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

• Sociogenomics in the 21st century: An introduction to the history and potential of genetically informed social science
• Polygenic Scores (PGSs) in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)-Release 1
• Who has the advantage? Race and sex differences in returns to social capital at home and at school
• Cultural Antecedents to Community: An Evaluation of Community Experience in the United States, Thailand, and Vietnam
• Examining the Effects of Family and School Social Capital on Delinquent Behavior
• Sector Choice: How Fair Trade Entrepreneurs Choose Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Forms

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

Reed DeAngelis

• Aspiration Strain and Mental Health: The Education-Contingent Role of Religion

Alanna Gillis

• Reconceptualizing Participation Grading as Skill Building

Iliya Gutin

• Essential(ist) medicine: promoting social explanations for racial variation in biomedical research
• In BMI we trust: reframing the body mass index as a measure of health

Samuel Fishman

• Smoking and Variation in the Hispanic Paradox: A Comparison of Low Birthweight Across 33 US States
• Maternal Age and Offspring’s Educational Attainment

George Hayward

• The Increasing Diversity and Complexity of Family Structures for Adolescents
• 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

Ahsan Kamal

• Ideology and Threat Assessment: Law Enforcement Evaluation of Muslim and Right-Wing Extremism

María Inés Martínez Echagüe

• Feminismo y deseo

Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt

• Family Matters: Claiming Citizenship Rights across the U.S.-Mexico Migratory System
• The Politics of Immigrant Rights: Between Geography and Transnational Interventions
• 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

David Rigby

• The Racial Position of European Immigrants 1883-1941: Evidence from Lynching in the Midwest

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

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

Batool Zaidi

• The Second Demographic Transition Theory: A Review and Appraisal