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Faculty Publications and Honors

Our department is proud to recognize professional accomplishments and honor excellence among its faculty. The department recognizes our faculty publications and outstanding faculty achievements in teaching, scholarship, service and mentoring with four annual awards. 

Kruse, J. A. & El-Khoury, H. (2022). A poverty simulation to enhance nursing student knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward people living in poverty. Nursing Form, 57(5), 851-859.

In press. Tonui, Betty C., & Mitschke, D. B. “We still keep our culture to stay alive”: Acculturation and  Adaptation among Resettled Young Adult Refugees from Burma. Accepted by the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

In press. Becker, Jacob H. “Within-Neighborhood Dynamics: Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Homicide Rates in Chicago.” Social Problems.

2021. Henri Gooren, "The Mennonitization of the Mass Media in Paraguay."  Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 50 (2): 128-152.

2021. Reger, Jo. Gender and Social Movements. Polity Press.

2021. Condron, Dennis J., Douglas B. Downey, and Megan Kuhfeld.  "Schools as Refractors: Comparing Summertime and School-Year Skill Inequality Trajectories." Sociology of Education 94(4):316-40.

2021. Anasti, Theresa. "Peer Involvement in Service Provision: How US Human Service Nonprofit Organisations Include Sex Workers as Organisational Staff." Culture, Health and Sexuality.

2021. Rabii, Watoii. “No Tough Guys Here?” Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

2021. Johnson, Wendi L. and Peggy C. Giordano. “The Role of Marriage and Military Service in Crime Cessation:  Race, ‘The Respectability Package,’ and the Desistance Process.” Armed Forces & Society, 47(1), 106-125.

2020. Patrick Watson and Albert J. Meehan. "Two Modalities for Using Video in Analyses of On-Duty Police Violence" Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Dirk Von Lehm (Editor), Routledge.

2020. Lyons, Heidi A., and George Sanders. "Bridging Hinges: The Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values of Emerging Adults' Sexualities." Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood, edited by E. M. Morgan and M. H. M. van Dulmen. Oxford University Press.

2020. Carroll, Jon W. “sUAS Multispectral Survey of the Historical Landscape of Chateau de Balleroy, Normandy, France.”  International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 11(4), pp 64-78.

2020. Fiori, K. L., Rauer, A. J., Birditt, K. S., Brown, E., & Terri Orbuch. “You aren’t as close to my family as you think: Discordant perceptions about in-laws and risk of divorce.” Research in Human Development, 17(4), 258-273.

2020. Sanders, George and Heidi Lyons. “The Sagacity of the Surround: The Casual Sex-Assemblages of Young Adults.” Sexualities.

2020. Tonsing, Kareen N. & Vungkhanching, M. “The relationship between post-migration living difficulties, social support and psychological distress of Burmese refugees in the United States.” Asian American Journal of Psychology, 11(3), 179-186.

2020. Kaiser, Angie A. “Muslim Civic Engagement in Metropolitan Detroit: Motivating Forces and Challenges.” Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, 39 (3), 275-298.

Kruse, J. A. & El-Khoury, H. (2022). A poverty simulation to enhance nursing student knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward people living in poverty. Nursing Form, 57(5), 851-859.

In press. Tonui, Betty C., & Mitschke, D. B. “We still keep our culture to stay alive”: Acculturation and  Adaptation among Resettled Young Adult Refugees from Burma. Accepted by the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

In press. Becker, Jacob H. “Within-Neighborhood Dynamics: Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Homicide Rates in Chicago.” Social Problems.

2021. Henri Gooren, "The Mennonitization of the Mass Media in Paraguay."  Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context 50 (2): 128-152.

2021. Reger, Jo. Gender and Social Movements. Polity Press.

2021. Condron, Dennis J., Douglas B. Downey, and Megan Kuhfeld.  "Schools as Refractors: Comparing Summertime and School-Year Skill Inequality Trajectories." Sociology of Education 94(4):316-40.

2021. Anasti, Theresa. "Peer Involvement in Service Provision: How US Human Service Nonprofit Organisations Include Sex Workers as Organisational Staff." Culture, Health and Sexuality.

2021. Rabii, Watoii. “No Tough Guys Here?” Hybrid Masculinity in a Boxing Gym.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

2021. Johnson, Wendi L. and Peggy C. Giordano. “The Role of Marriage and Military Service in Crime Cessation:  Race, ‘The Respectability Package,’ and the Desistance Process.” Armed Forces & Society, 47(1), 106-125.

2020. Patrick Watson and Albert J. Meehan. "Two Modalities for Using Video in Analyses of On-Duty Police Violence" Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Dirk Von Lehm (Editor), Routledge.

2020. Lyons, Heidi A., and George Sanders. "Bridging Hinges: The Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values of Emerging Adults' Sexualities." Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood, edited by E. M. Morgan and M. H. M. van Dulmen. Oxford University Press.

2020. Carroll, Jon W. “sUAS Multispectral Survey of the Historical Landscape of Chateau de Balleroy, Normandy, France.”  International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 11(4), pp 64-78.

2020. Fiori, K. L., Rauer, A. J., Birditt, K. S., Brown, E., & Terri Orbuch. “You aren’t as close to my family as you think: Discordant perceptions about in-laws and risk of divorce.” Research in Human Development, 17(4), 258-273.

2020. Sanders, George and Heidi Lyons. “The Sagacity of the Surround: The Casual Sex-Assemblages of Young Adults.” Sexualities.

2020. Tonsing, Kareen N. & Vungkhanching, M. “The relationship between post-migration living difficulties, social support and psychological distress of Burmese refugees in the United States.” Asian American Journal of Psychology, 11(3), 179-186.

2020. Kaiser, Angie A. “Muslim Civic Engagement in Metropolitan Detroit: Motivating Forces and Challenges.” Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, 39 (3), 275-298.

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