Graduate Student Publications

Manuscripts in Progress

Allen, Marbellla

Allen, Marbella E. “The Pursuit of Having It All: The Work and Family Desires and Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men”

Bratter, Jenifer and Marbella E. Allen. “Biracial or Black?: Racial Differences in Marriage Entry for Black, White, and Black-White adults.”

Bento, Asia

Bento, Asia and Tony N. Brown, “Does Belief in Systemic Racism Correlate with Black Adults’ Self-Employment Status?”

Bento, Asia. “When and Where Residential Racial Segregation Matters for Black Self Employment”

Boyd, Catherine

Boyd, Catherine A., Ashley Kranjac, Rachel T. Kimbro “Neighborhood Context, Gender and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence.”

Boyd, Catherine A. “Student-Teacher Socioeconomic Background, Classroom Composition & Externalizing Problem Behavior.”

Boyd, Catherine A. “Physical Education in Elementary School and Body Mass Index.”

Brewer, Mackenzie

Denny, Justin T., Mackenzie Brewer, and Rachel T. Kimbro. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children’s Food Insecurity: Do Neighborhood Characteristics Contribute to the Risks?”

Brewer, Mackenzie, Rachel T. Kimbro, Justin T. Denney. “Counties of Risk: Assessing Family Resilience and Vulnerability to Food Insecurity.”

Brewer, Mackenzie. “Returning to Work, Breastfeeding and Family Structure: A Portrait of Working Mothers in the U.S.”

Bolger, Dan

Bolger, Daniel, and Pamela J. Prickett. “Physical vs. Mental Health: Disaggregating the Religion-Health Connection Among Racial Minority Congregations.”

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Robert A. Thomson Jr., Sharan Mehta, Daniel Bolger, and Di Di. “Perceptions of Discrimination in Global Science.”

Thomson Jr., Robert A., Daniel Bolger, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “A Tale of Two Populisms: Divergent and Convergent Correlates of Trust in Congress and Corporations.”

Schneider, Rachel, and Daniel Bolger. “How Knowledge is Transmitted and Legitimated in Black Protestant Church Contexts on Science, Health, and Medicine,”

Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Seeing is Achieving: Religion, Embodiment, and Explanations of Racial Inequality in STEM.”

Sanchez-Salazar, Esmeralda

Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez, Sharan Mehta, Esther Chan, “Comparing Confidence in Institutions Among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals.”

Holzman, Brian, Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, Irina Chukhray, “Inequalities in Educational Attainment by English Learner Status: A Case of Leveled Tracking.”

Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez, Robert J. Thomson, Elaine Howard Ecklund “Race, Religion and Education Policy: Examining Differences in Attitudes Toward Educational Spending and Local School Issues.”

Farrell, Allan

Farrell, Allan. “Invalidated and Unimportant?”: Racial Misclassification, Dimensions of Racial Identity and Mental Health”

Brown, Tony, Allan Farrell and Raul Casarez “Discrimination without Discriminators: Why Sociologists Should Study Whites’ Self-Reports of Perpetrating Racial and Ethnic Discrimination”

Allen, Eboni, Jenifer Bratter and Allan Farrell “Racial Identity and Marriage Delays: what experiences of biracial women tell us about Black-White differences in entry to first marriage”

Farrell, Allan and Jenifer Bratter “Now (do) you See Me? How Racial Contestation affects Mental Health of Multiracial Adults”

Culver, Julian

Brown, Tony N., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul Casarez, and Horace Duffy. “Correlates of Racial Apathy: Findings from the 2003 National Study of Youth and Religion”

Rice University, Department of Sociology Master’s Thesis Title: How Consistency in Closeness to God Predicts Psychological Resources and Life Satisfaction: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion.

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman, Jr., Kiana Wilkins, and Lydia Koku. “‘Sellouts, Race Traitors, or Self-Haters?’ The Meaning and Significance of Racial Apathy among black Teenagers.”

Culver, Julian. How Intergroup Contact and Congregation Racial Composition Predicts Youth’s Closeness to God: Findings from 2003 the National Study of Youth and Religion.

