Recent PhD Student Publications*

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Adams, Jonas. Forthcoming. "Becoming Uniquely Urban: A Small City’s Socio-Environmental Development Since 1945." City & Community, 0(0). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/15356841251341260

Barr, Ashley B., Mary Nell Trautner, N. Tucker Reyes. Forthcoming. "Race, Gender, and Juvenile Determinism: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Punishment Attitudes Towards Juvenile Offenders." Race and Justice, 0(0). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/21533687251341270

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2025.2541718.

Dwyer Emory, Allison and Grace C. Sementilli. 2025. "Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement." Journal of Marriage and Family, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13104

Fairbanks, Chandler and Mary Nell Trautner. Forthcoming. “What’s in a Name? Gender & Power in Popular Music, 1960-2019.” Men and Masculinities.

Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna, Rui Huang, Chang Yu, Yu-An Chen, Sirat Kaur, Merita Limani, Ting-Hui Lin... Forthcoming. "Over Fifty Years of Research on Social Disparities in Pain and Pain Treatment." Pain.

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). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1177/0092055X251369087.

Horowitz, Veronica L., Chanenson, Steven L., Uggen, Christopher, Nario-Lopez, Hannah, Andersen, Synøve N., & Hyatt, Jordan M. 2025. “Discouraging dignity: Linguistic barriers to transforming the prison environment.” International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 82, 100755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100755

Horowitz, Veronica L., Sirat Kaur, Synøve N. Andersen, and Jordan M. Hyatt. Forthcoming. “Shared Sorrow: Navigating Mass Grief in Incarceration.” Social Sciences.

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105539.

Kaur, Sirat. 2025. “Nikki Haley’s Identity Politics and Its Impact on Immigrants.” Sikh Formations, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2025.2552033.

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.

Nario-Lopez, Hannah. Forthcoming. "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. & 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf048.

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

Yu, Chang, Ashley B. Barr, Yulin Yang, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk. Forthcoming. "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)

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

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. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-03119-8

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

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. 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/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.

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 DOI:10.1080/00380237.2023.2293980

Njoku, K., Figueroa, F. A., Liu, M., Narain-Blackwell, M., Ward, L., Adelman, R., 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.

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

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