American Mosaic Project Publications

Working Papers

This list is a selection of papers our students, alumni, and faculty are working on. These papers are in-progress or have already been submitted to journals, and many of our papers have been presented at national conferences including The American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Annual Meeting and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

  • "Religion and Racial Inequality Attitudes" by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, Shania Kuo, and Penny Edgell

  • "Race, Religion, and Public Sentiment on Reparations" by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, Lena Kunjan, and Penny Edgell

  • "Politicized Views of (Non)religious Groups in the U.S." by Penny Edgell, Anastasia Dulle, Jacqui Frost

  • “Religious/Spiritual/Both/Neither: How Americans Feel About ‘Organized Religion’” by Penny Edgell, Mallory Harrington, Jacqui Frost

  • "The Racialized Effects of Christian Nationalism: Disparate Attitudes on Economic Inequality and Opportunity in the United States" by Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Penny Edgell

  • "Partisanship or Ideology? Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Among Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans" by Shania Kuo, Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, Douglas Hartmann

  • "Asian American Symbolic Boundary-Making: Revisiting Racial Triangulation" by Shania Kuo, Francesca Bernardino, Douglas Hartmann

  • "Who is the Trans-Exclusionary “Regular” Feminist? Mapping Feminism’s Inflection Points within the 21st Century Culture Wars" by Jason Torkleson and Jordyn Wald

  • "Age, Religion, and Attitudes about Gender and Family: Shifting Gears and Generational Realignment" by Jordyn Wald, Penny Edgell, Jacqui Frost

  • "Restricting Individuals with Criminal Backgrounds: An Extension of Symbolic Boundary Analyses" by Ryan Larson, Eleanor Nickel

  • "'Happy Talk' No Longer? Tracking Changes and Persistent Patterns in Americans' Attitudes toward Diversity" by Douglas Hartmann and Neeraj Rajasekar

  • "Right Leaning Populism and Polarization" by Douglas Hartmann, Paul Croll, Joe Gerteis, and Penny Edgell

  • "Fixed-Choice and Open-Ended Racial Identifications" by Paul Croll, Joe Gerteis

  • "Documenting White Nationalists' Wider Racial Ideologies and Demographics" by Jason Torkelson, Joe Gerteis, and Doug Hartmann

Selected Publications (2020 - present)

Edgell, Penny, Evan Stewart, Sarah Catherine Billups, and Ryan Larson. 2020. “The Stakes of Symbolic Boundaries.” The Sociological Quarterly 61(2):309–33. 

Gerteis, Joseph and Douglas Hartmann, and Penny Edgell. 2020. “Racial, Religious, and Civic Dimensions of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America.” Social Problems 67(4): 719–740.

Gerteis, Joseph and Nir Rotem. 2023. “Connecting the ‘Others’: White Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Views in America.” The Sociological Quarterly 64(1): 144–164.

Hamilton, Amber, Ryan Larson, and Douglas Hartmann. 2022. “Assessing and Extending Colorblind Racism Theory Using National Survey Data.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8(2): 267–283.

Hartmann, Douglas and Jason Torkelson. 2020. “The Racialization of Ethnicity: The New Face of White Ethnicity in Postmillennial America.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 6(3): 302–318.

Rajasekar, Neeraj and Douglas Hartmann. 2025. “Multiculturalism, American Style: Diversity and the Politics of Race, Rights, Colorblindness, and Resentment.” Pp. 155–182 in Multiculturalism on the Mend? The Political Left and Ethnic Minorities in Liberal Democracies, edited by Arjun Tremblay and Paul May. Palgrave MacMillan.

Rajasekar, Neeraj, Matthew Auguilar-Champeau, and Douglas Hartmann. 2022. “Diversity Discourse as Racialized and Double-Edged: Findings from a National Survey.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8(2): 315–332.

Rajasekar, Neeraj, Evan Stewart, and Douglas Hartmann. 2025. “Principle-Policy and Principle-Personal Gaps in America’s Diversity Attitudes.” DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race 22(1): 1–27.

Rajasekar, Neeraj, Evan Stewart, and Joseph Gerteis. 2022. “Assessing Local ‘Diversity’: A Nationally Representative Analysis.” Social Currents 9(2):139–58.
 

Stewart, Evan, Penny Edgell, and Jack Delehanty. 2025. “Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes.” Social Problems 72(1): 226–44.

Torkelson, Jason, Alex Parton, Joseph Gerteis, and Evan Gunderson. 2025. “The Racialized American Dream: Predictors for the 21st Century.” The Sociological Quarterly 66(1):52–76.
 
Torkelson, Jason, Benjamin Hartmann, and Douglas Hartmann. 2026. “Mapping and Assessing Racial Schema in the United States: A New Three-Class Model.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 0(0):1–25.
 

Torkelson, Jason and Douglas Hartmann. 2021. “The Heart of Whiteness: On the Study of Whiteness and White Americans.” Sociology Compass 15(11): e12932.

Previous Publications

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