Bridget Ritz is a sociologist living in South Bend, Indiana. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame (2022), and her M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (2015). Bridget’s work bridges insights from the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism with critical realism, a philosophy of science and social science, and applies these to questions in cultural sociology. Bridget is co-author of Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America (Princeton University Press, 2020). Her articles have been published in the Journal of Classical Sociology, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, the Journal of Critical Realism, and Science Advances.