Research & Scholarship

• Danielle Bessett has been named Co-Investigator for the Community Health Program Grant, Center for Clinical & Translational Science & Training (CCTST) examining Contraception Uptake among High Risk Populations: Improving Reproductive Health Services Offered in Public Health Systems (Principal Investigator: Jennifer L. Mooney, Hamilton County Reproductive Health & Wellness Program Director, Cincinnati Health Department) 

• Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Littisha Bates, and Maliq Matthew received a grant from the Fordham Institute to evaluate the research on children’s pathways out of poverty.

• Jennifer Malat is working on The Ohio Collaborative, a March of Dimes-funded project to understand how stress affects premature birth.

• David Maume received an NSF grant to study how sleep problems affects rates of depression, substance use, and obesity among teenagers.

• Danielle Bessett has been named Co-Investigator for the Community Health Program Grant, Center for Clinical & Translational Science & Training (CCTST) examining Contraception Uptake among High Risk Populations: Improving Reproductive Health Services Offered in Public Health Systems (Principal Investigator: Jennifer L. Mooney, Hamilton County Reproductive Health & Wellness Program Director, Cincinnati Health Department) 

• Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Littisha Bates, and Maliq Matthew received a grant from the Fordham Institute to evaluate the research on children’s pathways out of poverty.

• Jennifer Malat is working on The Ohio Collaborative, a March of Dimes-funded project to understand how stress affects premature birth.

• David Maume received an NSF grant to study how sleep problems affects rates of depression, substance use, and obesity among teenagers.

• Rajack-Talley, Theresa and Derrick R. Brooms (eds.). 2018. Living Racism: Through the Barrel of the Book. Lexington Books. 

• Brooms, Derrick. 2017. Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences.SUNY Press. 

• Davis, Shannon N., Sarah Winslow, and David J. Maume (eds.). 2017. Gender in the Twenty-First Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality. University of California Press.

• Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun (eds.). 2016. What to Expect and How to Respond: Distress and Success in Academia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

• Casanova, Erynn Masi de. 2015. Buttoned Up: Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity. Cornell University Press. 

• Wright II, Earl. 2015. The First American School of Sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Routledge.

• Wright II, Earl and Edward V. Wallace. 2015. The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology. Routledge.

• Jafar, Afshan and Erynn Masi de Casanova (eds.). 2013. Global Beauty, Local Bodies. Palgrave McMillan.

• Casanova, Erynn Masi de and Afshan Jafar (eds.). 2013. Bodies Without Borders. Palgrave McMillan.

• Penm, Jonathan; Neil MacKinnon, Rebecca Mashni, Michael Lyons, Edmond Hooker, Erin Winstanley, Steve Carlton-Ford, Chloe Connelly, Erica Tolle, Jill Boone, Kathleen Koechlin, and Jolene Defiore-Hyrmer. In Press. “Emergency Physicians Perception of Barriers and Facilitators for Adopting an Opioid Prescribing Guideline in Ohio: A Qualitative Interview Study.” Journal of Emergency Medicine. Available October 17, 2018 doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2018.09.005
• Carlton-Ford, Steve, Katherine A. Durante, T. David Evans, Ciera Graham. 2019. “Guns and Butter: Child Mortality and the Mediators of Militarization.” Armed Forces & Society 45(1):177-197. Available online March 11, 2018 doi.org/10.1177/0095327X18758288
• Penm, Jonathan, Neil J. MacKinnon, Rebecca Mashni, Michael S. Lyons, Edmond A. Hooker, Erin Winstanley, Steve Carlton-Ford, Chloe Connelly, Erica Tolle,Jill Boone, Kathleen Koechlin, and Jolene Defiore-Hyrmer. 2018. "A State-wide Cross Sectional Survey of Emergency Departments’ Adoption and Implementation of the Ohio Opioid Prescribing Guidelines and Opioid Prescribing Practices.” BMJ Open. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020477.
• Linders, Annulla. 2018. "The 2018 NCSA presidential address: the audience of executions." Sociological Focus.
• Brooms, Derrick R., Jelisa Clark, Matthew Smith. 2018. Empowering Men of Color on Campus: Building Student Community in Higher Education.Rutgers University Press.
• Timberlake, Jeffrey M. 2018. “Accounting for Preferences and Demography: Estimates of Residential Segregation with Minimum Segregation Measures.” Social Sciences 7:1-20.
• Bessett, Danielle and Stef Murawsky. 2018. "'I guess I do have to take back what I said before, about television': pregnant women's understandings and use of televisual representations of childbearing."Sociology of Health & Illness 40(3): 478-493.
• Rajack-Talley, Theresa and Derrick R. Brooms (Eds.). 2018. Living Racism: Through the Barrel of the Book. Lexington Books. 
• Bessett, Danielle and Stef Murawsky. 2018. "As Seen on TV: Women's Perceptions of Television's Effects on Pregnancy and Birth Knowledge." Sociology of Health & Illness 40(3).
• Othman, Jihad (Rosty) and Annulla Linders. 2018. "Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health." Qualitative Sociology Review XIV (1): 30-50.