Ferguson, Jauhara

Ecklund, Elaine, Jauhara Ferguson, and Sharan Kaur Mehta. (In Progress). “Muslim Scientists’ Perceptions of Inclusion in the Scientific Workplace: A Cross-national Study”

Brown, Tony, Asia Bento, Jauhara Ferguson, Julian Culver, and Kiana Wilkins. (In Progress). “Consistency and Change in Correlates of Black Nationalist Tendencies: Findings from the 2012 Outlook on Life Surveys.”

Howell, Junia

Howell, Junia. “What Type of Racial Segregation Drives Socioeconomic Inequality?” Completed Manuscript.

Howell, Junia. “Beyond Neighborhoods: The Role of City Segregation on Economic Mobility.” Completed Manuscript.

Howell, Junia. “The Truly Advantaged: The Additive Effects of White High SES Neighborhoods on White Wealth Residents” Completed Manuscript.

Howell, Junia. “Measuring Discrimination: Interpretations of Neighborhood Racial Preferences.”

Howell, Junia. “Who’s The Implicit Reference Group?: The Policy Implications of Urban Sociological Methodological Assumptions.”

Smiley, Kevin

Emerson, Michael O. and Kevin T. Smiley. “A Tale of Cities: Houston, Copenhagen, and our Urban Future.” Book manuscript in writing stages

Smiley, Kevin T. “Environmental justice in international comparative perspective: Houston, Copenhagen, Chicago, and environmental inequality.” Dissertation in proposal writing stages

Smiley, Kevin T. “Who denies climate change? Testing conventional assumptions in a green capital and an energy city.” Research article in writing stages.

Smiley, Kevin T. “Does religiously infused violence affect attitudes about immigration? Evidence in the aftermath of violence in Copenhagen.” Research article in early planning stages

Smiley, Kevin T., Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer Bratter, and Sergio Chavez. “Altering Structures.” Introduction to a section of an edited book for undergraduate Race & Ethnicity reader (under contract with Oxford University Press) in writing stages.

Fahey, Lynn

Gorman, Bridget K., Lynn M. Fahey, and Pooja Reddy. “Stress, Heart Failure, and Mortality among Older Men and Women.”

Lynn M. Fahey and Gorman, Bridget K. “Stress, Status, and Health: Gender Differences in Self-Rated Health among Asian and Latino Adults.”

Lynn M. Fahey, Gorman, Bridget K., Laura Freeman Cenegy and Rachel Kimbro. “Gender and the Longarm of Childhood.”

Lynn M. Fahey. “Who Cares: The Mental Health of Older Adults Serving as Caregivers”.

Lynn M. Fahey. “Gender, Egalitarianism, and Unionship among Latino Adults”.

Min, Jie

“Education Attainments of 1.5- and Second-Generation Ethnic Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese: More Insights about Asian American Education Paradox.” (coauthor: Jing Li)

Kim, Min Ju

Gorman, Bridget K. and Min Ju Kim. “Family Cultural Conflict, Support, and Weight-Related Health among Asian Immigrants.”

Gorman, Bridget K. and Min Ju Kim. “Sexual Orientation and Health among Asian Adults.”

Gorman, Quintin

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman Jr., Kiana Wilkins, and Lydia Koku. “Sellouts, Race Traitors, or Self-Haters? The Meaning and Significance of Racial Apathy among Black Teenagers.”

Alvear, Sandra

Alvear, Sandra A. “Bilingual Programs and Middle School Achievement: Does the Benefit of Engaging Students’ Linguistic Cultural Capital Last?”

Alvear, Sandra A. “Graduating English Language Learners: A Story of Cumulative Advantage or Disadvantage?”

Khalsa, Simranjit

Khalsa, Simranjit, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Beyond Gould: The Tenuous Separation of Science and Religion in India,” In progress.

Khalsa, Simranjit and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Understanding Religion: Indian Scientists Definitions of Religion and Spirituality,” In progress.

Mehta, Sharan

Mehta, Sharan Kaur. “Negotiating Race in a Climate of Islamophobia: How Muslim and Sikh Americans Perceive Discrimination and Construct Racialized Religious Identities.”

