Faculty Publications

PhD candidate, Heba M Khalil, recently published "Revolution in Parallel Times: An Egyptian Village’s Lived Revolution." Abstract: "This paper explores revolutionary and rural politics through the case study of Al-Tahseen, a small village in the Egyptian Delta that witnessed an...

Professor, Matthew Soener, recently published "Did the ‘Real’ Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Contours of Financialisation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector" Abstract: "The ‘financialisation’ of the economy is considered a key phenomenon of our time, but we lack large-scale empirical...

PhD candidate Hany Zayed was recently published in the journal Theory, Culture, and Society. Abstract: "The causes and consequences of revolutionary change have long been the subject of scholarly debate. Through a...

Graduate student Jessennya Hernandez was recently published in the journal Humanity & Society. Abstract: This paper explores the grounded realities of how foster youth attempt to improve their own lives by navigating the foster care system. From 2014 to 2016 in southern California, I...

Dr. Tim F. Liao was recently published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (an American Sociological Association journal). Abstract: Using social comparison theory, I investigate the relation between experienced happiness and income inequality. In the analysis, I study...

Professor Asef Bayat recently had a book published by the University of California Press. For full book details click here. Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking...

Professor Jose Atiles' article was published in the State Crime Journal. Click here for the full text. Abstract: The COVID-19 global pandemic brings about...

Professor Tim Liao's article "Using Sequence Analysis to Quantify How Strongly Life Courses Are Linked" was published in Sociological Science January 19, 2021. To read more, click here.

Tim F. Liao, PhD and Fernando De Maio, PhD co-authored the article "Association of Social and Economic Inequality with Coronavirus Disease 19 Incidence and Mortality Across US Counties". The article was published in JAMA Network Open on January 20, 2021. To read more, click...

Professor Zsuzsa Gille and Hilary E. Kahn, PhD co-authored the article "Un-Framing and Re-Framing the Global: An Introduction" which appears in New Global Studies Volume 14: Issue 3. To read more, click here.

PhD Candidate, Po-Chia Zeng's article "Framing the Material Global: The Grounded Politics of HIV Testing Scale-Up" has been published in New Global Studies Volume 14: Issue 3. To read more, click here.

Professor Zsuzsa Gille's article “Emptiness, Vacancy and Waste” has been published in Cultural Anthropology. To read, click here.

PhD student Nehal Elmeligy's paper "Making a Scene: Young Women's Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo" has been published by the Journal of Resistance Studies.   

PhD student Po-Chia Tseng's article "Fear of Disconnecting: Global Health Imaginations and the Transformations of the Taiwanese State" has been published by De...

Professor Cynthia Buckley's co-authored research article "Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield" has been published by T&F Online.

PhD student Asha Sawhney has co-authored Dictators and civilizational thinking in Iran: From the Great Civilization to Islamic Civilization for the Middle East...

Doctoral Student Meggan Lee's co-authored paper “If you aren’t White, Asian or Indian, you aren’t an engineer”: racial microaggressions in STEM education has been published in the International Journal of STEM...

Professor and Head Tim Liao's co-authored paper "Comparing Groups of Life-Course Sequences Using the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Likelihood-Ratio Test" has been published in Sociological Methodology.

Professor Ilana Redstone's co-authored book "Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education" has been published by the Oxford...

Shwetha Delanthamajalu's paper “Nation, Gender and the Killing of an Indian Journalist” was published in Gender, Place & Culture in 2019.

Brian O'Neill's paper "The World Ecology of Desalination: From Cold War Positioning to Financialization in the Capitalocene" has been published in the Journal of World-...

Professor Ghassan Moussawi's co-authored article titled "A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness" has been published in the Sociological Forum. To read, click here.

Professor Asef Bayat Co-Authors "Global Middle East Into the Twenty-First Century" To access the book, click here.

PhD Candidate, Alishia Alexander, coauthors chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health. Chapter titled "Black U.S. Sexual and Gender Minority...

Brian F. O’Neill & Matthew Jerome Schneider The American public is split on support for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This study seeks to better understand fracking attitudes by predicting support via economic, environmental, and public health concern. We find support for...