
Sociology at ASU
Publications
ASU sociologists publish on a wide variety of topics.
With special strength in immigration, cities, law, justice, human rights, work, democracy, climate and sustainability, innovation, development, gender, and identities, including nationalism and ethnicity.

Indigenous Research Design: Transnational Perspectives in Practice (2023)
By Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Nathan D. Martin (editors)

A Displaced, Unsettled Political Subject: Kurdish Women’s Struggles in Europe (2023)
By Nisa Göksel
in Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey, edited by Ayça Alemdaroğlu and Fatma Müge Göçek,

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy (2023)
By Jennifer Carlson

Examining Impostor Phenomenon Through the Lens of Humility: Spotlighting Conceptual (Dis)Connections (2023)
By Barret Michalec, Abigail Gómez-Morales, Jon C Tilburt, Frederic W Hafferty

Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital (2023)
By Barret Michalec and Frederic W Hafferty

Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative to Studying Historical Change (2023)
by Paul C. Luken, Suzanne Vaughan (editors)

Research Handbook on Intersectionality (2023)
Editor Mary Romero
Edward Elgar Publishing, Sociology Series

Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico (2023)
by Casandra D. Salgado
in Social Problems

“Legal exhaustion” and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s (2022)
By Nisa Göksel and Jaimie Morse
in Special Issue: Human Rights on the Edge: The Future of International Human Rights Law & Practice. Journal of Human Rights

The Green New Deal (2022)
Edited by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong

Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (2022)
By Benjamin S. Case

Degenerations of Democracy (2022)
By Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Charles Taylor

Special Issue: China’s Borderlands in the Post-Globalization Era (2022)
Editors Romero, Mary. and Tianlong You
in China Information

One Hand does not Bring up a Child:’ Child Fostering Among Single Mothers in Nairobi’s Slums. (2022)
By Cassandra Cotton, Shelley Clark, Sangeetha Madhavan
in Demographic Research

Trapped in a Maze (2021)
By Leslie Paik

An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in sub-Saharan Africa (2021)
By Cassandra Cotton
in Population & Development Review

We’re Not All Anti-Choices’: How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy (2021)
By Rocio R. García
in Sociological Perspectives
2023 Winner of PSA Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award

Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography (2020)
By Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan (editors)

Latinx Feminist Politicmaking: On the Necessity of Messiness in Collective Action. (2020)
By Rocío R. García
in Mobilization: An International Quarterly (lead article)
- 2022 Winner of SSSP Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award
- 2021 Winner of ASA Section on Latina/Latino Sociology Distinguished Research Article Award
- 2019 Winner of ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class Graduate Student Paper Award

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies: Local Solutions and Global Opportunities (2020)
Sumida Huaman, Elizabeth and Nathan D. Martin (editors)

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (2020)
By Jennifer Carlson

Latino Parents’ Links to Deportees are Associated with Developmental Disorders in their Children (2019)
By Edward D. Vargas, and Benitez L. Viridiana
in Journal of Community Psychology

Critical ‘street race’ praxis: advancing the measurement of racial discrimination among diverse Latinx communities in the U.S. (2019)
By Edward D. Vargas, Melina Juarez, Lisa Cacari-Stone, and Nancy Lopez.
in Critical Public Health

Citizens but not Americans (2017)
By Nilda Flores-Gonazalez

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective (2017)
By José B. Ashford, Craig W. LeCroy and Lela Rankin

Democratizing Inequalities Dilemmas of the New Public Participation (2015)
Edited by Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie and Edward T. Walker