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2021 Research Publications
Buchanan, M. & and Baltus, M.R. (2021). Communities of Conflict. In Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, pp. 120-133. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Campbell, A. D., & Szaflarski, M. (2021). Health programming priorities in faith communities in Jefferson County, Alabama. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2021.1907837.
Clay-Warner, J., Edgemon, T. G., Okech,D. & Anarfi, J. (2021). Violence predicts physical health consequences of human trafficking: Findings from a longitudinal study of labor exploitation in Ghana.” Social Science & Medicine. (DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113970).
Peretz, T. & Vidmar, C. (2021). Men, masculinities, and gender-based violence: The broadening scope of recent research. Invited Article, Sociology Compass, 15(3), e12861. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12861.
Peretz, T. (2021). Locally specific matrices of domination: Towards a global theory of Intersectionalities. Women's Studies International Forum. Volume 89, November–December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102540.
Ruiz-Junco, N. 2021. “Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Self.” In Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, edited by Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo. Springer.
vom Lehn, Dirk, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, and William Gibson (eds) 2021. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. London and New York: Routledge.
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