Recent PhD Student Publications*

Yu, Chang and Ashley B Barr. 2025. "Social Activities and Cognitive Functioning Across Mid- and Late-Life: Evidence from China." The Gerontologist, gnaf014.  https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf014

Barr, Ashley B. and Zhe Zhang. 2024. “Juvenile School Discipline and Well-being among College-Educated Emerging Adults.” Emerging Adulthood, 12(3): 275–289. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/216769682412354

Finkeldey, Jessica G., Christopher Dennison, N. Tucker Reyes, Abigayle DiRusso, and Mercedes Brown. 2024. "Contact with and Perceptions of Campus Police Among College Students at a Small-Town University." Criminal Justice Review. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/07340168241240450

Liu, Qian, Yuanyuan Wu, Chang Yu, Yaolin Pei. 2024. "Social Activities and Depressive Symptoms Among Migrant Middle-aged and Older Adults in China: A Network Analysis." Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1376180

Obernesser, Laura and Elizabeth Seale. 2024. "The Dark Side of Agency: A Life Course Exploration of Agency among White, Rural, and Impoverished Residents of New York State." Qualitative Sociology Review, 20(2), 46-69. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.20.2.03

Zhang, Zhe and Ashley Barr. 2024. "Gentrification and crime in Buffalo, New York." PLoS One, 19:6, e0302832. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302832

Zhang, Zhe, Shelley M. Kimelberg, and Robert M. Adelman. 2024. "Considering Small-City Gentrification". Contexts, 23(4), 57-59. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/15365042241293437

Besek, Jordan Fox and Anupriya Pandey. 2023. "Streaming Verstehen: Whither Feature Film in the Classroom?" Teaching Sociology, 51(2), 170-180. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/0092055X221123337

Huang, Rui, Yulin Yang, Anna Zajacova, Zachary Zimmer, Yuhang, Li, and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2023. "Educational disparities in joint pain within and across US states: Do macro sociopolitical contexts matter?" PAIN 164(10):p 2358-2369. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002945

Hyatt, Jordan M., Synøve N. Andersen, Veronica L. Horowitz, and Hannah Nario-Lopez. 2023. “Correctional Officers, the Carceral Environment and Re-entry: Perspectives from the U.S. and Scandinavia.” Advancing Corrections Journal Issue 15. pp. 101-114. https://icpa.org/resources/advancing-corrections-journal.html

James, Shauntey and J. Coley. 2023. "Separate but unequal: Revisiting the discussion of trans-inclusive bathrooms." Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 6(1), 33–46. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1002/sgp2.12056

Lu, Yunmei, Mateus R Santos, and Zhe Zhang. 2023. "Social Change, Gender Stratification and the Sex Gap of Homicide Victimization in 76 Countries, 1975–2017." The British Journal of Criminology, 63(4): 1058–1079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac077.

Finkeldey, Jessica G., Christopher Dennison, and Shiyue Cui. 2022. "The intersecting associations between race and ethnicity, skin color, and perceived unfair treatment by police." Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 21(1), 1–26. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1080/15377938.2022.2152145

Huang, Rui, and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2022. “Health and Health Behaviors in China: Anomalies in the SES-Health Gradient?” SSM - Population Health 17:101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101069

Yang, Yulin, Rui Huang, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, and Jacqueline M. Torres. 2022. “Social Network Change after New-Onset Pain among Middle-Aged and Older European Adults.” Social Science & Medicine 310:115215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115215