Faculty Publications

Recent Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • Kuluk, Ayda, Troy Allard, Carleen Thompson, James Ogilvie, and Lisa Broidy. 2025. Examining the timing of mental health contacts across female offending trajectories. Health & Justice. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-025-00338-4.
  • Román Alfaro, Andrea. 2025. “Making Sense of Violence through Women’s Experiences: Meaning-making, gendering, and racialization at Peru’s urban margins.” The British Journal of Criminology, online first.
  • Siegrist, Ella and Lisa Broidy. 2025. How Jailed Mothers Envision Future Motherhood in the Context of State Intrusion: Fawn, Flight, or Fight. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Special issue on Gender, Intersectionality, Crime, and Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10439862251341180
  • Tillewein, Heather, and Namrata Shokeen, Presley Powers, Sasha Sandles Palmer, Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez, Kristen Desjarlais. 2024. “LGBTQ+ students and the epidemiology of violence in education.” Sexuality, Gender, & Policy 1-16.
  • Roman Alfaro, Andrea. 2024. “See It Through My Eyes.” Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds, 23(2), 44–55.

Moretti, Chiara and Kristin Kay Barker. 2024. “Suffering without Remedy: The Medically Unexplained Symptoms of Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Long COVID,” Social Sciences, MDPI 13(9): 1-25. Read here.

  • Stacy De Coster and Lisa Broidy. 2024. Current Perspectives on Female Offending. Pp. 32-51 in Sandra L. Browning, Leah C. Butler, and Cheryl Lero Jonson, Eds. Advances in Criminological Theory titled Gender and Crime: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives. Routledge.
  • Lorine Hughes and Lisa Broidy. 2024. Masculinities and respect in the group context of gangs. Pp. 395-412 in David Pyrooz, James Densley, and John Leveroso, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society. Oxford University Press.

Wilson, Eli R. 2024. “Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry.” Social Problemshttps://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae006

  • Rijo Sánchez, Amaury J. 2023. “‘Festival y Protesta’: The Integral Role of Protesting State Violence in Celebrating Puerto Rican Women and Feminists.” Societies 13: 251.
  • Tillewein, Heather, and Namrata Shokeen, Presley Powers, Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez, Sasha Sandles Palmer, Kristen Desjarlais. 2023. “Silencing the Rainbow: Prevalence of LGBTQ+ Students Who Do Not Report Sexual Violence.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(3):1-12. 
  • Flores, Jerry, and Andrea Román Alfaro. 2023. “Building the Settler-Colonial Order: Police (in)action in Responding to Violence Against Indigenous Women in ‘Canada.’” Gender & Society, 37(3): 391-412.

Blackwell, Meredith A., David T. Lardier, Ryeora Choe, and Jessica Goodkind. Forthcoming. "Persistence of the Relationship between Mental Health and Resource Access: A Longitudinal Reciprocal Model in a Diverse Refugee Sample." Journal of Traumatic Stress. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22948

Nepstad, Sharon Erickson. 2023. “Toward an Agency-Centered, Iterative Approach to Social Movement Repression.” Sociology Compasshttps://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13078 

  • Park, Kiwoong and Jinho Kim. 2023. “Longitudinal association between perceived discrimination and sleep problems among young adults in the United States: Tests of moderation by race/ethnicity and educational attainment.” Social Science & Medicine 321: 115773.Read here.

Setter, Davyd and Sharon Erickson Nepstad. 2022. “How Social Movements Influence Public Opinion on Political Violence: Attitude Shifts in the Aftermath of the George Floyd Protests.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 27(4): 429–444.  https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-27-4-429 

Garcia, Nichole M., Nancy López & Verónica N. Vélez. 2023. QuantCrit: An Antiracist Quantitative Approach to Educational Inquiry (editors). London: Routledge. 

Wood, Richard L., Brad Fulton, and Rebecca Sager. 2023. “Strategic Alliances: The Political Efficacy of Religious-Secular Ties,” multi-method article analyzing the conditions under which religious-secular organizational alliances contribute to or undermine organizational efficacy. Accepted for publication in September 2023 in Mobilization: An International Journal of Social Movements 28(3): xx-xx.

Delgaty, Aaron and Eli R. Wilson (equal authorship). 2023. "The Hidden Strains of 'Cool' Jobs." Sociology. DOI: 0.17.7/00380385231172129.

Meiser, Ellen T. and Eli R. Wilson. 2023. “Avoiding, Resisting, Enduring: Responses to Workplace Violence in Professional Kitchens.” Work, Employment and Society: 1-22. DOI: 10.1177/09500170231159845.

Zerai, Assata. (2023).Black Women Academics in the U.S.A. and South Africa Deploying Principles of Feminist Decoloniality as Care (FEMDAC) to Confront Experiences with Microaggressions.Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 37(2): 57- 73. August 2023. DOI 10.1080/10130950.2023.2225950. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10130950.2023.2225950 

Zerai, Assata (2023). “Teaching decolonial research methodology from a student-centered radical Black feminist orientation” in Roshini Pillay and Sharon Moonsamy (editors) Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for Helping Professions in Higher Education. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/64461?language=enhttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004540811

Zerai, Assata and Nancy López (2023). Transforming Faculty Mentoring: A New Vision for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Academic Mentoring Programs” Chapter 12 in (Dave Law and Nora Dominguez, editors) Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia. Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.26079/ff55-d7a0 

Barker, Kristin, Owen Whooley, Erin F. Madden, Emily Ahrend and R. Neil Greene.  2022.  “The Long Tail of COVID and the Tale of Long COVID: Diagnostic Construction and the Management of Ignorance”.  Sociology of Health & Illness. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.unm.edu/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.13599.

