His research uses the empirical study of schools and religions to highlight ongoing questions in social theory, especially regarding the nature of authority and the problems of moral decision-making. His dissertation project, which will be a book forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is a comparative study of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools. He is also working on two additional projects, the first a study of morality and citizenship in American public high schools and the second a comparative study of moral correction in fourth grade classrooms around the world.