Wade Clark Roof (1948-2019), by Dusty Hoesly
sorbackend2020-03-18T14:51:22-04:00The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, announces with deep sadness the sudden passing of our colleague Wade Clark Roof on August 24, 2019, in his sleep. Professor Roof, who was J.F. Rowny Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion and Society from 2013, joined the department in 1989 as J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, at that time already a compelling figure in the sociology of religion. Previously, he had been Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Raised in rural South Carolina, he graduated magna cum laude from Wofford College in Spartanburg, went on to Yale Divinity School, where he received a master of divinity degree in […]