Mary L. Gautier, Ph.D. (Board Chair)

Mary L. Gautier has a Ph.D. in sociology from Louisiana State University. Before coming to CARA in 1998, Mary taught sociology at Louisiana State University and at Texas Christian University and served as a lay pastoral associate at St. George Parish in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for six years. At CARA, Mary specialized in Catholic demographic trends in the United States, managed CARA databases on Church information, and conducted demographic projects and computer-aided mapping. She also edits The CARA Report, a quarterly research publication, and other CARA publications. She has co-authored more than a dozen books on Catholics and Catholicism. She has been an ASEC Board Member since 2000.