PhD Student Publications

Adams, Jonas. Forthcoming. “Reporting Revitalization: Local Newspaper Portrayals of Economic Change in a Small Rustbelt City.” Urban Affairs Review.
 

Ceja Morales, Gabriela and Mary Nell Trautner. 2026. “The invisibility of inequality: men’s perspectives of gender issues in the workplace.” Journal of Gender Studies, 1–21.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Dennison, Christopher R., Sirat Kaur, and Egbert Zavala. 2026. “Code of the Street, Intimate Partner Violence, and Emotional Invalidation.” Deviant Behavior, July, 1–19.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Fairbanks, Chandler. 2026. “Bisexual Identity, Stress, and Romantic Relationships.” Family Relations, 75(2), 1294–1311. (Updating his “forthcoming” listing because now in print)
 

Huang, Rui, Yuhang Li, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Zachary Zimmer, and Tran Khanh Toan. 2026. “Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Chronic Pain in Vietnam: Risk, Resilience, and Timing.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 00221465251401249.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Kimelberg, Shelley M. and Makaela Brass. 2026. “Confronting the Hidden Curriculum: Call for Resistance or Tool for Success?” Sociology Compass: e70220.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Lee, Byung Soo. 2026. “The perceived meaning of eldercare among the sandwich generation of Koreans in Korea and Korean immigrants in the United States.” Social Forces. soaf244.

Li, Rui, Rui Huang, Kavin Srinakarin, Anna Zajacova, Zachary Zimmer, Tonya Palermo, and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2026. “Country-Level Gender Inequality and Sex Disparities in Adolescent Chronic Pain: A 47-Country Analysis.” Preventive Medicine. 108495.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Pandey, Anupriya and Jordan Fox. “The World Bank” in The Sage Encyclopedia of Environmental Justice. Edited by Dorceta Taylor. Sage.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Trautner, Mary Nell and Margaret Rex. 2026. “Turning medical problems into legal problems: social media, legal consciousness, and transforming guilt into blame.” Law & Society Review, 1–30.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Yu, Chang, Ashley B. Barr, Yulin Yang, and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2026. “Beyond Pain Presence: The Impact of Multisite Pain and Pain Interference on Cognitive Functioning among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. gbaf220.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Yu, Chang and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2026. “The Divergent Roles of Childhood Literacy and Food Availability in Cognitive Aging: Evidence from Two Chinese Longitudinal Datasets.” The Gerontologist, gnag154.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Adams, Jonas. 2025. “Becoming Uniquely Urban: A Small City’s Socio-Environmental Development Since 1945.” City & Community, 24(4), 289–311.
 

Barr, Ashley B., Mary Nell Trautner, N. Tucker Reyes. 2025. “Race, Gender, and Juvenile Determinism: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Punishment Attitudes Towards Juvenile Offenders.” Race and Justice, 0(0).
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Barr, Ashley B., Christopher Dennison, Kristen Schultz Lee, and Zhe Zhang. 2025. “Rethinking Intergenerational Influence: Adult Children’s Education, Parental Cognitive Health, and the Role of Selection.” Social Science and Medicine. 384:118529.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Cadigan, Michele, Brittany Martin, Veronica Horowitz, Makaela Brass, and Timothy G. Edgemon. 2025. “Compounding and Complicating Feelings of Justice: LFOs and Legal Legitimacy in Georgia, Minnesota, and Washington State.” Journal of Crime and Justice, 1–22.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Ceja Morales, Gabriela. 2025. “The Production of ‘Eco-Chic’ Tourism: Exclusion and Environmental Inequality in Tulum, Mexico.” Environmental Sociology, November, 1–15.
 

