Lukas Szrot is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bemidji State University. His dissertation research, completed in the spring of 2019, examined how the relationship between religious identity and environmental concern has changed over time in the United States. Szrot has a long-standing interest in how ethical and cultural shifts occur around environmental issues and beliefs about “nature,” but has also written, and conducted research on, the social psychology of belief, the relationship between publics and experts in democracies, and methodological issues in the social sciences. He can be reached at lukas.szrot@bemidjistate.edu