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Mohammed Bamyeh

Books

Of Death and Dominion: The Existential Foundations of Governance (Northwestern            University Press, 2007).

Articles

“Hermeneutics Against Instrumental Reason: National and Post-national Islam in the             Twentieth Century.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, Spring 2008.

“Islamic civilizations.” Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. UNESCO, 2007.

“The Palestinian Diaspora.” In Hazel Smith and Paul Stares, ed., Diasporas in Conflict,             Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2007.

“Fluid Solidarities: Affiliations Beyond the Nation.” In James Goodman and Paul James,         eds., Nationalism and Globalism, New York: Routledge, 2007.

 

Kathleen Blee

Journal Articles

"Voyeurism, Ethics, and the Lure of the Extraordinary: Lessons from Studying America's Underground "Social Thought and Research", Vol. 28, pp. 3-22.

Book Chapters

“The Space of Racial Hate.”  Hate Crimes.  Barbara Perry (ed.) New York: Praeger.

“The Hidden Weight of the Past: Paths and Micro-History in the Study of Social Movements,” in John Walton, Chris DeCorse; and James Brooks (eds.), Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory.  Sante Fe: School of Americas Research (SAR) Press, in press.

"White Supremacism as Deviance" in Erich Goode and Angus Vail (eds), Extreme Deviance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Lisa Brush

Articles

Lorraine Higgins and Lisa D. Brush. "Personal experience narrative and public debate: Writing the wrongs of welfare." College Composition and Communication. Vol. 57, no.4: 694-729.

Book Chapters

"Safety and self-sufficiency: Rhetoric and reality in the lives of welfare recipients." Pp. 183-192 in Keith Kilty and Elizabeth Segal (eds.), The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press).

 

Deborah Gould

2008 (December). “ACT UP.” In Jodi O’Brien and Eve Shapiro, eds., Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference.

2008 (September). “The Shame of Gay Pride in Early AIDS Activism.” In Valerie Traub and David Halperin, eds., Gay Shame. University of Chicago Press.

 

Akiko Hashimoto

Book

Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan. Edited with John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008 forthcoming.

Articles

“Blondie, Sazae, and their storied successors: Japanese families in newspaper comics,” in Imagined Families, Lived Families, edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008 forthcoming

“The Changing Japanese Family” with John Traphagan in Imagined Families, Lived Families, edited by Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008 forthcoming.

“National and Cultural Identity,” ”Family and Aging,” “War Memory,” and “Popular Culture and Manga,” in Japan:Places, Images, Times, and Transformations, edited by J. Thomas Rimer and L. Keith Brown. Multimedia web/DVD project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2008 forthcoming.

 

Melanie Hughes

Book

2007 Paxton, Pamela and Melanie M. Hughes. Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. (Sociology for a New Century Series.)

Articles

2008 Downey, Douglas, Paul von Hippel, and Melanie M. Hughes. “Are ‘Failing’ School Really Failing? Using Seasonal Comparisons to Separate School from Non-School Effects on Learning.” Sociology of Education 81(3):242-270.

2008 Hughes, Melanie M. and Pamela Paxton. “Continuous Change, Episodes, and Critical Periods: A Framework for Understanding Women's Political Representation over Time.” Politics & Gender 4(2):233-264.

2007 Hughes, Melanie M. “Windows of Political Opportunity: Institutional Instability and Gender Inequality in the World’s National Legislatures.” International Journal of Sociology 37(4):26-51.

2007 Hughes, Melanie M. and Pamela Paxton. “Familiar Theories from a New Perspective: The Implications of a Longitudinal Approach to Women in Politics Research.” Politics & Gender 3(3):370-378.

2007 Paxton, Pamela, Sheri Kunovich, and Melanie M. Hughes. “Gender in Politics.” Annual Review of Sociology 33:263-84.

2006 Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, and Jennifer Green. “The International Women’s Movement and Women’s Political Representation, 1893-2003.” American Sociological Review 71(6):898-920.

 

John Markoff

Book Chapters

"Communism" in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

"Comparative Analysis," in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

"Imperialism," in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

"Peasant Movements," in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

"Revolution," in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2006).

 

Suzanne Staggenborg

Articles

"Culture and Ritual in the Montreal Women's Movement" (with Amy Lang). Forthcoming in Social Movement Studies, 2007.

"Patterns of Mobilization in Local Movement Organization: Leadership and Strategy in Four Chapters of National Organization for Women" (w/ Jo Reger). Pp. 297-323 in Sociological Perspectives 49(3), 2006.

"Grassroots Organizing in a Federated Structure: NOW Chapter in Four Local Fields" (w/ Jo Reger). Pp. 95-114 in US Women's movement in a Dynamic and Global Perspective, edited by Lee Ann Banaszak Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

 

 

Graduate Student Publications

Maria Jose Alvarez Rivadulla

Journal Articles:

Álvarez-Rivadulla, María José. 2007. “Golden Ghettos: Gated Communities and Class Residential Segregation in Montevideo, Uruguay”. Environment and Planning 39 (2): 47-63.

Babones, Salvatore J.María José Álvarez-Rivadulla. 2007. “Standardized Income Inequality Data for Use in Cross-National Research”. Sociological Inquiry, 77 (1): 3-22.

Chapters in edited books:

Álvarez-Rivadulla, María José, John Markoff y Verónica Montecinos. Forthcoming. “The transamerican market advocacy think tank movement”. En Garcé and Uña (eds.), Think Tanks and Public Policies in Latin América, IDRC.

