Wayne Luther Thompson, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology at Carthage College and adjunct professor at Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor. His doctorate is from University of Connecticut (1991). Professor Thompson’s research interests and publications center around congregations, clergy studies, suicide and religion, and human responses to climate change. He also conducts poverty simulations for academic and community based organizations. He is President of the Wisconsin Sociological Association (2024-2025).