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Recent books by department faculty:

  • Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies:  Organization of Chinese Economics
    Gary G. Hamilton, 2006, London:  Routledge
  • Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
    Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, 2006, Princeton:  Princeton University Press
  • Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany : The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
    Steve Pfaff, 2006, Durham:  Duke University Press
  • Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan
    Gary G. Hamilton, Nicole W. Biggart, and Robert C. Feenstra, 2006, New York:  Cambridge University Press
  • Following Francis: The Franciscan Way for Everyone
    Susan Pitchford, 2006, Harrisburg, PA:  Morehouse.
  • Murder: A Multidisciplinary Anthology of Readings (fourth edition)
    Joseph G. Weis, editor, 2006, Mason, Ohio:  Thomson Learning. 
  • FindingYour Perfect Match
    Pepper Schwartz, 2006, New York:  Perigee
  • Social Norms
    Michael Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp, eds., 2005, New York:  Russell Sage Foundation
  • Sport in Society:  Readings in the Sociology of Sport (second edition)
    Joseph G. Weis, 2005, Mason, Ohio:  Thomson Learning
  • The Sociology of Deviance (second edition)
    Joseph G. Weis, editor, 2005, Mason, Ohio:  Thomson Learning
  • The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (second edition)
    Katherine Beckett with Theodore Sasson, 2004, Thousand Oaks:  SAGE
  • American Diversity: A Demographic Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
    Stewart E. Tolnay and N. Denton, eds., 2002, Albany:  State University of New York Press
  • Women and Men at Work (second edition)
    Irene Padavic and Barbara F. Reskin, 2002, Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge Press
  • Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market
    Annette D. Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark Handcock, and Mark Scott, 2001, New York:  Russell Sage Foundation
Recipient of the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality Distinguished Book Award and the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
  • Containing Nationalism
    Michael Hechter, 2001, New York:  Oxford University Press
  • Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions
    Daniel Chirot, ed., with Martin Seligman, 2001, Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association Press
  • Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
    Charles Hirschman, Josh DeWind, and Philip Kasinitzj, eds., 1999, New York:  Russell Sage
  • The Bottom Rung: African-American Family Life on Southern Farms
    Stewart E. Tolnay, 1999, Urbana, IL:  University of Illinois Press

1999 Otis Dudley Duncan Award , Sociology of Population Section, American Sociological Association

  • Cosmopolitan Capitalists : Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century
    Gary G. Hamilton, ed., 1999, Seattle:  University of Washington Press
  • The Realities of Affirmative Action
    Barbara F. Reskin
    , 1998, Washington, DC:  American Sociological Association
  • Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe
    Daniel Chirot, ed., with Anthony Reid, 1997, Seattle:  University of Washington Press
  • Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology
    Judith A. Howard and Jocelyn Hollander, 1997, Thousand Oaks, CA:  SAGE.
  • Asian Business Networks
    Gary G. Hamilton, ed., 1996, Berlin:  Walter de Gryter
  • A Fesitval of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930
    Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck, 1995, Urbana, IL:  University of Illinois Press
Social Science History Association President's Book Award, Mid-South Sociological Association Book Award, and Outstanding Book Award: Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America
  • Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age
    Daniel Chirot, 1994, New York:  The Free Press
  • Gender in Intimate Relations
    Pepper Schwartz and Barbara Risman, eds., 1989, Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth
  • Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the U.S. since the New Deal
    Paul Burstein, 1985, Chicago:  University of Chicago Press
Outstanding Book Award:  The Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

Articles

Selected recent articles published by department faculty:

2006

  • Beckett, Katherine with Kris Nyrop and Lori Pfingst.  "Race, Drugs and Policing: Understanding Disparities in Drug Delivery Arrests."  Criminology. 44,1: 105-138.

  • Burstein, Paul.  "Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy Are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications." Social Forces. 84.
  • Chirot, Daniel.  "The Debacle in Cote d'Ivoire."  Journal of Democracy.  17:2.
  • Adjuik, Martin, Tom Smith, Sam Clark, Jim Todd, Anu Garrib, Yohannes Kinfu, Kathy Kahn, Mitiki Mola, Ali Ashraf, Honorati Masanja, et al. "Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh." Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84(3):161-256.
  • Handcock, Mark S., S. Shortreed, and P. Hoff.  :Positional Estimation within the Latent Space Model for Networks." Methodology. 2(1):24-33.

