Jeff Guhin is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his PhD in sociology from Yale University, and his specialties include education, religion, theory, and culture. His first book is titled Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, December 2020). He has studied in Damascus, Syria, and Mexico City, Mexico, and he holds a Modern Middle East Studies Certificate from Yale University.

He has various published various articles in the sociology of religion, including an insistence that religion is best considered by sociologists as a site rather than as a category. He is also working on a project about secularism in American public schools.