Mehta, Sharan Kaur. “Being American in a Climate of Islamophobia: How Muslim and Sikh Americans Negotiate their National Identities.”

Sanchez Salazar, Esmeralda, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Esther Chan. “Comparing Confidence in Institutions: Exploring Differences Among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals.”

Mehta, Sharan Kaur, Esther Chan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Fertilizing Morality: The Role of Religion in Shaping Moral Attitudes Around In-Vitro Fertilization.”

Mehta, Sharan Kaur, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Effect of State Context on Moral Attitudes Around In-Vitro Fertilization.”

Mehta, Sharan Kaur, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Jauhara Ferguson. “Religion and Social Media: Moral Attitudes among Muslims and Jews.”

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Jauhara Ferguson, Sharan Kaur Mehta. “Muslim Scientists’ Perceptions of Inclusion in the Scientific Workplace: A Cross-National Study.”

Whitehead, Ellen

Whitehead, Ellen. “Are In-Laws Substituting or Supplementing?: Receipt of Kin Support from Paternal Relatives and the Brokering Role of Fathers.”

Whitehead, Ellen. “Greater Distance, Less Assistance: Race, Kin Support, and Spatial Proximity between Parents and Children.”

Sharp, Gregory, Ellen Whitehead, and Matthew Hall. “Wealth and Homeownership Exit.”

Bratter, Jenifer and Ellen Whitehead. “Single but not Alone: Extended Family Co-Residence, Race, and Poverty among Single Mother Families.”

Manuscripts Under Review

Bancroft, Amanda

Bancroft, Amanda. In progress. “Double Threat and STEM: Intervention Effects on Math Scores for African American and Hispanic Women.” Under review at Social Science Research.

Bancroft, Amanda. “How Do High-Status Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from a Choice District.” Under review at Social Problems.

Bento, Asia

Bento, Asia and James R. Elliott. 2019. “The Racially Unequal Effects of Federal Recovery Aid on Self-Employment”

Brown, Tony, N. Julian Culver, Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman Jr., Kiana Wilkins, Lydia Koku. 2019. “‘Sellouts, Race Traitors, or Self-Haters?’ The Meaning and Significance of Racial Apathy among Black Teenagers"

Brown, Tony, N., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul Casarez, and Horace Duffy III. 2018. “Correlates of Racial Apathy: Findings from the 2003 National Study of Youth and Religion.”

Bento, Asia. 2017. “How Do African American Women Describe and Respond To Their Hypervisibility in Japan and South Korea.”

Boyd, Catherine

Boyd, Catherine A. “When Fathers and Mothers Disagree: Differences in Ratings of Child Wellbeing among Parent Dyads.”

Solazzo, Alexa

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Alexa Solazzo, “Authority in the Face of Moral Ambiguity: human embryonic stem cell research and religious people”

Casarez, Raul

Casarez, Raul S. “This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and American Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants.”

Casarez, Raul S., Allan Farrell, Jenifer L. Bratter, Xiaorui Zhang. “Becoming Asian (American)? Ethnicity and Racialized Assimilation Amongst Asian Americans.”

O’ Connell, Heather, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Raul S. Casarez. “Migration and Exposure to Different Ideas about Race: Clarifying the Link between History and Contemporary Racial Classification among Black-White Households.”

Brown, Tony A., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul S. Casarez, Horace Duffy. “Correlates of Racial Apathy among White Teenagers: Findings from the 2003 National Study of Youth and Religion.”

Bolger, Dan

Bolger, Daniel. “The Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision.” Revise and Resubmit at Social Problems. Bolger, Daniel. “The Collective Construction of Need: Adjudicating Deservingness in Christian Social Service Agencies.” Under Review at The Sociological Quarterly.

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth

Chávez, Sergio and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn. Revise and Resubmit. "Not Just for the Money: Return Migrant Men and Reflections on the Emotion of Migration." Qualitative Sociology.

Sanchez-Salazar, Esmeralda

Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Adriana Garcia, “Challenging Evolution in Public Schools: Race, Religion and Attitudes Toward Teaching Creationism.”