Gonzalez, Dulce, Nancy López, Michael Karpman, Karishma Furtado, Genevieve M. Kenney, Marla McDaniel, Claire O'Brien. 2022. Observing Race and Ethnicity through a New Lens: An Exploratory Analysis of Different Approaches to Measuring "Street Race", Urban Institute, December 6, Wellness & Basic Needs Survey (WBNS). Research Brief, Urban Institute, December 6:  https://www.urban.org/research/publication/observing-race-and-ethnicity-through-new-lens

  • Park, Kiwoong and Ning Hsieh. 2023. “A National Study on Religiosity and Suicide Risk by Sexual Orientation.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 64(2): 235-243. Read here.

Christopher J Lyons, Noah Painter-Davis, and Drew Medaris. The Lynching Era and Contemporary Lethal Police Shootings in the SouthRace and Justice. Forthcoming.

  • Román Alfaro, Andrea, and Jerry Flores. 2022. “Unravelling the School Punitive Web: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in the Context of the Gendered Shadow Carceral State. Social Justice. A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, 48(3): 137-157.
  • Flores, Jerry, and Andrea Román Alfaro. 2022. “Pedagogy of Love and Care: Mutual Aid, Solidarity and Liberatory Education across the University.” Curriculum Inquiry, 52(3): 385-396.

Farrell, Allan, Raul S. Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, and Sharan Kaur Mehta. 2022. “Message Received: Asian Americans’ Racial, Ethnic, and National Identity Centrality Before and After the 2016 Election.” Sociological Spectrum 42(2):135-155.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02732173.2022.2081894  

  • Kim, Jinho and Kiwoong Park. 2022. “Longitudinal Evidence on Adolescent Social Network Position and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adulthood.” Social Science & Medicine 301. Read here.

Casarez, Raul S., Allan Farrell, Jenifer L. Bratter, Xiaorui Zhang, and Sharan Kaur Mehta. 2022. “Becoming (Asian) American? Inter-Ethnic Differences in Racial, Ethnic, and American Identities for Asian American Adults.” Ethnicities 22(3):347-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968221092769   

Ray, Ranita. 2022. It Never Seems to Be a Good Time to Talk About Teachers’ Racism Educators are under siege for teaching “CRT.” But curriculum isn’t everything. Slate. March 1st 

Ray, Ranita. 2023. “Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom.” Social Problems 70 (3): 682–697. 

  • 2025 American Sociological Association, Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Award. 

Bratter, Jenifer, Raul Casarez, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Xiaorui Zhang, and Michael Carroll. 2022. “Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing ‘Visible’ Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980 – 2018.” Journal of Child and Family Studies 31:609-622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02244-x  

Wilson, Eli R. 2022. "Privileging Passion: How the Cultural Logic of Work Perpetuates Social Inequality in the Craft Beer Industry." Socius 8: 1-12. DOI: 10.1177/23780231221121064.

Hess, Julia M., C. Estela Vasquez Guzman, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant, Alexis J. Handal, Kimberly R. Huyser, Margarita Galvis, Dulce Medina, Norma Casas, Mario Javier Chavez, Felipe Rodriguez, Annette Carreon Fuentes, and Jessica Goodkind. 2022. “Innovative Participatory Bilingual Data Analysis with Latinx Immigrants: Language, Power, and Transformation.” Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 28(3):389-401. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000481

Christopher J. Lyons, María B. Vélez, and Lauren J. Krivo. 2022. “The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change”. Social ProblemsRead here.

 Wilson Eli R. 2022. “'It Could Never Be About Just Beer': Race, Gender, and Marked Professional Identity in Craft Beer.” Journal of Professions and Organization 9(2): 232-245.

Ray, Ranita. 2022. “School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom." Gender & Society 36(1): 88-111.

  • 2023 American Sociological Association, The Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender’s Distinguished Article Award. 
  • 2023 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award. 
  • 2023 American Sociological Association, The Section on Race, Gender, and Class’s Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award. Honorable Mention.

Mehta, Sharan Kaur, Rachel C. Schneider, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2022. “‘God Sees No Color’ So Why Should I? How White Christians Produce Divinized Colorblindness.” Sociological Inquiry 92(2):623-646. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12476  

Nepstad, Sharon Erickson. 2021. “Religious Support for Civil Resistance Campaigns: When and How Does it Contribute to Regime Change?” Socius 7: 1-14. doi:10.1177/23780231211054997

Bratter, Jenifer, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Raul S. Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, and Michael Carroll. 2022. “‘There’s something very wrong with the system in this country’: Multiracial Organizations and Their Responses to Racial Marginalization.” Social Sciences 11(5):226. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050226 

Barker, Kristin, Alexis M. Kenney and R. Neil Greene. 2021. “Wrong versus Right(eous): Online Reader Comments as Scientific Boundary-Work.” Sociological Forum 36(N3).

Chan, Esther, and Sharan Kaur Mehta. 2022. “Fertilizing Morality: How Religiosity and Orientations Towards Science Shape the Morality, Immorality, and Amorality of Reproductive Technologies.” Public Understanding of Science 31(4):376-393.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F09636625211035925