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2026

Luetke, Maya, Signe Svallfors, and Elizabeth Heger Boyle. 2026. "Measuring the impact of armed conflict on population health: A guide for researchers," Population & Development Review, online ahead of print.

Finlay, M. Jessica , David Rigby, Amber DeJohn, Yue Sun, Brigette A. Davis, Arwa Aldulaimy, Desiree Alvarez-McNelis, Ainsley Bowie, Karis Hawkins, Zhe Lin, Weining Kan, Taylor S. Ketterhagen, Xinyu Lin, Stephen B. Liwur, Mallory Sagehorn, Laine Sullivan, Lucy Vaughan, Shangrui Zhu, Ania Berry, Margaret T. Hicken, Michael H. Esposito. 2026. "Measuring 'third places': Comparing neighborhood data for cognitive health research," Alzheimer's & Dementia, 22(5):e71412.

Savard, Grace M., Mallory A.P. Sagehorn, Desiree L. Alvarez-McNelis, Michael H. Esposito, and Jessica M. Finlay. 2026. "Drive with me: Utilizing car-based mobile interviews to investigate place and health," SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 9:100725.

Sun, Yue, and Michael H. Esposito. 2026. "How do counties’ industrial structures shape geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?" Social Science & Medicine, 392:118960.

Jessica Finlay, Grace Savard, Desiree Alvarez-McNelis, Mallory Sagehorn, Grace Bowman, Yue Sun, and Michael Esposito. 2026, "Cognability across adulthood: A qualitative investigation of neighborhoods and cognitive health behaviors," Social Science & Medicine, 392:118971.

Torkelson, Jason, Benjamin Hartmann, & Douglas Hartmann. 2026. "Mapping and assessing racial schema in the United States: a new three-class model," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–25

Christian, Lisa, Rebecca Andridge, Juan Peng, Nithya P. Kasibhatla, Thomas W. McDade, Tessa Blevins, Steve W. Cole, Wendy D. Manning, and Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2026. "Sexual minority adults exhibit greater inflammation than heterosexual adults in the context of depressive symptoms and anxiety: Pathways to health disparities," Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 133:106202.

Rice Wallace, T. M., Chalandra M. Bryant, and Claire Kamp Dush. 2026. “Multidimensional racism-related stress and the undermining of black romantic relationships,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 88(2):413-424.

Morgan, Ethan, Claire M. Kamp Dush, Thomas W. McDade, Juan Peng, Rebecca R. Andridge, Steve W. Cole, Wendy Manning, and Lisa M. Christian. 2026. ""Corrigendum to 'LGBTQ+ identity and its association with inflammation and cellular immune function,'" Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 106488.

Liebler, Carolyn A. 2026, "Accounting for race response change in population projections: A research note," Demography, 63(2):419–433.  

Phelps, Michelle, and Hannah Schwendeman. 2026. “Forty-some years I’ve been on paper”: Navigating probation in later adulthood, Punishment & Society, online ahead of print.

Larson, Ryan P.,  James A. Densley, Jillian K. Peterson, Jaycee Manchi, N. Jeanie Santaularia, Christopher E. Robertson, & Christopher Uggen. 2026. "The changing nature of homicide in the Twin Cities: An interrupted time series analysis of the police murder of George Floyd," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, online ahead of print.

Horowitz, Veronica, Patrick Nolan, Christopher Uggen, Jordan M. Hyatt, and Synøve N. Andersen. 2026. "Considering the pervasiveness of the 'danger imperative' in prisons: Perspectives from reform-oriented correctional officers," Punishment & Society, online ahead of print.

Larson, Ryan, Robert Stewart, Veronica Horowitz, Christopher Uggen. 2026. "The racialized packaging of punishment: An instrumental variables approach to incarceration, probation, and monetary sanctions," Criminology, 1–40.

Tanveer, Maryam, Ryan P. Larson, Christopher E. Robertson, Christopher Uggen, & N. Jeanie Santaularia Gomez. 2026. "Cumulative exposure to police-involved shootings and mental health conditions in Minneapolis, Minnesota," Journal of Urban Health, online ahead of print.

