Selected Authored and Co-Authored Faculty Publications
The faculty in our department are outstanding teachers with a primary commitment to student learning. At the same time, they are active and involved researchers and scholars. In short, we are a community of teacher-scholars. The list of publications below illustrates the range of scholarly interests among the faculty in all three department concentrations.
Sport in a Changing World, Paradigm Publishers.
“Strain Theory: A Preliminary Test of Broidy and Agnew’s Gender/GST Hypotheses,” Justice Quarterly.
“From the Doctor’s Workshop to the Iron Cage?: Evolving Modes of Physician Control in the U.S.,” Social Science and Medicine.
Unspeakable Acts: Why Men Sexually Abuse Children, New York University Press.
“Self Initiated Status Transfer: A Theory of Status Gain and Status Loss,” Small Group Research.
“Human Rights and the Triumph of the Individual in World Culture,” Cultural Sociology.
“Corporeal Labor at the Virtual Library: Information, Transparency and Inequality at the Library of Congress,” Journal of American Studies.
“Divergent and Similar Experiences of ‘Gating’ in South Africa: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town,” Urban Forum.
“Social Determinants of Adolescent Fatherhood,” Sociological Analysis.
“Gender, Sport, and Aggressive Behavior Outside Sport,” Journal of Sport & Social Issues.
Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care, University of Chicago Press.
“Damn, Yo – Who’s That Girl?: An Ethnographic Analysis of Masculinity in Drug Robberies,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future, Berghahn Books.
“Globalization and South Korea’s Middle Class: A Review Essay,” Anthropology of Work Review.
“Working Hard or Hardly Working: Sources of Legitimation for High School Students’ Academic Engagement,” Sociological Focus.
“Unraveling Bias in Arrest Decisions: The Role of Juvenile Offender Type-Scripts,” Justice Quarterly.
Rights and Ratios? Evaluating the Relationship between Social Rights and Immigration,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
“Hot Courses in Cultural Anthropology,” Anthropology News.
“Adolescent Polydrug Use and Violence in the United States,” International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health.
“Social Structure and the Duration of Acts,” Social Psychology Quarterly.
“Confronting the Social Context of the Classroom: Media Events, Shared Cultural Experience, and Student Response,” Teaching Sociology.
“Bisexuals at Midlife: Commitment, Salience, and Identity,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
“Studying Sport from a Social Network Approach,” in Theory,Sport and Society.
“Sample Selection Bias in Analyses of the Political Democracy-Income Inequality Relationship,” Social Forces.
“The Misalignment of Institutional ‘Pillars’: Consequences for the U.S. Health Care Field,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
“The Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panic: Teenagers, Heroin, and Media in Plano, Texas,” in Journeys, Experiments, Innovations: New Directions in Media Anthropology.
“Color Code,” Brain Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.
“Generalizing General Strain Theory: An Examination of an Offending Population,” Justice Quarterly.
“Sail On! Sail On!: Anthropology, Science Fiction, and the Enticing Future,” Science Fiction Studies.
“Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
“Do Women Engage in Less Task Behavior than Men?” Sociological Perspectives.
Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality, Oxford University Press.
“Sport and Disability,” in Handbook of Sport Studies.
“Social Disorganization,” Encyclopedia of Social Problems.
“Drug Treatment for Juvenile Offenders: Some Good and Bad News,” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Agent Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGI Global.
Safe Schools Indicator Study. U.S. Department of Education.
“Access to Mediated Emergency Messages: Differences in Crisis Knowledge Across Age, Race, and Socioeconomic Status,” In Social Justice and Hurricane Katrina.
“Principles of Visual Anthropology,” Visual Anthropology Review.
“Cognitive Balance Theory,” in Encyclopedia of Sociology.
“Colonies on the Moon/Cyborgs on the Earth: Evolution and Emergence in Anthropological Futures,” International Journal of the Humanities.
“Acute Care,” in Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition.
“Race Differences in Congregational Social Service Activity,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
“John Marshall’s Kalahari Family,” American Anthropologist.
“Do Bad Boys Really Get the Girls?: Delinquency as a Cause and Consequence of Dating Behavior Among Adolescents,” Justice Quarterly.
“Scientifically Valid and Artistically True: Chad Oliver, Anthropology and Anthropological Science Fiction,” Science Fiction Studies.
“Globalization,” in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective.
“Gated Communities,” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture.
“Women and Current U.S. Immigration Policies,” Fact Sheet for Sociologists for Women in Society Network News.
Delinquency, Schools, and the Social Bond, LFB Publishing.
“No Anthropologist Aboard the Enterprise: Science Fiction and the Future in the Anthropology Classroom,” Anthropology & Education Quarterly.
“Biosecurity and Secrecy Policy: Problems, Theory, and a Call for Executive Action,” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy.
Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI, Citadel Press.
“Turning Identity into Form: The Cause and Consequence for Kaiser Permanente of Becoming an HMO,” In Research in the Sociology of Organizations: The Sociology of Entrepreneurship.
“Race, Space and Place in Suburban Durban: An Ethnographic Assessment of Gated Community Environments and Residents,” GeoJournal.
“Are Congregations Constrained by Government?” Empirical Results from the National Congregations Study,” Journal of Church & State.
“Conflict Resolution and the Public Airwaves: Radio Talk Show Hosts as Third Parties in Social Conflict,” Radio Studies Journal.
“Facilitated Communication: Rejected in Science and Accepted in Court, the Use of FC Evidence Under Frye and Daubert,” Behavioral Sciences & the Law.
Record Store. Ethnographic Film Screened at Sixth Annual International Festival of Visual Culture (Joensuu, Finland); The Festival of Ethnological Film (Belgrade, Serbia); Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival (Manchester, England); Festival of Alternative Culture (Estonia); Philadelphia International Film Festival; American Anthropological Association Film Festival (San Francisco); distributed by Berkeley Media.
Instructors Manual for Ethics in Crime and Justice: Dilemmas and Decisions (Fourth Edition). Thomson Learning Publishers.
“Recovery and Identification of Civilian Victims of War in Croatia,” Cultural Resource Management.
“Rondas Campesinas of Peru,” in Zones of Peace.
“Contemporary Tibetan Exile Filmmakers,” Forthcoming in Modern Tibetan Culture, Proceedings of the 11th Internationals Association for Tibetan Studies.
“Planning and Social Diversity: Residential Segregation in American New Towns,” Urban Studies.
“Balancing National Security and Open Science: A Proposal for Due Process Vetting,” Yale Journal of Law & Technology.
“Perimortem Processing of Human Remains Among the Great Basin Fremont,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
“Rules of Rebellion: Slamdancing, Moshing, and the American Alternative Scene,” Popular Music.