David Yamane

David Yamane

Professor of Sociology | Wake Forest University

For the first 20 years of his academic career, David Yamane specialized in the sociology of religion. He authored, co-authored, or edited six books and two major scholarly journals. Since 2011, Yamane has studied guns, especially the new self-defense oriented core of American gun culture that Michael Bane calls Gun Culture 2.0. Among his publications in this area is a short history of concealed carry in the U.S., Concealed Carry Revolution: Liberalizing the Right to Bear Arms in America, a review essay on “The Sociology of US Gun Culture,” and most recently, “Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence.”

As he continues to work on a book combining his personal experiences and sociological observations of Gun Culture 2.0, Professor Yamane shares his thoughts on two blogs, gunculture2point0.com and guncurious.com, and on Twitter at @davidyamane and @gunculture2pt0. In 2022, he launched a YouTube channel, “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane,” on which he posts weekly short videos about issues related to his scholarship.