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.

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Indigenous Research Design: Transnational Perspectives in Practice (2023)

 

By Elizabeth Sumida Huaman,  Nathan D. Martin (editors)

 

 

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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,

 

 

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

By Jennifer Carlson

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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

 

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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

 

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Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative to Studying Historical Change (2023)

 

by Paul C. Luken, Suzanne Vaughan (editors)

 

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Research Handbook on Intersectionality (2023)

 

Editor Mary Romero

Edward Elgar Publishing, Sociology Series

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Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico (2023)

 

by Casandra D. Salgado

in Social Problems

 

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“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

 

 

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The Green New Deal (2022)

Edited by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong

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Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (2022)

By Benjamin S. Case

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Degenerations of Democracy (2022)

By Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Charles Taylor

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Special Issue: China’s Borderlands in the Post-Globalization Era (2022)

 

Editors Romero, Mary. and Tianlong You

in China Information

 

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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

 

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Trapped in a Maze (2021)

By Leslie Paik

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An Enduring Institution? Child Fostering in sub-Saharan Africa (2021)

 

By Cassandra Cotton

in Population & Development Review

 

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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

 

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Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography (2020)

 

By Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan (editors)

 

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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

 

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 Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies: Local Solutions and Global Opportunities (2020)

 

Sumida Huaman, Elizabeth and Nathan D. Martin (editors) 

 

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

By Jennifer Carlson

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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

 

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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

 

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Citizens but not Americans (2017)

By Nilda Flores-Gonazalez

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Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective (2017)

By José B. Ashford, Craig W. LeCroy and Lela Rankin

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Democratizing Inequalities Dilemmas of the New Public Participation (2015)

Edited by Caroline W. Lee, Michael McQuarrie and Edward T. Walker