  • Hargens, L. L. and Jerald R. Herting. "Analyzing the Association Between Referee's Recommendations and Editors' Decisions." Scientometrics 67:15-26.
  • Kitts, James A. "Collective Action, Rival Incentives, and the Emergence of Antisocial Norms" American Sociological Review.  71(2):235-259.
  • Kitts, James A. "Social Influence and the Emergence of Norms Amid Ties of Amity and Enmity." Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory. 14(3), 407-422.
  • Matsueda, Ross L., David Huizinga, and Derek Kreager. "Deterring Delinquents: A Rational Choice Model of Theft and Violence." American Sociological Review. 71:95-122.
  • Hao, Lingxin, and Ross L. Matsueda. "Family Dynamics Through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems." Social Science Research. 35:500-524.
  • Gottardo, R., A.E. Raftery, K.Y. Yeung, and R.E. Bumgarner. "Bayesian Robust Inference
    for Differential Gene Expression in cDNA Microarrays with Multiple Samples." Biometrics. 62, 10–18.
  • Czado, C.C. and A.E. Raftery.  "Choosing the Link function and Accounting for Link Uncertainty in Generalized Linear Models using Bayes Factors."  Statistical Papers. 47: 419–442.
  • Gottardo, R., A.E. Raftery, K.Y. Yeung, and R.E. Bumgarner. "Quality Control and Robust
    Estimation for cDNA Microarrays with Replicates."  Journal of the American Statistical Association. 101:30–40.
  • Raftery, A.E. and N. Dean. "Variable Selection for Model-Based Clustering."  Journal of the
    American Statistical Assocatio
    n. 101:168–178.
  • Stovel, Katherine and Michael Savage. "Mergers and Mobility: The Origins of Career Migration at Lloyds Bank." American Journal of Sociology. 111:1080-1121.
  • Tolnay, Stewart E. and Suzanne Eichenlaub. "Southerners in the West: The Relative Well-Being of Direct and Onward Migrants."   Social Forces 84:1639-1663.
  • Tolnay, Stewart E. and Amy Kate Bailey.  "Schooling for Newcomers: Variation in Educational Persistence in the Northern United States in 1920."  Sociology of Education.  79(3):253-279.
 

2005

  • Beckett, Katherine with Kris Nyrop, Lori Pfingst and Melissa Bowen. "Drug Use, Drug Arrests, and the Question of Race: Lessons from Seattle." Social Problems. 52,3: 419-41.
  • Beckett, Katherine and Bruce Hoffman. Challenging Medicine:  "Law, Resistance, and the cultural Politics of Childbirth."  Law and Society Review. 39,5:125-169.
  • Beckett, Katherine.  "Choosing Cesarean: Feminism and the Politics of Childbirth in the U.S." Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal. 6,3: 251-275.
  • Burstein, Paul and Sarah Sausner. "The Incidence and Impact of Policy-Oriented Collective Action: Competing Views" Sociological Forum. 20:403-19.
  • Burstein, Paul, Shawn Bauldry, and Paul Froese. "Bill Sponsorship and Congressional Support for Policy Proposals, from Introduction to Enactment or Disappearance."  Political Research
    Quarterly
    . 58:295-302.
  • Chirot, Daniel.  "Modernization Theory, Ideology, and Economic Success:  Putting Korea's Development in Comparative Perspective."  Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.  5:1:51-75.
  • R. Clark, A. Harris & W. Allen. "After-School Youth Programs: How They Affect Youths' Educational Progress." Challenge. 11(2).

  • E.A. Thompson, J. Mazza, J.R. Herting, and L.L. Eggert. "The Mediating Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Hopelessness on Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors." Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior.  35(1)14-34.

  • Vander Stoep, A., E. McCauley, K. Thompson, E.S. Kuo, J. Herting, D. Stewart, C. Anderson, and S. Kushner. "Universal Screening for Emotional Distress During the Middle School Transition." Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. 13(4):213.