Montecinos, Verónica; John Markoff y María José Álvarez-Rivadulla. Forthcoming. “Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence and Connection” (Introductory and Comparative Chapter). En Montecinos and Markoff (eds), Economists in the Americas: Convergence, Divergence, and Connection, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, US: Edward Elgar.

 

Nichole Bayliss

Abstracts

Bean-Mayberry B, Brucker NJ, Bayliss N, Xu X, Crick E, Mor M, Yano E, Fine MJ. Effect of gender and race on receipt of pneumococcal and influenza immunizations in VA. J Gen Int Med 2006;21(s4):44.

Bayliss N, Bean-Mayberry B, Yano E, Navratil J, Weisman C, Scholle S.
Searching for Women's Health Centers: yield of Internet vs. traditional telephone contacts for identifying research sites. Journal of Women's Health, 2005;14 (4):370.


Walbrown MA, Aspinall SL, Bayliss NK, Stone RA, Cunningham F, Squier CL and Good CB. (2008). Evaluation of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with a drug formulary change in preferred fluoroquinolones.
Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 14(1): 34-40.

Manuscripts

Bean-Mayberry B, Yano E, Bayliss N, Navratil J, Weisman C, Scholle S.
Federally funded comprehensive women's health centers: Leading innovation in women's health care delivery. Journal of Women's Health 2007;16(9):1281-1290.

 

Spencer Foster

PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED):

Foster, Spencer.  2008.  “The Sociology of Sports.”  Pp. 30 – 34 in The Sociology of Sport:  Syllabi and Teaching Resources (4th Edition), Longest, Kyle C., editor.  Washington, D.C.:  American Sociological Association.

Gerde, Virginia W. and R. Spencer Foster. 2008. “X-Men Ethics: Using Comic Books in Teaching Business and Society.” Journal of Business Ethics
77:245 – 258.

Foster, R. Spencer (revise and resubmit). “Fertile Ground: A Social Network Analysis of Generations of the Environmental Movement.” Target
Journal: Organization & Environment.

Gerde, Virginia W. and R. Spencer Foster. (revise and resubmit; under review). “The Relationship between Financial Performance and Health and Safety Performance: Using Corporate Social Performance Ratings.” Target
Journal: Canadian Journal of Administrative Science.

Foster, R. Spencer. 2006. “The Influence of Gender and Race on Occupational Segregation in Urban Brazilian Workers.” Sociological Viewpoints 22:33 – 50.

Foster, R. Spencer, Mike G. Aamodt, James A. Bodenmiller, Jeffrey G.
Rodgers, Robert C. Kovach, and Devon A. Bryan. 1988. “The Effect of Menu Sign Position on Customer Order Time and Number of Food Ordering Errors.”
Environment and Behavior 20(2):200 – 210.

PROCEEDINGS:

Gerde, Virginia W. and R. Spencer Foster. 2006. “X-Men Ethics: Using Comic Books in Teaching Business and Society.” Pp. 297 – 302 in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, Husted, Bryan W. and Jeanne M.
Logsdon, editors.

Gerde, Virginia W. and R. Spencer Foster. 2006. “Political Contributions and Defense Contractors, and No-Bid Contracts: A Social Network Analysis.”
Pp. 215 – 220 in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, Husted, Bryan W. and Jeanne M. Logsdon, editors.

 

Kai Heidemann

Heidemann, Kai (2007) “The Process of Norwegianization in Saami Communities: A   critical exploration of language, education and nationalism” In Languages of the Land: Policy, Politics, Identity. Shuster, K. and Witgotsky, D. [eds.] Information  Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.

Heidemann, Kai (2006) Book review of “Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe:       Evidence from the Euromosaic Project” by Glyn Williams. In The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 6(1) pp.17-18.

 Paulston, Christina Bratt and Heidemann, Kai (2005) “Language Policy and the                       Education of Linguistic Minorities” In Language Policy: Theory and Method.Ricento, T. [ed.] Blackwells: Malden, MA.

Heidemann, Kai (2003) Book review of “Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy” by Dennis Ager. In The Journal of the Society for the  Anthropology of Europe, 3(1) pp.40-1.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Heidemann, Kai “From Struggles to Strategies: Jacobin Governance and Ethnolinguistic Activism in the French Basque Country”. To be submitted to the journal "Ethnicities" in Spring 2008.

 

Yolanda Hernandez-Albujar

Hernandez-Albujar Y. (2007). The Symbolism of Video: Exploring Migrant Mothers’ Experiences. In G. H. Stanczak (ed.), Visual Research Methods.
Image, society, and Representation (pp. 281-306). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Gemignani, M. & Hernandez-Albujar, Y. The advancement of visual
methodologies: integrating the senses with reflexivity and phenomenology.
[Review of The future of visual anthropology: Engaging the senses by Pink, S.]. PsycCRITIQUES—Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

 

Poitr Konieczny

Article:”Symbole, interfejs uzytkownika i agenci interfejsu w dialogu pomiedzy uzytkownikiem a komputerem na przykladzie komputerowych ekonomicznych gier strategicznych” in “Jezyk Kultura  Komunikacja, ILS, Kulturotwórcza  funkcja gier, Gra jako medium, tekst i rytual, tom II”,  Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznan 2007

Article: “Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool”, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, January 2007, Vol. 4. No. 1.

Forthcoming

Article: “Something wikid this way comes: Wikipedia as a case study of adhocratic governance in the Internet Age”, Sociological Forum

 

Xi (Cecilia) Zhang

Salvatore Babones and Xi Zhang. "Heterogeneity in the Global South in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Foreign Trade." forthcoming in International Review of Modern Sociology.