Thomson, Robert J., Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, Elaine Howard Ecklund, “The Very Ivory Tower: Pathways Reproducing Racial-Ethnic Stratification in Science.”

Farrell, Allan

Whitehead, Ellen, Allan Farrell, and Jenifer Bratter. “If you don’t know me by now…: Assessing differences in observed and reported race for fathers in the Fragile Families Survey”

Farrell, Allan. “(In)consistent discrimination: The relationship between racial identity, reflected race, and racial discrimination across contexts”

Ferguson, Jauhara

Ecklund, Elaine, Jauhara Ferguson, Sharan Kaur Mehta. (Submitted; Under Review). “Chan-Malik, Sylvia. 2018. Being Muslim:A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam. New York University Press.” Gender & Society.

Howell, Junia

Howell, Junia and Michael Emerson. “So What ‘Should’ We Use? Evaluating the Impact of Seven Racial Measures on Markers of Social Inequality.” Review and Resubmit.

Howell, Junia. “Neighborhood Effects in Cross-Nation Perspective: A Longitudinal Analysis of Impacts on Intergenerational Mobility in the United States and Germany.”

Howell, Junia, Valerie Lewis and Michael Emerson. “Are We Any More Tolerant?: A Comparison of Racial Neighborhood Preference.”

Howell, Junia and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn. “Neighborhood Racial Biases in 21st Century Housing Appraisals.”

Howell, Junia and James R. Elliot. “The Cumulative Effect of Natural Hazard Exposure on Socioeconomic Inequality.”

Khalsa, Simranjit

Sorrell, Katherine R., Simranjit Khalsa, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Michael O. Emerson. “Immigrant Identities and the Shaping of a Racialized American Self,” revise and resubmit, Socius.

Di, Di, Simranjit Khalsa, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Spirituality among Global Scientists,” revise and resubmit, The Sociological Quarterly.

Mehta, Sharan

Mehta, Sharan Kaur, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Politicization of Science and Religion Among US Scientists.” Under Review at American Sociological Review

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Robert A. Thomson Jr., Sharan Kaur Mehta, Daniel Bolger, and Di Di. “Global Science, Global Discrimination? Perceptions of Discrimination among Scientists in Different National Contexts.” Under Review at Social Problems

Thomson Jr., Robert A, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Doing Gender and Doing Religion as Scientists: A Cross-National Study.” Under Review at Social Science Research

Whitehead, Ellen

Whitehead, Ellen. “Paying for their Stay: Race, Coresiding Arrangements, and Rent Payments among Fragile Families.” Revise and resubmit at Journal of Family Issues.

Whitehead, Ellen. “Heterogeneity in Neighborhood Social Integration: Understanding the Role of Private Support.” Under Review.

Whitehead, Ellen, Allan Farrell, and Jenifer Bratter. “‘If You Don’t Know Me by Now…’: Assessing Race Mismatch through Differences in Race Reports of Fathers in the Fragile Families Survey.”

Zhang, Xiaorui

Casarez Raul, Allan Farrell, Jenifer Bratter, and Xiaorui Zhang. 2019. “Becoming Asian (American)? Ethnicity and Racialized Assimilation Amongst Asian Americans” Proposal under review at The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences ISSUE ON “ASIAN AMERICANS: DIVERSITY AND HETEROGENEITY”

Journal Articles

Bento, Asia

Brown, Tony, N. Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman Jr., Lydia Koku, and Julian Culver. forthcoming. “‘Who Cares?’ Investigating Consistency in Expressions of Racial Apathy among Whites.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, and Asia Bento. 2018. “How Incarceration Influences Native-Born Black Men’s Risk of Obesity.” Ethnicity & Disease 28(2):69-74.

Boyd, Catherine

Boyd, Catherine A., Julie A. Gazmararian, and Winifred W. Thompson. 2013. “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Low-Income Women Considered High Priority for Receiving the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine.” Maternal and Child Health Journal, 17(5): 852-861.

