A Year in Review: Featured Publications, Presentations, & More

Featured Publications

COVID-19 and Social Inequalities

Pais, Jeremy, Andrew Deener, Mary J. Fischer & Zachary D. Kline. 2022. Shelter at Home, if You Can:” Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. The Sociological Quarterly, 63:3, 562-589. 

Roy, Rianka. 2023. “Don’t Panic! Reach Us: Indian Tech Unions’ Social Media Narratives during the Pandemic.” In Media Narratives during the Pandemic, edited by Shubhda Arora and Keval Kumar. Routledge.

Talbert, Ryan D., and Brittany N. Hearne. 2022. “Household Income Loss, Marital Status, and Mental Health: Ethnoracial Contrasts during COVID-19.” Sociological Imagination 58(2):61–77.

Racism and Ethnic Relations Here and Abroad

Williams, Johnny E., and David G. Embrick. “Moving beyond obfuscating racial microaggression discourse.” Social Inclusion 11.2 (2023): 5-15.

Embrick, David G., and Johnny Eric Williams. “Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians.” Critical Sociology (2023): 08969205231172730.

Talbert, Ryan D. 2022. “Lethal Police Encounters and Cardiovascular Health among Black Americans.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (Impact: 3.52; H-Index: 30).

Politics, Human Rights and Immigration

Glasberg, Davita Silfen, William T. Armaline, and Bandana Purkayastha. 2022. “‘I Exist, therefore I should Vote:’ Political Human Rights, Voter Suppression and Undermining Democracy in the U.S.” Societies without Borders, 16(1):20-47.

Glasberg, Davita Silfen  and Matthew Hughey, 2023. “Epistemic Violence and Human Rights in the American Academy.” Emancipatory Human Rights and the University, edited by Andre Keets.

Willis, Abbey, Mary Burke and Davita Silfen Glasberg, 2022. “The Scarborough 11: Human Rights and the State Project of Families.” Societies without Borders, 16(1):48-73.

Voyer, Andrea, Kline, Zachary D., Danton, Madison, & Volkova, Tatiana. 2022. “From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream.” Sociological Methods & Research, 51(4), 1540–1579.

Gender, Sexualities and Intersectionality

Bernstein, Mary. 2022. “Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?” In Rethinking Law, edited by Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen. Cambridge: Boston Review.

Christie-Mizell, C. André, Brittany N. Hearne, Ryan D. Talbert, and Cleothia G. Frazier. 2023. “Romantic Relationships, Parenthood, and the Personal Sense of Mastery: The Consequences of Gender during Young Adulthood.” Sociological Focus 56(2):172–91.

Munsch, Christin L., Lindsey T. O’Connor, and Susan R. Fisk. “Gender and the Disparate Payoffs of Overwork.” Social Psychology Quarterly (2023): 01902725221141059.

Kalinowski, Jolaade, Ryan D. Talbert, Brandy Woods, Haile Eshe Cole, Cindy Crusto, and Jacquelyn Y. Taylor. 2022. “Associations between Police Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms in African American Women in the Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and Psychological Factors on Blood Pressure Study.” Health Equity 6(1):527–32.

Talbert, Ryan D., and Emma D. Macy. 2022. “Former Incarceration, Time Served, and Oral Health among African American Women and Men.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(19):12906.

Science, Technology and the Social World

Atsbeha, Ezana Amdework, Elizabeth Holzer, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Paul Block, Sarah Alexander, Selam Esayas Negatu, and Kristen Kirksey. “Probability Games, Workshops, and the Social World of International Science Communication.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103, no. 8 (2022): E1747-E1761.

Hall, Rhys. 2023. “Special Issue: Racism & Sexism in Virtual Comic & Gaming Environments” Guest Editor- Sociation Vol 22 (1). New Issues & Articles.

Roy, Rianka, Josef Ma, and Simon Cheng. 2023. “Digital Divide and Youth Development in the Early Twenty-first Century.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems.

Professional Presentations & Conferences

 

Aboumahboob, Jasmine L., and Ryan D. Talbert. 2022. “Pulmonary Circulatory Outcomes: The Impact of Courthouse Confederate Monuments on African American Adults.” Midsouth Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Greene, Bryan. June 22, 2023: Centre for Frontier Questions Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland).

Greene, Bryan. June 14, 2023: Department Speaker Series, Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland).

Greene, Bryan. May 18-19, 2023: Conference Presenter; “Theorizing Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Central, Eastern, Southeastern Europe and Eurasia” Maynooth University Centre for European and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Anthropology (Maynooth, Ireland).

Greene, Bryan. May 11, 2023: Workshop Leader; “Publishing in American Journals: The Basics” Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland).

Greene, Bryan. March 27-28, 2023: Winter Symposium Presenter; Whiteness and racialization in/between East and West: “Racialization, Whiteness and Politics of Othering in Contemporary Europe” Nordic Summer University/Roskilde University, (Roskilde, Denmark).

Greene, Bryan. January 26, 2023: Paper Presentation Entitled “A Safe Space for Black/Afro-Poles: A Virtual Ethnography” 7th World Conference on Qualitative Research (Algarve, Portugal).

