Faculty Publications

Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut - a new book by Ghassan Moussawi

Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book is the first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence. From Temple University Press.

"The Fraught Nature of Exceptional Gay Spaces" by Professor Ghassan Moussawi published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Professor Ghassan Moussawi was published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, which focuses on the concept of queering urban studies.

“Recovering the Missing Middle: A Mesocomparative Analysis of Within-Group Inequality” by Tom VanHeuvelen published in the American Journal of Sociology

This study assesses the causes of within-group inequality, or the inequality occurring among workers and households otherwise similar on observed characteristics.

“Terminal Identities: The Racial Classification of Immigrants in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Death Records" by Monica McDermott published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Death certificates are a means of assessing the racial classification of foreign-born Americans that is based neither on a set of formal racial identification criteria nor self-identification. Instead, local informants typically report the race of decedents.

"Historians and the Study of Protest" by Professor Brian Dill and Ronald Aminzade included in Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines, 2nd ed.

In this chapter, we reflect on the distinctive ways in which historians have contributed to our understanding of social movements and collective action. We find that historians interrogate the historical record in at least one of three ways.