Brewer, Mackenzie

Brewer, Mackenzie, Rachel T. Kimbro, Justin T. Denney, Kristin M. Osiecki, Brady Moffett, and Keila Lopez. 2017. “Does Neighborhood Social and Environmental Context Impact Race/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Asthma?” Health & Place 44:86-93. * Featured in the Houston Chronicle and Houston’s ABC13

Brewer, Mackenzie and Rachel T. Kimbro. 2014. “Neighborhood Context and Immigrant Children’s Physical Activity.” Social Science & Medicine 116:1-9.

Freeman, Laura and Mackenzie Brewer. 2013. “Family Matters: Links Between Family Structure and Early Child Health.” Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk 4(1):1-23. * Recipient of the Walter and Helen Hall Graduate Paper Award, Rice Department of Sociology

Casarez, Raul

2018 Rose, Mary R., Raul S. Casarez, and Carmen M. Gutierrez. “Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies doi:10.1111/jels.12182.

Bolger, Dan

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sharan Mehta, and Daniel Bolger. “A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff.” Forthcoming in Zygon.

Bolger, Daniel, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Selection Versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science.” Sociological Perspectives. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121419835507.

Elliott, James R., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, and Daniel Bolger. “The Successive Nature of Parks: Making and Remaking Unequal Access Over Time.” City & Community 18(1): 109-127.

Bolger, Daniel, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches.” Review of Religious Research 60(1): 49-70.

Bolger, Daniel, Cleve Tinsley IV, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Heaven and Health: Pastoral Perspectives on Faith and Medicine.” Review of Religious Research 60(3): 389–402.

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Chris Scheitle, Jared Peifer, and Daniel Bolger. 2016. “Examining Links between Religion, Evolution Views, and Climate Change Skepticism” Environment and Behavior 49(9): 985-1006.

Di, Di

Forthcoming Di, Di. “Paths to Enlightenment: Constructing Buddhist Identities in Mainland China and the US.” Sociology of Religion. Forthcoming Ecklund, Elaine Howard and Di Di. “Global Spirituality among Scientists,” in Being Spiritual but not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s). Routledge.

2017 Di, Di, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “Creating Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamics World 3:1-15.

2017 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Di Di. “A Catholic Science? Italian Scientists Construct Religious Identity during Religious Shifts.” Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 4(1):94-114.

2017 Lewis, Steven W., Di Di, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. “The Double-Edged Sword: Guanxi and Science Ethics in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China.” Journal of Contemporary China 26(107):726-740.

2016 Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Di Di. “A Gendered Approach to Science Ethics for US and UK Physicists.” Science and Engineering Ethics 23(1):183-201. Quoted in Times Higher Education and Insider Higher Ed.

2016 Johnson, David, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Di Di, and Kirstin Matthews. “Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (Mis)representation of Science.” Public Understanding of Science. Published online at (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662516673501). Quoted in The Independent, ArsTechnica (UK), Science Newsline, and Physics.Org.

2016 Di, Di. “Boundary Formation and Cultural Construction: How do Chinese and Indian Immigrant Converts Understand Religious Identity?” Journal of Religion and Society 18. Published online at (http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/). Winner of Walter and Helen Hall Prize, Department of Sociology, Rice University.

2016 Di, Di, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Steven W. Lewis. “Women’s Underrepresentation in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China.” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 22(4):329-348.

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. Forthcoming. "(Collective) Memory of Racial Violence and the Social Construction of the Hispanic Category among Houston Hispanics." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. *Winner of the Walter and Helen Hall Graduate Paper Award (Rice University)

Emerson, Michael O., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, and Kiara Douds. Forthcoming. "Studying Race and Religion: A Critical Assessment." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth, Esther Chan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2015. “Perceptions of Science Education Among African American and White Evangelicals: A Texas Case Study.” Review of Religious Research 57(1):131-148.

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. 2014. “Middle-Class Mexican Americans, Neighborhood Affect, and Redevelopment in Houston’s Northside Barrio.” City & Community 13(4):381-402.

Samayoa, Erick

Katsiaficas, D., Hernandez, E., Alcantar, C. M., Samayoa, E., Gutierrez, M. N., & Williams, Z. (2018). "We'll Get Through This Together": Collective Contribution in the Lives of Latino Undocumented Undergraduates. TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, 120(12).