Mukherjee Shibashis & Jane S. VanHeuvelen. 2026. "Behavioral vs. cognitive: Expanded definitions of coping and stigma resistance," Social Science & Medicine, online ahead of print.

Warren, John Robert, Gina Rumore, Kamil Sicinski, Pamela Herd, and Michal Engelman. 2026. "Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study," PNAS, 123(16):e2536005123.

Karnik, Harshada, Zachary Levin, Jovin Lasway, Jonathon P. Leider, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. 2026. "Quality of causes of death data in Minnesota from 2011 to 2021 – A descriptive analysis of the usage and correlates of garbage codes," Public Health in Practice, 1:100746.

Kiang, Mathew V., Zehang Richard Li, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Rafeya V. Raquib, Dielle J. Lundberg, Eugenio Paglino, Benjamin Huynh, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M. Maria Glymour, and Andrew C. Stokes. 2026. "Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States," Science Advances, 12(12).

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2026. "Taking heterogeneity seriously: black immigrant life expectancy in the United States," American Journal of Epidemiology, kwag108. 

Steele, Lauren E, Andrea M Tilstra, Kirsty R Short, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. 2026. "Age-specific mortality patterns across influenza pandemics: evidence from all-cause mortality data across multiple populations," International Journal of Epidemiology, 55(3):dyag061.

2025

Connor, Jennifer Jo, Kalthum Abdikeir, Nicole Chaisson, Sonya S. Brady, Muzi Chen, Cawo Abdi,et al. 2025. "Discerning deinfibulation: Impact of personal, professional, and familial influences on decision-making," Qualitative Health Research: Sage Journal, 35(2):234-247.

Connor, Jennifer J., Zahra Sheik, Shannon Pergament, Cawo Abdi, et al. 2025. "The 10-step cross-cultural equivalence process for developing measures for culturally informed research," Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 6(4):1-27.

Cai, Meng, Suxia Li & Yanjie Bian. 2025. "The mechanisms of social network on subjective well-being from a life course perspective: the mediating role of individual resilience," BMC Psychology, 13(1):141.

Bolgrien, Anna, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Mehr Munir, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, et al. 2025. "Orphan discipline and child neglect: An analysis from 48 countries," Child Abuse & Neglect, 163:107353.

Munir, Mehr, Anna Bolgrien, and Elizabeth Heger Boyle. 2025. “The effect of father-child engagement on maternal life satisfaction in South Asian contexts: Evidence from MICS surveys in Pakistan and Bangladesh,” Frontiers in Sociology, 10:1716756.

Chang, Olivia D., Julie Ma, Kaitlin Ward, Dana McCoy, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, et al. 2025. “How does context shape differences and changes in caregivers' engagement in psychosocial stimulation over time? A study of Georgia and Mongolia,” International Journal of Behavioral Development.

Bolgrien, Anna, Mehr Munir, Attila Hancioglu, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, et al. 2025. “Harmonized data from household surveys on the status and well-being of children, adolescents, and their families—MICS and IPUMS MICS," Population, 80(1):67-78. 

Ma, Julie, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Kaitlin Ward, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, et al. 2025. “Spillover of macro-level violence to parental physical abuse of children in low- and middle-income countries,” Child Abuse & Neglect, 164:107468.

Cornelius, Eduardo. 2025. “Democratizing punishment”? Federal prosecutors’ new anticorruption project and the Brazilian penal field," International Journal of the Legal Profession, 32(1):141-165. 

Cueto-Villalobos, Daniel, Laura Gilbertson, and Penny Edgell. 2025. "'There wasn't a playbook for this': Local congregations and the crises of 2020," Sociology of Religion. 

Frost, J., Penny Edgell, and M. Miller. 2025. "Varieties of nonreligious experience: Expanding understandings of nonreligious wellbeing," Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(5):e70060.

Karakaya, Yagmur, Penny Edgell. 2025. "The curious transformation of 'Critical Race Theory” to “CRT”: The role of election campaigns in American culture wars," Poetics, 108:101964.

Sun, Yue, Michael H. Esposito, Mallory Sagehorn, Robert A. Melendez, et al. 2025. "Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in ‘third place’ availability across the United States from 2010 to 2021," Health & Place, 96:103583.

Rigbya, David, Michael H. Esposito, Tyson H. Brown, Hedwig Lee, and Sierra Clark. 2025. "Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: sundown towns and the durability of racialized public space," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 49(2):480–495.

Rigby, David, Michael H. Esposito, Hedwig Lee, David C. Van Riper, et al. 2025. "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis," BMC Psychology, 12(1):31.

Kalulu, Peter, Aubrey Fisher, Grace Whitter, Ipek Sener, Michael Esposito, et al. 2025. "Trust, trust repair, and public health: a scoping review," Frontiers in Public Health, 13:1560089.

Cao, M., Michael Esposito, and H. Lee. 2025. "The US criminal legal system and population health," Current Epidemiology Reports, 12(1):5.

Das, Abhery, Michael Esposito, Tim A. Bruckner, and Hedwig Lee. 2025. "Incarceration and psychiatric emergency department visits among black Americans," The Milbank Quarterly, 103(3):883-917.

Rhym, Chad, and Laura Garbes. 2025. “I think it’s a very nasty question”: Trumpian anti-Black racism and the limits of traditional journalistic standards, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(15):3000-3018

Shepperd, Josh and Laura Garbes. 2025. “The political economy of documentary archives,” Oxford Handbook of Documentary Studies.

Garbes, Laura. 2025 "Occupational activism of outsiders within: How journalists of color work toward a more expansive news ecosystem," Work and Occupations, 53(1):149-179.

Garbes, Laura, and Thomas Marlow. 2025. “If NPR doesn’t see this as a crisis, I don’t know what it’ll take”: How journalists use digital platforms to make industry critiques," Poetics, 111:102007.

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.

Graetz, Nick, Adam Chapnik, Jacob Udell, and Ruthy Gourevitch. 2025. "Rent and eviction filing at enterprise-backed rental properties," Housing Policy Debate, 1-25.

Boen, Courtney E, Nick Graetz, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Robin Ortiz. 2025. "The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality," Social Forces, soaf181.

McMurtry, Caitlin, Marjory Givens, Zinzi Bailey, Nick Graetz, et al. “Why academic public health is ill-equipped to address health equity – and why building power is key,” American Journal of Public Health, 115(11):1783-1788.

Hepburn, Peter, Danny Grubbs-Donovan, Nick Graetz, Olivia Jin, and Matthew Desmond. “Losing your apartment and losing your school: Prevalence and consequences of eviction-led forced mobility for school-age children in Houston,” Sociology of Education, 98(3):184-202.

Hartmann, Douglas, and David L. Andrews.  2025. "In recognition of a quarter century of service and scholarship," Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 49(4):356-359.

Hartmann, Douglas. 2025. "Sports, race, social movements, and social change,” Annual Reviews, 51:271-290.

Rajasekar, Neeraj, Evan Stewart, and Douglas Hartmann. 2025. "Principle-policy and principle-personal gaps in Americans’ diversity attitudes," Du Bois Review, 22(1):1-27.

Morgan, Ethan, Thomas W. McDade, Wendy Manning, Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. "Assessing inflammatory biomarkers at the intersection of marijuana and PrEP use: Preliminary findings from the NCHAT-BIO study," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 100(5):407-414.

Julian, Christopher A., Hannah Tessler, Wendy D. Manning, Alexandra M. VanBergen, Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. "Half of the picture: A research note on measuring the sexual identity composition of couples," Demography, 62(4):1185-1201.

Morgan, Ethan, Claire M. Kamp Dush, Thomas W. McDade, Juan Peng, et al. 2025. "LGBTQ+ identity and its association with inflammation and cellular immune function," Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 126:333-341.

Christian, Lisa M., Stephanie Wilson, Annelise A. Madison, Claire M. Kamp Dush, et al. 2025. "Sexual minority stress and epigenetic aging," Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 126:24-29.

Gustafson, Kristen E., Wendy D. Manning, Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. "Family planning and concerns of unfair treatment of (potential) children among partnered sexual and gender minority individuals," LGBTQ+ Family, 21(1):83-99.

Morgan, Ethan, Claire M. Kamp Dush, Thomas W. McDade, Juan Peng, et all. 2025. “LGBTQ+ identity and its association with inflammation and cellular immune function,” Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 126:333-341.

Manning, Wendy D., Karen Guzzo, and Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. “Pandemic-based stress and fertility intentions among partnered adults," Socius 11:1-15. 

Guzzo, Karen Benjamin, Alexandra M. VanBergen, Wendy D. Manning, and Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. “Different-sex American couples’ stress, uncertainty, and fertility desires during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Genus, 81:1-22.

Manning, Wendy D., Claire M. Kamp Dush and Kristen Gustafson. 2025. "Health care stereotype threat during the Covid-19 pandemic among sexual and gender minority individuals," American Journal of Public Health, 115:425-433.

Donithen, Reed W., Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan, Miranda N. Berrigan, and Claire M. Kamp Dush. 2025. “When new fathers take more leave, does maternal gatekeeping decline?” Sex Roles, 91:1-17.

Arias, Elizabeth, Carolyn A. Liebler, Marc A. Garcia, Rogelio Sáenz. 2025. "Data impacts of changes in U.S. Census Bureau procedures for race and ethnicity data," SSM Population Health, 29:101742.

Okah, Ebiere, Enid Logan, Drexler James, and Rebekah Pratt. 2025. "A qualitative exploration of primary care clinicians’ perceptions of hypertensive black patients," Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (published online October 15, 2025). 

Logan, Enid. 2025. "The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race: responding to a moment of crisis with analysis, insight & action," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(15):2953–2970.

Logan, Enid. 2025. "From Barack Obama to Donald Trump: understanding the arc of twenty-first century presidential elections through the lens of white racial selfhood, white racial rhetoric, and racialised emotions," Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(15):3019-3036.

Meier, A., C. Kamp Dush, A. M. VanBergen, S. Clark, W. Manning. 2025. "Marginalized identities, healthcare discrimination, and parental stress about COVID-19," Journal of Marriage and Family, 87(1):258–279.

Fan, Wen, and Phyllis Moen. 2025. "Remote/hybrid work in flux: work-place/preference mismatch and adaptations," Social Forces, 104(2):752–775. 

Phelps, Michelle S. and Daniel Cueto-Villalobos. 2025. “Making racial demands: Tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis,” Social Problems, spaf046.

Savelsberg, Joachim J., Jillian LaBranche, and Miray Philips. 2025. "Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on SyriaProsecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on Syria," Law & Society Review, 1-33.

LaBranche, Jillian, and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2025. "Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison," American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 14:76–109.

Stewart, Robert, Dixin Li, Christopher Uggen. 2025. "Felony status, political identity, and civic engagement," Justice Quarterly, 43(4), 919–951

Horowitz, Veronica L., Steven L. Chanenson, Christopher Uggen, Hannah Nario-Lopez, et al. 2025. "Discouraging dignity: Linguistic barriers to transforming the prison environment," International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 82:100755.

Santaularia, N. Jeanie, Ryan Larson, Christopher E Robertson, Christopher Uggen. 2025. "The mental health consequences of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in Black, Latine, and White communities," American Journal of Epidemiology, 194(7):1900–1908.

Allison Nobles, Nicole Fox, Holly Nyseth Nzitatira, and Christopher Uggen. 2025. “The third shift: The highs and lows of women’s experiences as elected lay judges on Rwanda’s gacaca courts,” Journal of Genocide Research, 27(2):238-260.

Kathleen Powell, Sarah Lageson, Nathan W. Link, Jordan M. Hyatt, Christopher Uggen, and Loni P. Tabb. 2025. “The intersection of cannabis legalization, criminal record relief, and emerging adulthood,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 22:235-272.

Miller, Mahala, Jane S. VanHeuvelen, Tom VanHeuvelen. 2025. "Agentic recombination of health behaviors into adult health lifestyles," Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Mukherjee, Shibashis, Jane S. VanHeuvelen, and Clayton D. Thomas. 2025. "Professional in practice: Stigma management strategies of workers with concealed mental health conditions," Work & Occupations, 52(2).

VanHeuvelen, Jane S., Tom VanHeuvelen, and Janette S. Dill. 2025. "When the invisible becomes the impossible: Direct care workers’ experience of organizational change," Social Science and Medicine, 371:117887.

VanHeuvelen, Tom, Xiaowen Han, and Jane VanHeuvelen. "The mortality implications of a unionized career," Social Science & Medicine, 365:117620.

Han, Xiaowen, Jessie Himmelstern, and Tom VanHeuvelen. 2025. "The contribution of work values to early career mobility," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 95:100996.

VanHeuvelen, Tom, Jessie Himmelstern, and Regina Baker. 2025. "Public sector unionization and Black-White earnings inequality," Social Science Research, 132:103238.

Himmelstern, Jessie, and Tom VanHeuvelen. “Trends in realized job insecurity rate and depth in the United States from 1978 to 2022,” Social Forces, soaf200.

Quadlin, Natasha, and Tom VanHeuvelen. 2025. "Stability and change in the academic qualifications of recent men and women college entrants," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 97:101043.

Brinkman, Adam M., Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren, Eric Grodsky, et al. 2025. "Alzheimer's disease blood biomarker concentrations across race and ethnicity groups in middle-aged adults," JAMA Network Open, 8(11):e2545046.

Warren, John Robert, Gina Rumore, Soobin Kim, Eric Grodsky, et al. 2025. "Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course," SciencesAdvances, 11(47).

Ruggles, Steven, Julia Drew, Catherine A. Fitch, J. David Hacker, Jonas Helgertz, Matt A. Nelson, Nesile Ozder, Matthew Sobek, and John Robert Warren. 2025. "The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 4:258-271.

Warren, John Robert, and Ping Zheng. 2025. "A new residual approach for estimating undocumented populations," International Migration Review, 59(2).

Lee, Haena, John Robert Warren, James Iveniuk, Alicia Riley, Louise Hawkley, Jen Hanis-Martin, Kyung Won Choi. 2025. "Linking the 1940 U.S. census to the national social life, health, and aging project: Novel opportunity to understand the effects of early-life residential environment on cognitive aging," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(Supplement_1):S75-S90.

Jeong, Hyeyun, Jiahui Xu, John Robert Warren, Liying Luo, et al. 2025. "Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, 382:118271.

Warren,John Robert and Robert E. Warren. 2025. “Does enumerating undocumented residents in the U.S. census affect congressional apportionment?” PNAS Nexus, 4(2):pgaf021.

Castro, Catalina Anampa, John Robert Warren, and Jonas Helgertz. 2025. “Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century,” Social Science Research, 126:103136.

Warren, John Robert, Jessie Himmelstern, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, and Ryan Demmer. 2025. “Associations between socioeconomic, spatial, and educational factors and midlife periodontal disease risk,” Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 52:843-858.

Frisco, Michelle L., Emily A. Lybbert, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, Robert Warren. 2025. "Do high school experiences shape midlife body weight?” Social Science and Medicine, 372:117961.

Muller, Chandra, Eric Grodsky, Adam M. Brickman, Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Michael J. Culbertson, John Robert Warren. 2025. "Education and midlife cognitive functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond cohort," Alzheimer's & Dementia, 21(2):e70015.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2025. "Early adult mortality in a cross-national context—reconsidering American exceptionalism before and after the COVID-19 pandemic," JAMA Network Open, 8(10):e2537355.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2025. "Three ways of looking at black–white mortality differences in the United States," Annual Review of Sociology, 51:311-333.

Paglino, E., E. Wrigley-Field, A.C. Stokes. 2025. "Diverging mortality trends by educational attainment in the US," JAMA Health Forum, 6(6):e251647.

Bor Jacob, Rafeya V. Raquib, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. 2025. "Excess US deaths before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic," JAMA Health Forum, 6(5):e251118.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Rafeya V. Raquib, Kaitlyn M. Berry, Keeley J. Morris, Andrew C. Stokes. 2025. "Mortality trends among early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023," JAMA Network Open, 8(1):e2457538.