Research

Selected Faculty Publications

Giuffre, Katherine. 2010. "Half the Right People: Network Density and Creativity." Culture Unbound 2:819-846.

Giuffre, Katherine. 2010. "The Return of the Natives: Globalization and Negative Ties." Poetics 37(4):333-347

Pascoe, C.J., et al. 2009. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out MIT Press.

Murphy-Geiss, Gail, Dana Rosenfeld and Lara Foley. 2010. "Midwifery as Established Sect: An Expanded Application of the Church-Sect Continuum." Community, Work and Family. 13(1):101-122.

Roberts, Wade T., Lisa M. Martinez, and Sophie Kauffman. (forthcoming). "Race/Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health: The Mediating Role of Social Trust." Sociological Focus.

Murphy-Geiss, Gail. 2010. "Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts." 21st Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, and Agency.. Edited by Andrea O'Reilly. NY: Columbia University Press.

Giuffre, Katherine. 2009. Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Gallmeyer, Alice and Wade T. Roberts. 2009. "Payday Lenders and Economically Distressed Communities: A Spatial Analysis of Financial Predation." The Social Science Journal 46(3):521-538.

Roberts, Wade T. 2009. "World Society, Family Planning Programs, and the Health of Children." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 29(7/8):414-425.

Murphy-Geiss, Gail. 2008. "Bringing the Facts to Life: Facilitating Student Engagement with the Issue of Domestic Violence." Teaching Sociology 36(4).

Roger Waldinger, Eric Popkin, and Hector Aquiles Magana. 2008. "Conflict and Contestation in the Cross-Border Community: Hometown Associations Reassessed," Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(5):843-870.

Pascoe, C.J. 2007. Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. University of California Press. Winner of the American Education Research Association 2008 Outstanding Book Award.

Pascoe, C.J. 2007. "What if a Guy Hits on You?" Intersections of Gender, Sexuality and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents" in Representing Youth: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Youth Studies, edited by Amy Best. New York: New York University Press.

Murphy-Geiss, Gail. 2007. "Hospitable or Hostile Environment: Sexual Harassment in the United Methodist Church." Review of Religious Research 48:260-272.

Roberts, Wade (with Eric Perramond and Chris Jackson). 2007. "Lesson, Outreach, and Research: Three Models of Undergraduate Research at a Liberal Arts College." CUR Quarterly 27(3).

Roberts, Wade (with Tim Bartley). 2006. "Relational Exploitation: The Informal Organization of Day Labor Agencies." Working USA 9:41-58.

Livesay, Jeff. 2006. "A Fair Wage for Staff in Colorado" Academe 92:50-51.

Popkin, Eric. 2005. "The Emergence of Pan-Mayan Ethnicity in the Guatamalan Transnational Community Linking Santa Eulalia and Los Angeles." Current Sociology 53:675-706.

Roberts, Wade T. 2005. "The Uneven Globalization of Civil Society and the Consequences for Cross-National Disparities in Human Development." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 25:118-114.

Roberts, Wade T. and Tim Bartley. 2004. "The Wages of Day Labor: Homeless Workers in the Temporary Help Industry." Journal of Poverty 8(3):65-89.

Livesay, Jeff. 2003. "The Duality of Systems: Networks as Media and Outcomes of Movement Mobilization." Current Perspectives in Social Theory 22:185-221.

Popkin, Eric. 2003. "Transnational Migration and Development in Postwar Peripheral States: An Examination of Guatemalan and Salvadoran State Linkages with Their Migrant Populations in Los Angeles." Current Sociology 51:347-374.

Wong, Sandra. 2002. Managing Diversity: Institutions and the Politics of Educational Change. Rowman & Littlefield.

Giuffre, Katherine. 2001. "Mental Maps: Social Networks and the Language of Critical Reviews." Sociological Inquiry 71:381-393.

Working Papers

Roberts, Wade T. "Democracy and the Demographics of Development: A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries." (under review)

Murphy-Geiss, Gail and Kathleen Denny. "White Man with Beads: Resistance and Rage in Unrestrained Racial Discourse"(journal article under review)

Murphy-Geiss, Gail and Barbara Paradiso. "Asking the Right Questions about Domestic Violence: An Action Research Agenda from Lamar, CO" (research report in final draft stages)

Murphy-Geiss, Gail and Hee An Choi. "United Methodist Racial Ethnic Clergywomen's Salaries and Job Trajectories" (3-ish years long project, just started in August)

Murphy-Geiss, Gail. "Christianity and Mothers" and "Islam and Motherhood" entries for the Encyclopedia of Motherhood, Sage. (due in January 2009)