Bates, Littisha A. and Paul D. Anderson. 2014. "Do Expectations Make the Difference? A Look at Educational Expectations and Academic Performance on College Enrollment." Race and Social Problems.

Bommeraju, Aalap, Melody Hou, Megan Kavanaugh, and Danielle Bessett. 2016. "Situating stigma in stratefied reproduction: Abortion stigma and miscarriage stigma as barriers to reproductive healthcare." Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare.

Bommaraju, Aalap, Jennifer Malat, Jennifer Mooney. 2015. "Reproductive Life Plan Counseling and Effective Contraceptive Use among Urban Women Utilizing Title X Services." Women's Health Issues.

Carter, Jennifer, Erynn Masi de Casanova, David J. Maume. 2015. "Gendering Olympians: Olympic Media Guide Profiles of Men and Women Athletes." Sociology of Sport Journal.

Carter, J.A. 2013. Scientific Motherhood. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Malat, Jennifer and Kelli Chapman. 2017. "The Effect of Age and Childhood Social Class on Preference for New Healthcare Practices." Sociological Focus50(2): 1-15. 

Chapman, Kelli. Day Labor. 2014. In Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Chapman, Kelli. Domestic Work. 2014. In Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Chapman, Kelli. Prostitution. 2014. In Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Rick Phillips and Ryan Cragun. 2013. Contemporary Mormon Religiosity and the Legacy of “Gathering.” Nova Religio 16(3):77-94.

Green, Aaryn and Anulla Linders. 2016. "The Impact of Comedy on Racial and Ethnic Discourse." Sociological Inquiry 86(2): 241-269.

Howell, Aaron J. and Jeffrey M. Timberlake. 2014. “Racial and Ethnic Trends in the Suburbanization of Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980 to 2010.” Journal of Urban Affairs.

Timberlake, Jeffrey M. and Elaina Johns-Wolfe. 2017. "Neighborhood Ethnoracial Composition and Gentrification in Chicago and New York, 1980 to 2010." Urban Affairs Review.

Bessett, Danielle and Stef Murawsky. 2018. "As Seen on TV: Women's Perceptions of Television's Effects on Pregnancy and Birth Knowledge." Sociology of Health & Illness 40(3). 

Purcell, David. 2013. Baseball, Beer, and Bulgari: Examining Cultural Capital and Gender Inequality in a Retail Fashion Corporation. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 47(3):291-319.

David Purcell. 2013. Sociology, Teaching, and Reflective Practice: Using Writing to Improve. Teaching Sociology 41(1):5-19.

Rosino, Michael. 2013. "ABC-X Model of Family Stress and Coping." In Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.

Spiker, Russell. 2013. Mental Health and Marital Status. In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia on Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Wiley-Blackwell.

Stooksberry, Jodi N. Cosmetic Surgery. 2014.The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health and Society. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Talukdar, Jaita and Annulla Linders. 2013. "Gender, Class Aspirations, and Emerging Fields of Body Work in Urban India." Qualitative Sociology 36:101-123.

Underhill, Megan. Marital Quality of Adult Children and Parental Influence. 2014.Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. 

Two of our PhD students won Dissertation Fellowships for 2014-15 from the Taft Research Center: Ciera Graham, for her study, Black Spaces at White Insitutions: How Do Black Students Perceive and Utilize Black Student Campus Organizations at Predominately White Urban and Rural Insitutions? and Aaryn Green for Color TV: Does Popular Television Programming Simultaneously Promote Colorblindness and Nonwhite Racial Stereotypes and If So, How?

• Steven Carlton-Ford: voted Chari-Elect of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association. 

• Littisha Bates: named a 2017 Rising Star by the YWCA Academy of Career Women of Achievement and handpicked to receive the Terry Kershaw Social Justice and Legacy Award

• Danielle Bessett: recipient of the Student Choice Award for Woman of the Year, recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Medical Sociology ASA section

• Erynn Casanova: elected President of the Ecuadorian Studies Section of the LAtin American Studies Association (LASA).

• Annulla Linders: President of the North Central Sociological Association (2017-2018), Editor of Sociological Focus, and Co-Editor (with Earl Wright II) of Social Problems starting in June 2018

• David Maume: elected by the Fellows of the Graduate School as one of its Fellows

• Earl Wright II: Co-Editor (with Annulla Linders) of Social Problems starting in June 2018