Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion and at Notre Dame University's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her books include Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies and Dynamics (2015) and Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the Late Twentieth Century (2011). Both of these books, published by Oxford University Press, won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. Her other books include Catholic Social Activism: Progressive Movements in the United States (2019); Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (2008); and Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Biography in the Central America Solidarity Movement (Oxford, 2004).