Katsiaficas, Dalal; Alcantar, Cynthia M.; Hernandez, Edwin; Samayoa, Erick; Gutierrez, Maria Nava; Texis, Oscar Rodriguez; Williams, Zyshia (2016) “Important theoretical and methodological turning points for understanding contribution with undocumented undergraduates”. Qualitative Psychology, Vol 3(1) 7-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0000043

Sanchez-Salazar, Esmeralda

Sánchez, Esmeralda, Nicholas Vargas, Rebecca Burwell, Jessica Hamar-Martinez, Milagros Peña, and Edwin I. Hernandez. 2016. “Latino Congregations and Youth Educational Expectations.” Sociology of Religion 77(2): 171-92.*

*REPRINTED 2018. In Sociology of Religion: A Reader, Third Edition, edited by Susanne Monahan, William Mirola, and Michael O. Emerson. New York: Routledge.

Culver, Julian

Brown, Tony N., Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman, Jr., Lydia Koku, and Julian Culver. Forthcoming. “‘Who Cares?’ Investigating Consistency in Expressions of Racial Apathy among Whites.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, and Asia Bento. 2018. “How Incarceration Influences Native- Born Black Men’s Risk of Obesity.” Ethnicity & Disease, 28(2):69 - 74.

Culver, Julian and Melinda Lundquist Denton. 2017. “Religious Attachment and the Sense of Life Purpose among Emerging Adults.” Religions, 8(12):274.

Denton, Melinda Lundquist and Julian Culver. 2015. “Family Disruption and Racial Variation in Adolescent Religiosity.” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 76(2):222-239.

Ferguson, Jauhara

Ferguson, Jauhara. 2018. “Radical Narratives of Muslim Male Youth: A Critical Investigation of The Media Rhetoric of Radicalization.” 2017 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal.

Howell, Junia

Timberlake, Jeffrey M., Junia Howell, Amy Baumann Grau, and Rhys H. Williams. “Who ‘They’ Are Matters: Effects of Immigrant Stereotypes on Public Assessments of the Impact of Immigration.” The Sociological Quarterly. 56 (2): 267-299.

Smiley, Kevin

Smiley, Kevin T., Wanda Rushing and Michele Scott. Forthcoming. “Behind a Bicycling Boom: Governance, Cultural Change and Place Character in Memphis, Tennessee.” Urban Studies • Featured in The Atlantic's Citylab and Planetizen

Freeman-Cenegy, Laura

Cenegy, Laura Freeman, Justin T. Denney, and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. 2018. “Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit?” Journal of Marriage and Family 80(1):198–218.

Freeman, Laura and Mackenzie Brewer. 2013. “Family Matters: Links Between Family Structure and Early Child Health.” Journal of Applied Research on Children, 4(1): 6.

Kim, Min Ju

Lim, In Sook and Min Ju Kim. 2019. “Lookism in Korean TV Comedy Programs: Gender, Violence, and the Limits of Institutional Sanctions.” Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 35(1):243-282.

Kim, Min Ju. 2016. “Discrimination against Obese Women and their Weight Loss.” Korean Journal of Social Issues 29(1):93-136.

Lim, In Sook and Min Ju Kim. 2012. “Reproduction of Obesity Stigma in Korean TV Diet Survival Programs.” Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 28(4):1-38.

Oyvaride, Zelma

Oyarvide Tuthill, Zelma, Justin Denney and Bridget K. Gorman. 2018. “Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Men and Women.” Forthcoming in Ethnicity and Health.

Oyarvide Tuthill, Zelma. 2017. “A Demographic Analysis of the Health Care Status of Children from LGBT Households.” Pp. 237-249 in Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21stCentury, edited by M.N. Hoque, B. Pecotte and M.A McGehee. Switzerland: Springer.

Oyarvide Tuthill, Zelma. 2016. “Negotiating Religiosity and Sexual Identity Among Hispanic Lesbian Mothers.” Journal of Homosexuality 63: 1194-1210.