  • Hirschman, Charles.  "Immigration and the American Century."  Demography.  42(November): 595-620.
  • Miller, W.d., H.Swygard, M.M. Hobbbs, C.A. Ford, M. Handcock, M. Morris, J.L. Schmitz, M.S. Cohen, K.M. Harris, and J.R. Udry.  "The Prevalence of Trichomoniasis Infections Among Young Adults in the United States."  Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
  • Pettit, Becky and Jennifer Hook. "The Structure of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective."' Social Forces. 84:779-801.
  • Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. "Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration."' American Journal of Sociology. 111:553-578.
Recipient of James F. Short, Jr. Paper Award from the ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance section.
  • Froese, Paul and Steven Pfaff. "Explaining a Religious Anomaly: A Historical Analysis of Secularization in Eastern Germany." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.  44/4:397-422.
  • Gillian H. Murphy and Steven Pfaff. "Thinking Locally, Acting Globally? What the Seattle WTO Protests Tell Us About the Global Justice Movement."   Political Power and Social Theory. Vol. 17:151-176.
  • Walsh, D.C.I. and A.E. Raftery. "Classification of Mixtures of Spatial Point Processes via Partial Bayes Factors."  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 14:139-154.
  • Fuentes, M. and A.E. Raftery. "Model Evaluation and Spatial Interpolation by Bayesian Combination of Observations with Outputs from Numerical Models."  Biometrics.  66:36–45.
  • Raftery, A.E., F. Balabdaoui, T. Gneiting, and M. Polakowski. "Using Bayesian Model
    Averaging to Calibrate Forecast Ensembles."  Monthly Weather Review.  133:1155–1174.
  • Gneiting, T., A.E. Raftery, A.Westveld, and T. Goldman. "Calibrated Probabilistic Forecasting
    Using Ensemble Model Output Statistics and Minimum CRPS Estimation." Monthly Weather
    Review
    .  133:1098–1118.
  • Murtagh, F., A.E. Raftery, and J.L. Starck.  "Bayesian Iinference for Multiband Image Segmentation via Model-Based Cluster Trees."  Image and Vision Computing.  23:587–596.
  • Li, Q., C. Fraley, R.E. Bumgarner, K.Y. Yeung, and A.E. Raftery.  "Donuts, Scratches and
    Blanks: Robust Model-Based Segmentation of Microarray Images."  Bioinformatics.  21: 2874–2882.
  • Yeung, K.Y., R.E. Bumgarner, and A.E. Raftery. "Bayesian Model Averaging: Development
    of an Improved Multi-Class, Gene Selection and Classification Tool for Microarray Data." Bioinformatics.  21:2394–2402.
  • Fraley, C., A.E. Raftery, and R. Wehrens.  "Incremental Model-Based Clustering for Large
    Datasets with Small Clusters."  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.  14:1–18.
  • Gneiting, T. and A.E. Raftery. Atmospheric Science — Weather Forecasting with Ensemble
    Methods.  Science.  310:248–249.
  • Dean, N. and A.E. Raftery.  "Normal Uniform Mixture Differential Gene Expression Detection for cDNA Microarrays.  BMC Bioinformatics.  6,Article no 173.
  • Raftery, A.E., I.S. Painter. and C.T. Volinsky.  "BMA: An R Package for Bayesian Model
    Averaging."  R News.  5(2):2–8.
  • Reskin, Barbara.  "Unconsciousness Raising:  Women's Underrepresentation in Top-Level Jobs."  Regional Review.  14:32-37.
  • Harper, Shannon and Barbara Reskin.  "Affirmative Action in School and on the Job."  Annual Review of Sociology.  31.
  • Reskin, Barbara F., and Denise D. Bielby.  "A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes."  Journal of Economic Perspectives. 19(Winter):71-86.
  • Tolnay, Stewart E., Katherine Curtis White, Kyle D. Crowder, and Robert M. Adelman. "Distances Traveled During the ‘Great Migration': An Analysis of Racial Differences Among Male Migrants."  Social Science History.   29:523-48.
  • Curtis White, Katherine J., Kyle Crowder, Stewart E. Tolnay, and Robert M. Adelman. "Race, Gender, and Marriage: Destination Selection During the Great Migration." Demography.  42:215-241.
  • Keppel, Robert, Joseph Weis, Katherine Brown, and Kristen Welch. "The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis of the 1888-91 Whitechapel Murders."   Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.  January.