Greene, Bryan. November 15, 2022: Doctoral Research Seminar for Dr. Agnieszka Koscianska, Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland).

Jackson, Carol Ann. 2023. “America Stop Gaslighting Me.” Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Conference (FWCA) (District of Columbia).

Jackson, Carol Ann. 2022. Session Organizer and Panelist, “Body Liberation.” ESS/ SWS East Mini Conference (Virtual).

Jackson, Carol Ann. 2022. Session Organizer and Panelist, “First Generation Insights.” ESS/ SWS East Mini Conference (Virtual).

Macy, Emma D., and Ryan D. Talbert. 2022. “Incarceration Experience, Time Served, and Dental Health Disparities among African Americans.” Midsouth Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Monte, Brianna F., and Ryan D. Talbert. 2022. “Personal Incarceration, Familial Imprisonment, and the Racialized Self-Concept among Black Men and Women.” Midsouth Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Oo, Hnin, Antarpreet Kaur, Jane Reardon, Ryan D. Talbert, Osama Elsankary, and Richard ZuWallack. 2022. “Suboptimal Uptake of Outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation following Discharge for a COPD Exacerbation.” American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Rivera, Jade K., and Ryan D. Talbert. 2022. “Incarceration and Mental Health among Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Adults in the U.S.” Midsouth Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Roy, Rianka. 2023. Delegate, Sociologists for Women in Society (International Committee), 67th Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations (New York).

Talbert, Ryan (Panelist). 2023. “InCHIP Undergrad Research Academy.” Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy, University of Connecticut.

Talbert, Ryan (Co-Presenter). 2022. “Introduction to the Academic Job Market.” Department of Sociology Graduate Proseminar, University of Connecticut.

Talbert, Ryan D., Jolaade Kalinowski, and Jasmine Aboumahboob. 2023. “Neighborhood Police Stations, Negative Police Stops, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Myrtle Beach, SC.

Talbert, Ryan D., Jolaade Kalinowski, and Jasmine Aboumahboob. 2023. “Racial Socialization, Police Stops, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Talbert, Ryan D., and Jasmine Aboumahboob. 2022. “Courthouse Confederate Monuments, Age, and Pulmonary Circulatory Outcomes among African Americans.” American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Talbert, Ryan D., Jolaade Kalinowski, and Dongni Liu. 2022. “Fatal Police Encounters and Disparities in Mental and Physical Health across Time.” American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Yorks, Jessica. 2022. Session Organizer and Panelist, “Body Liberation.” ESS/ SWS East Mini Conference (Virtual).

Yorks, Jessica. 2022. Session Organizer and Panelist, “First Generation Insights.” ESS/ SWS East Mini Conference (Virtual).

Media Coverage, Op-eds, Podcasts, Interviews, and Documentaries

 

Bernstein, Mary. 2022 Podcast. Featured Guest, Overcoming the Divide: Nonpartisan Politics. “Gun: Violence, Rights, and Reform with Mary Bernstein, PhD.” June 25th.

Bernstein, Mary. 2022 “Standing Against Despair: UConn researchers offer tools and perspectives to reduce gun violence in the US” by Tom Breen, Jaclyn Severance, and Kimberly Phillips. UConn Today, May 26.

Bernstein, Mary. 2022 Podcast. Featured Guest, Lithuanian National Radio, “Gun Violence Prevention.” June 6, 2022.

Bernstein, Mary. 2022 WEAA, 88.9 Baltimore. Featured Guest on Gun Violence Prevention after Uvalde, “Two Way Talk” radio show. May 26, 4-4:30 pm.

Bernstein, Mary. 2022. “Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?” In Rethinking Law, edited by Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen. Cambridge: Boston Review.

Bernstein, Mary. 2022. “Queer Liberation, In and Out of the Law.” Pp. 123-131 in Rethinking Law, edited by Amy Kapczynski. Cambridge. Boston Review. (Adapted from “Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?”)

Bernstein, Mary. 2023 The Front “Students call for WWU to divest in the gun industry.” April 12.

Bernstein, Mary. 2023 Center for Urban Pedagogy Documentary: “Respect-NYC.” Featured guest/academic.

Bernstein, Mary. 2023 NBC/WVIT News. Interview 5:30 pm news, regarding the mass shooting in Nashville Tennessee. March 27th.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2022. “In Branson, God and country serve as red, white and blue comfort food” By Bob Smietana, Religion News Service.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2022. “Anti-IRS fearmongering, ‘law and order’ and the GOP,” New York Daily News.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2022. “How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ is being used to mobilize conservative religious voters,” The Conversation.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2022. “Why a Group of Christians Is Fighting the Growing Threat of Christian Nationalism” By Vera Bergengruen, – Time Magazine.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2022. “How did Republican fearmongering about an IRS ‘shadow army’ go mainstream?” The Guardian.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2023. “Christian nationalists have provoked a pluralist resistance,” April 21, Religion News Service.

Braunstein, Ruth. March 1, 2023 | “Evangelicals’ Dangerous Amnesia” The Soul of the Nation with Jim Wallis.

Braunstein, Ruth. 2023. “Christian nationalists have awoken a fierce Christian resistance movement: report” By Matthew Chapman, – Raw Story