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Last updated: May 18, 2026

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Forthcoming

• "Governing during a Culture War: Religion and Local Government Officials' Attitudes toward Transgender Rights Policies in the United States."

2025

• "Confidence in Elections among U.S. Public Officials: Effects of Social Trust, Partisanship, and Political Ambition."

2024

• After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology.

• “Comparison after Positivism.”

• “Comparison in Action: Immersion and Recursion as Heuristics in Historical Sociology.”

• “Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA.” 

• "The White Church."

2023

• “The State and Soul of Intellectual Property Law.” 

• “The Funk of White Souls: Toward a Du Boisian Theory of the White Church.” 

2022

• "The Rise and Fall of Church-State Separation."

• “Religion-State Interaction at the Local Level: Key Findings from a Survey of Religion and Local Elected Officials.” 

2021

• “Religion at the Frontline: How Religion Influenced the Response of Local Government Officials to the Covid-19 Pandemic.” 

• “The Dejudicialization of Religious Freedom?” 

• “Visualizing the Expanding Space of Consecration in American Sociology, 1980-2020.”

• “Societal Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Political Interest, 1981-2014.”

2020

• “What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Analytic Architectures in Historical Sociology.” 

• “Culturalized Religion: A Synthetic Review and Agenda for Future Research.” 

• “The Archive as a Social World.” 

2019

• “Negotiating the Politics of Diversity: A Symposium on Rogers Brubaker’s Grounds for Difference. Introduction.”

2018

• “The Judicialization of Religious Freedom: An Institutionalist Approach.” 

2017

• “Beyond the Hidden American State: Classification Struggles and the Politics of Visibility.”

2016

• Secular Conversions: Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000.

• “Defining the State from Within: Boundaries, Schemas, and Associational Policymaking.” 

• “Collective Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Attitudes towards Economic Redistribution in 74 Countries, 1990-2008.” 

• “Family Formation and Returning to Religion among Young Adults.” 

2015

• “How Does the State Structure Secularization?” 

• “Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of American and Australian Jews, 1945-1980.”

2013

• “When White People Report Racial Discrimination: The Role of Region, Religion, and Politics.” 

• “Fields, Logics, and Social Movements: Prison Abolition and the Social Justice Field.”

2011

• “Higher Education and Religious Liberalization among Young Adults.” 

• “Administering Secularization:  Religious Education in New South Wales since 1960.” 

2009

• “Religion and Higher Education: Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Research.” 

• “On Writing Public Sociology: Accountability through Dialogue, Relevance, and Accessibility.”

• “The Contribution of Childhood Trauma to Adult Psychopathology in Dually-Diagnosed Detainees: Implications for Gender-Based Jail and Reentry Trauma-Informed Services.” 

2007

• “Mental Health Diversion: Effects of Mandated versus Non-Mandated Strategies.”

2005

• “Outcomes of Mandated and Non-Mandated New York City Jail Diversion for Offenders with Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders.” 

2003

• “Arrested Adults Awaiting Arraignment: Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Criminal Justice Characteristics and Needs.”