Youth Ministry Institute

Dr. Amy Adamczyk, Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY. A first-generation college student who grew up on a dairy farm in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, she is the author of Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion (Oxford University Press, 2025), which investigates why attitudes about abortion vary so dramatically across countries and cultures. She is also the coauthor of Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation, a finalist for Christianity Today’s 2022 Book of the Year Award, and the author of Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe, which received the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Adamczyk has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, and her research has been supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Global Religion Research Initiative. Her work has been featured in major media outlets including CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, PBS, The Huffington Post, Journey TV, The Muslim Times, and The Christian Century.