2004

  • Beckett, Katherine, and Theodore Sasson.  "Crime, Politics and the Public: The Sources of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.A.". The Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology 29:27-49.
  • Crutchfield, R. D. "Warranted disparity? Questioning the justification of racial disparity in criminal justice processing." Columbia Human Rights Law Review (special issue).
  • Hargens, L. L. "What is Mertonian Sociology of Science?" Scientometrics. 60:63-70.

  • Hechter, Michael, "From Class to Culture."  American Journal of Sociology.  110(2):400-445.
  • Hirschman, Charles. "The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race." Population and Development Review.  30:385-415.

  • Hirschman, Charles. "The Role of Religion in the Origins and Adaptation of Immigrant Groups in the United States." International Migration Review.  38:1206-1233.

  • Kiser, Edgar and Yong Cai. "Chinese Bureaucratization in Comparative Perspective: Reply to Zhao" American Sociological Review.  69(4):608-12.
  • Miller, W.C., C.A. Ford, M. Morris, M.S. Handcock, J.L. Schmitz, M.M. Hobbs, M.S. Cohen, K.M. Harris, and J.R. Udry. "Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infection among young adults in the United States." JAMA.   291(18):2229-2236.

  • Koehly, L., S. Goodreau,and M. Morris.  "Exponential Family Models fo rSampled and Census Network Data."   Sociological Methodolody.  34:241-270.
  • Pettit, Becky. "Moving and Children’s Social Connections: Neighborhood Context and the Consequences of Moving for Low-income Families." Sociological Forum. 19:285-311.
  • Pettit, Becky and Bruce Western. "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration."  American Sociological Review. 69:151-169.

Honorable Mention 2003-2005 Sociology of Law Article Prize.

  • Stovel, Katherine and Marc Bolan. "Residential Trajectories: The Use of Sequence Analysis in the Study of Residential Mobility."  Sociological Methods and Research.  32:559-598.
  • Bearman, Peter, James Moody, and Katherine Stovel. "Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks."  American Journal of Sociology. 110(1):44-99.

American Journal of Sociology Roger Gould Prize for Best Article

  • Shafii, Taraneh, Katherine Stovel, Robert Davis and King K. Holmes. "Is Condom Use Habit-Forming? Condom Use at Sexual Debut and Subsequent Condom Use."   Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 31(6)366-372.
  • Keppel, Robert and and Joseph Weis.  "The Rarity of ‘Unusual' Dispositions of Victim Bodies: Staging and Posing."  Journal of Forensic Sciences. November.

2003 and earlier

  • Burstein, Paul. 2003.  "Is Congress Really for Sale?" Contexts 2:19-25.
  • Steven Pfaff and Hyojoung Kim.  2003 "Exit-Voice Dynamics in Collective Action: An Analysis of Emigration and Protest in the East German Revolution." American Journal of Sociology 109 (2):401-444.
Best published article, American Sociological Association's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
  • Steven Pfaff and Edgar Kiser. 2003.  "Theory, History and comparative Political Sociology: Assessing Recent Analyses of the Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of States."  Research in Political Sociology. 12.
  • Pfaff, Steven, and Guobin Yang. 2001. "Double-Edged Rituals and the Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Explaining Protest in Eastern Europe and China in 1989." Theory and Society.  30(4):539-589.
Best Published Paper, American Sociological Assocation's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
  • Tolnay, Stewart E. 2003.  "The Living Arrangements of African American and Immigrant Children, 1880-2000." Journal of Family History.  29:421-445.
  • Tolnay, Stewart.  2003.  "The African American 'Great Migration' and Beyond."  Annual Review of Sociology.  29:209-32.
  • Tolnay, Stewart.  2003.  "Trends in the Relative Occupational Status of African Americans and European Immigrants in Northern Cities, 1880-1970."  Social Science Research.  32:603-632.

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