Alvear, Sandra

Alvear, Sandra A. and Ruth N. López Turley. 2016. “Immigration Policies, Youth and their Families.” Pp. 123–144 in Educational Policy and the Socialization of Youth for the 21st Century: Problems, Potential, and Progress, edited by S.L. Nichols. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Alvear, Sandra. 2016. “Introduction.” Pp. 175–177 in Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader, edited by M.O. Emerson, J.L. Bratter, and S. Chavez. New York: Oxford University Press.

Alvear, Sandra A. “Learning More than Language: An Examination of Reading Achievement Among English Language Learners in a Large Urban District.” † Revise and Resubmit, American Educational Research Journal † Subject of EdWeek blog in May 2017.

Khalsa, Simranjit

Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. “Naturally Ambivalent: Religion’s Role in Shaping Environmental Action” Sociology of Religion. doi: 10.1093/socrel/srx043

Khalsa, Simranjit. 2017. “A Faith for All: Boundaries of Religion and Ethnicity among Sikhs in the US” Sociology of Religion 78(3):340-362.

Peifer, Jared, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Political Conservatism, Religion, and Environmental Consumption in the United States” Environmental Politics 25(4):661-689.

Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Gossip as Social Control: Policing Informal Ethical Violations in Scientific Workplaces of India, the US, and the UK” Social Problems 63(4):554-572.

Mehta, Sharan

Forthcoming Ecklund, Elaine Howard, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Daniel Bolger. “A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and A Riff.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

Whitehead, Ellen

Whitehead, Ellen. Forthcoming. “‘Be My Guest’: The Link between Concentrated Poverty, Race, and Family-Level Support.” Journal of Family Issues.

Bratter, Jenifer and Ellen Whitehead. Forthcoming. “The Ties That Bind?: Comparing Kin Support Across Mixed-Race and Monoracial Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family.

Working Papers

Bento, Asia

Brown, Tony, N., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul Casarez, and Horace Duffy III. 2018. “Predictors of Racial Apathy among Emerging Adults” (https://rare.rice.edu/content/predictors-racial-apathy-among-emerging-ad...)

Bento, Asia. 2017. “How Do African American Women Describe and Respond To Their Hypervisibility in Japan and South Korea.” (https://rare.rice.edu/content/african-american-women-describe-and-respon...)

Solazzo, Alexa

Solazzo, Alexa. “Abortion, Law, and the Individual: access in the face of structural constraints” Gorman, Bridget, Alexa Solazzo and Justin Denney. “Sexual Orientation and Utilization of Cancer Screen Services among Women”

Gorman, Bridget, Becky Wade and Alexa Solazzo. “Women Go and Men Stay Home? Gender and the Utilization of Preventive Medical Care among Asian and Latino Adults”

Sanchez-Salazar, Esmeralda

Chukhray, Irina, Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, “Harris County’s College Advising Needs,” In print

Holzman, Brian, Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, Irina Chukhray, “Inequalities in Postsecondary Attainment by English Learner Status: The Role of College-Level Course-Taking,” In progress

Holzman, Brian, Mehreen Gul, Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, “Part II: Labor Market Analyses of the 60×30 Goal, Supply and Demand, and Wages in Houston and Texas,” Houston Longitudinal Study on the Transition to College and Work (HLS), In progress

Smiley, Kevin

Smiley, Kevin T. 2012. “Battles Between Bikes and Businesses: Collective Strategic Action in Memphis, Tennessee.” University of Memphis Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) Repository. Accessible at https://umwa.memphis.edu/etd/

Smiley, Kevin T. 2010. “Henry Hardin Cherry: The Early Period of a Life's Work.” Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 251. Accessible at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/251/

Oyarvide, Zelma

Oyarvide, Zelma. “Parrhesia in the Medical Encounter: Sexual Orientation Disclosure Among Latino Men”

Oyarvide, Zelma and Bridget Gorman “Medical Comfort at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation”

Oyarvide, Zelma and Bridget Gorman. “Assessing the Relationship between Emotional Support and Health among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Men and Women in the BRFSS-SOP”

Mehta, Sharan

Ferguson, Jauhara, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. Forthcoming. “Review of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik,” for Gender & Society.

Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Sharan Mehta. 2017. “Review of Seeking Good Debate: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life by Michael S. Evans,” for Sociology of Religion 78(2):235-236.

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