2023
    Wellbeing and Happiness, The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics