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Jason Beckfield. "The Social Structure of the World Polity," American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming, 2010); "A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(1): 5–38 (2009); "Epi + demos + cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research Agenda." Epidemiologic Reviews (2009); "Remapping Inequality in Europe: The Net Effect of Regional Integration on Total Income Inequality in the European Union." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(5): 1–24 (2009).

Lawrence D. Bobo. "Obama and the Great Progressive Disconnect." Pathways Spring 2010: 14-17; "Racilaized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice, and Punishment" (with Victor Thompson), Pp. 322-355 in Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, edited by Hazel R. Markus and Paula Moya. New York: Norton (2010); "Crime, Urban Poverty, and Social Science." Du Bois Review 6(2): 273-278 (2009); "Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Reprt to the Obama Candidacy" (with Camille Z. Charles) Annals, AAPSS 621: 243-259 (2009); "A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency."with Michael C. Dawson, Du Bois Review 6(1): 1-14 (2009).

Bart Bonilowski. “Cross-National Interaction and Cultural Similarity: A Relational Analysis” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 51:315-48, 2010; “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor
Market: A Field Experiment” (with Devah Pager and Bruce Western), American Sociological Review 74:777-799, 2009; “Make Money Surfing the Web? The Impact of Internet Use on the Earnings of U.S. Workers” (with Paul DiMaggio), American Sociological Review 73:227-50, 2008.

Mary C. Brinton. Ushinawareta ba o sagashite:  'Lost generation no
shakaigaku (Searching for the Lost Place: The Sociology of the 'Lost Generation'), NTT Press, Tokyo (November 2008); "Gendered Offices: A Comparative-Historical Examination of Clerical Work in Japan and the U.S.," Frances McCall Rosenbluth, editor, The Political Economy of Low Fertility: Japan in Comparative Perspective, Stanford University Press (2007); "Transformation and Persistence in Japanese Labor Market Institutions," review essay for A Nagging Sense of Job Insecurity: The New Reality Facing Japanese Youth by Yuji Genda, the Changing Japanese Employement System by Marcus Rebick, A Sociology of The Journal of Japanese Studies, 33, 2: 415-425. The Declining Significance of Gender? with Francine D. Blau and David Grusky, Russell Sage Foundation (2006).

Nicholas Christakis. Connected: The Suprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (Little, Brown & Co., 2009); "Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study," with J.H. Fowler, British Medical Journal 2008;337:a2338 (December 2008); "The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network," with J.H. Fowler, New England Journal of Medicine 358(21): 2249-2258 (May 2008); "Wives and Ex-Wives: A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widower Effect," with F. Elwert, Demography 45(4): 851-873 (November 2008).

Matthew Desmond. The Racial Order (with Mustafa Emirbayer), University of Chicago Press, forthcoming; Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America (with Mustafa Emirbayer), McGraw-Hill, 2009; On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters, University of Chicago Press, 2007; “Contributions to College Costs by Married, Divorced, and Remarried Parents,” (with Ruth López Turley), Journal of Family Issues 32 (2011): 767-90; “Making Firefighters Deployable,” Qualitative Sociology 34 (2011): 59-77.

Frank Dobbin. Inventing Equal Opportunity, Princeton University Press (2009); The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy, edited with B. Simmons and G. Garrett, Cambridge University Press (2008); "Diversity Management in Corporate America," with A. Kalev and E. Kelly, Contexts, 6(4): 21-28 (2007); "The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning?" with B. Simmons and G. Garrett, Annual Review of Sociology, 33: 449-72 (2007).

Filiz Garip. "Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand" (with Sara Curran), Population Research and Policy Review 29: 659-685, 2010; "Model Comparison and Simulation for Hierarchical Models: Analyzing Rural-Urban Migration in Thailand" (with Bruce Western), forthcoming in Handbook of MCMC, edited by Galin Jones, Steve Brooks, Xiao-Li Meng, and Andrew Gelman. CRC Press, 2010; "Social Capital and Migration: How do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?" Demography45(3): 591-617 (2008).

Tamara Kay: NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2011); ""Legal Transnationalism: The Relationship Between Transnational Social Movement Building and International Law." Law & Social Inquiry. 36(2): 437-478; “Building Solidarity with Subjects and Audience in Sociology and Documentary Photography” Sociological Forum.26(2): 424-430.

Michèle Lamont: Social Knowledge in the Making (with Charles Camic and Neil Gross (University of Chicago Press, in press, 2011);"Lamont, M, Huutoniemi K.  2011.  "Opening the Black Box of Evaluation: How Quality is Recognized by Peer Review Panels" (with K. Huutoniemi), Bulletin SAGW. 2:47-49, 2011; How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2009); How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (with Peter Hall, Cambridge University Press 2009).

Stanley Lieberson: "Implication Analysis: A Pragmatic Proposal for Linking Theory and Data in the Social Sciences," Sociological Method 38(1): 1-50 (December 2008); "The Changing Role of Nicknames: A Study of Politicians” (with Cathy Kenny), Names Vol. 55.4: 371-325 (2007). The Frequency Distribution Mechanism: Accounting for Two Radically Different Changes in Names and Other Tastes" with Freda B. Lynn, to be published in Proceedings of ICOS Conference on Names in Time and Space; "Popularity as a Taste: An Application to the Naming Process," with Freda B. Lynn, Ph.D. 2005, ONOMA: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, 38: 235-76; Forward to Marcia Layton Turner and Robbi Hess, The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names, Alpha Books (2006).

Peter V. Marsden: Handbook of Survey Research, second revised edition co-edited with James Wright (Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK, 2010. "The Analysis of Social Networks," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 8(4): 222-269 (December 2008); "Voluntary Physician Switching by Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals: A National Study of Patient, Physician, and Organizational Factors," with Hector P. Rodriguez, Ira B. Wilson, Bruce E. Landon, and Paul D. Cleary, Medical Care 45(3): 189-198 (March 2007); "The Impact of a Quality Improvement Program on Systems, Processes, and Structures in Medical Clinics," with D. Keith McInnes, Bruce E. Landon, Ira B. Wilson, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Faye Malitz, Magda Barini-Garcia, and Paul D. Cleary, Medical Care 45(5): 463-471 (May 2007).

Orlando Patterson: Review of Logics of History by William Sewell Jr., American Journal of Sociology, 112(4) (January 2007); "About Public Sociology," in Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty First Century," edited by Dan Clawson, et al., University of California Press (2007); "Slavery, Gender and Work in the Pre-Modern World and Early Greece," in Slave Systems, Ancient and Modern, edited by Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari, Cambridge University Press (2007).

Robert J. Sampson: Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, University of Chicago Press, November 2011; "Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization: Resident and Leadership Dimensions," American Behavioral Scientist, 52(11): 1579-1605 (2009); "Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure," American Journal of Sociology 114: 189-231 (2008); "Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 845-853 (2008)' Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Perspective, edited with Tom Tyler, Anthony Braga, Jeffrey Fagan, Tracey Meares, and Chris Winship, New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2007).

Theda Skocpol: "A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard," lead author of internal Harvard report of the FAS Task Force on Teaching and Career Development (January 2007); "What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality," with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (2006); "Coming Home: Can America Repeat the Success of the GI Bill?" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, No. 2 (Fall 2006).

Jocelyn Viterna:“Women in El Salvador: Continuing the Struggle," with Irina Silber, Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey, edited by Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, ABC-CLIO (February 2009); “Democratization, Women’s Movements, and
Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison." with Kathleen M. Fallon, American Sociological Review 73 (4): 668-689 (2008); “How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's Political Representation," with Kathleen M. Fallon and Jason Beckfield, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 49 (6): 455-477 (2008).

Mary C. Waters: Inheriting the City: The Second Generation Comes of Age, with Jennifer Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf, Harvard University and Russell Sage Press (2008); The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, edited with Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow, Harvard University Press (2007); "Introduction," with Reed Uueda, pp 14-29, Intermarriage and Multiple Identities, with Joel Perlmann, pp 110-123; "America's Immigration Success Story," Forbes Magazine online oped (May 29, 2007); "The Challenges of Immigration to Race Based Diversity Policies in the United States," with Zoua Vang, in Keith Banting and Thomas Courchene, and F. Leslie Seidle, eds., Belonging?: Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada, Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy Press (2007).

Bruce Western, “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration,” with Christopher Wildeman, Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science 621: 221–242 (2009); "From Prison to Work: A Proposal for a National Prisoner Reentry Program," Hamilton Project Discussion Paper 2008-16. Washington DC: Brookings Institution (2008); "The Prison Boom and the Decline of American Citizenship," Society, 44: 30-37 (2007).

Martin King Whyte: "Myth fo the Social Volcano: Popular Responses to Rising Inequality in China, " in The People's Republic of China at 60 (William C. Kirby, editor), Harvard Univeristy Asia Center, 2011; "Do Chinese Citizens Want the Government to do More?" in Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, eds.), Routledge, 2010; The Paradoxes of Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (Martin King Whyte, ed.), Harvard University Press, 2010.

William Julius Wilson: “Why Both Social Structure and Culture Matter in a Holistic Analysis of Inner-City Poverty” in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 629 (2010): 200-219; “The Obama Administration’s Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty,” City and Community 9/1 (March 2010): 41-49; “More Than Just Race: A Rejoinder” in Sociological Forum 25/2 (June 2010): 390-94; “Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces,” American Educator, Spring 2011, pp. 10-23 and 47; “The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited and Revised.” Daedalus 140/2 (Spring 2011): 1-15.; “Reflections on a Sociological Career that Integrates Social Science with Social Policy.” Annual Review of Sociology 37 (2011):1-18; “All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods” (with James Quane). Pathways (Summer 2011):9-13; “Improving Grades:  Urban Public Schools, Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, and the Promise of Innovation” (with James Quane) in Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research. 1 (2011):265-272; “The Impact of Racial and Nonracial Structural Forces on Poor Urban Blacks” in Covert Racism: Theory, Institutions and Experience. Leiden, Brill, 2011.

Christopher Winship: "John Dewey: the Sociology of Action" with Christopher Muller, forthcoming in Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren (Eds), Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology Through Literature, Philosophy and Science; "Moral Power" with Jal Mehta, forthcoming in Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vasey (Eds), Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Springer, 2010; "Effect Heterogeneity and Bias in Main-Effects-Only Regression Models" with Felix Elwert, forthcoming in Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner, and Joseph Y. Halpern (Eds.), Heuristics, Probability and Causality: A Tribute to Judea Pearl, College Publications, 2010; "What Can Cities Do to Prevent Serious Youth Violence?" with Anthony Braga in Criminal Justice Matters 75: Perspectives from North America, 2009; Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research) (with Stephen L. Morgan) Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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