Dwyer Emory, Allison and Grace C. Sementilli. 2025. “Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 1–22.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Fairbanks, Chandler and Mary Nell Trautner. 2025. “What’s in a Name? Gender & Power in Popular Music, 1960-2019.” Men and Masculinities, 0(0).
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna, Rui Huang, Chang Yu, Yu-An Chen, Sirat Kaur, Merita Limani, Ting-Hui Lin, et al. 2025. “Over Fifty Years of Research on Social Disparities in Pain and Pain Treatment.” Pain, 166(11): 2458–2472. 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003676
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Hatton, Erin, Srushti Upadhyay, and Logan Phlox Williams. 2025. “Teaching Sociology Through Violence? The Pedagogical Use and Misuse of Violence in Soc 101 Textbooks.” Teaching Sociology, 0(0).
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Horowitz, Veronica L., Chanenson, Steven L., Uggen, Christopher, Nario-Lopez, Hannah, Andersen, Synøve N., and Hyatt, Jordan M. 2025. “Discouraging dignity: Linguistic barriers to transforming the prison environment.” International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 82, 100755.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Horowitz, Veronica L., Sirat Kaur, Synøve N. Andersen, and Jordan M. Hyatt. 2025. “Shared Sorrow: Navigating Mass Grief in Incarceration.” Social Sciences, 14(10), 577.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Huang, Rui, Yuhang Li, and Feinuo Sun. 2025. “Welfare Policies, Joint Pain Prevalence and Educational Gaps in 50 U.S. States from 2011 to 2021: A Fixed Effects Analysis.” The Journal of Pain 36.

Kaur, Sirat. 2025. “Nikki Haley’s Identity Politics and Its Impact on Immigrants.” Sikh Formations, 1–8.

Mills, Krystal, Francisco Figueroa, RaKetra Knight, Emem Ekpo, Lilian Lee, Lance Baldo, Chuanbo Xu, Siqi Wang, Robert M. Adelman, Priscilla Pemu, Theodore Levin, Aasma Shaukat, Julia J. Liu. 2025. “Fact or Myth? Black Patients Do Not Want to Participate in Clinical Trials.” Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 16(4): e00826. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000826. 
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Nario-Lopez, Hannah. 2025. “Staging State Embodiment: Performativity, Emotional Labor, and Recalibrating Dynamic Security in a Philippine City Jail.” The Embodied State: Emotions, State Power & Social Marginalisation. Edited by Aliverti, A., Carvalho, H., Chamberlen, A. and Tawfic, S. London: Routledge.
 

Pandey, Anupriya. 2025. “Toward a Critical Caste Ecology: How Does Agrochemical Harm Interact with Caste Relations in Rural India.” Social Problems. spaf048.

Yu, Chang and Ashley B Barr. 2025. “Social Activities and Cognitive Functioning Across Mid- and Late-Life: Evidence from China.” The Gerontologist, gnaf014.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Yu, Chang, Ashley B. Barr, Yulin Yang, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2025. “Beyond Pain Presence: The Impact of Multisite Pain and Pain Interference on Cognitive Functioning Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gbaf220.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Yuanyuan Wu, Chang Yu, Kristen S. Lee. 2025. “Voluntary Participation and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Older Adults: A Propensity Score Analysis.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (Social Sciences). doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaf127
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration
 

Yuanyuan Wu, Meng Cai, Chang Yu. 2025. “Depression and Internet Use Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak among Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Network Analysis.” BMC Psychology.

Barr, Ashley B. and Zhe Zhang. 2024. “Juvenile School Discipline and Well-being among College-Educated Emerging Adults.” Emerging Adulthood, 12(3): 275–289.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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.

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.

Reyes, Nicholas Tucker and Headworth, Spencer. 2024. “Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans.” Law & Social Inquiry, 49(4): 2184–2212.

Zhang, Zhe and Ashley Barr. 2024. “Gentrification and crime in Buffalo, New York.” PLoS One, 19(6), e0302832.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Zhang, Zhe, Shelley M. Kimelberg, and Robert M. Adelman. 2024. “Considering Small-City Gentrification.” Contexts, 23(4), 57–59.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Besek, Jordan Fox and Anupriya Pandey. 2023. “Streaming Verstehen: Whither Feature Film in the Classroom?” Teaching Sociology, 51(2), 170–180.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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): 2358–2369.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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, 15: 101–114.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

James, Shauntey and J. Coley. 2023. “Separate but unequal: Revisiting the discussion of trans-inclusive bathrooms.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 6(1), 33–46.

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.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

McLeskey, Matthew and Laura Obernesser. 2023. “Strategies for the Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor in Graduate Student and Contingent Teaching.” Sociological Focus, 57(1):1.

Njoku, K., Figueroa, F. A., Liu, M., Narain-Blackwell, M., Ward, L., Adelman, Robert, Liu, J. 2023. “Trust and Access in the Medical Community: Results from a Survey of African American Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.” Atlanta Medicine, 94(6): 20–22.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

Huang, Rui, and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. 2022. “Health and Health Behaviors in China: Anomalies in the SES-Health Gradient?” SSM - Population Health, 17:101069.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration

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.
🔵 Faculty-student collaboration