Graduate Student Publications

The Department of Sociology is pleased to feature the works and publications of our graduate students.  Below are current publications from our graduate students.  If you would like to contact the author for more information, please see the current graduate student profiles for contact information. For information on showcasing your publication, please contact Leah Elms.

Akram Al-Turk

• Sampling Social Movement Organizations

Joseph Bongiovi

• Public-Private Global Security Assemblages (London 2012)

David Braudt

• Who has the advantage? Race and sex differences in returns to social capital at home and at school

Alyssa Browne

• The incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy in India, 2015

Tania Cabello-Hutt

• Online opportunities and risks for children and adolescents: The role of digital skills, age, gender and parental mediation in Brazil

Sarah Gaby

• Media Use and Participant Inclusion: Influences on Efficacy in Paid Staff Youth Nonprofit Civic Organizations
• The Rise of Inequality: How Social Movements Shape Discursive Fields
• The Civic Engagement Gap(s): Youth Participation and Inequality From 1976 to 2009
• Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook
• Local Protest and Federal Policy: The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• A Social Movement Online Community: Stormfront and the White Nationalist Movement

Iliya Gutin

• In BMI we trust: reframing the body mass index as a measure of health

George Hayward

• Measuring Five Dimensions of Religiosity Across Adolescence
• “Super Bowl Babies”: Do Counties with Super Bowl Winning Teams Experience Increases in Births Nine Months Later?
• Seeing is (Not) Believing: How Viewing Pornography Shapes the Religious Lives of Young Americans

Karam Hwang

• A School Support Intervention and Educational Outcomes Among Orphaned Adolescents: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

Kay Jowers

• Lawyers and Embedded Legal Activity in the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt

• Repeat Migration in the Age of the “Unauthorized Permanent Resident”: A Quantitative Assessment of Migration Intentions Postdeportation
• Sanctuary Policies and City-Level Incidents of Violence, 1990 to 2010
• Providing Sanctuary or Fostering Crime? A Review of the Research on “Sanctuary Cities” and Crime
• The interplay of spatial diffusion and marital assimilation of Mexicans in the United States, 1980–2011

Renee Ryberg

• A School Support Intervention and Educational Outcomes Among Orphaned Adolescents: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya
• Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Anna Rybinska

• “Super Bowl Babies”: Do Counties with Super Bowl Winning Teams Experience Increases in Births Nine Months Later?

Michael Schultz

• Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

• Coming and going: Mexican women guestworkers in the US crab industry
• Struggle as opportunity: Making sense of U.S. migration experiences through Buddhist practice

Katherine Tierney

• Care Transformation Strategies and Approaches of Accountable Care Organizations
• The new frontier of strategic alliances in health care: New partnerships under accountable care organizations

Joshua Wassink

• A longitudinal analysis of resource mobilisation among forced and voluntary return migrants in Mexico
• Uninsured migrants: Health insurance coverage and access to care among Mexican return migrants
• A Dynamic Model of Self-Employment and Socioeconomic Mobility Among Return Migrants: The Case of Urban Mexico
• Implications of Mexican Health Care Reform on the Health Coverage of Nonmigrants and Returning Migrants
• New Skills, New Jobs: Return Migration, Skill Transfers, and Business Formation in Mexico

Batool Zaidi

• The Second Demographic Transition Theory: A Review and Appraisal