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Katya Ravid (Biology) “Cardiovascular Disease in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: JACC: CardioOncology State-of-the-Art Review,” published by International Journal of biometeorology, 6/22

Katya Ravid (Biology) “Characterization of Glycoproteoforms of Integrins α2 and β1 in Megakaryocytes in the Occurrence of JAK2V617F Mutation-Induced Primary Myelofibrosis,” published by International Journal of biometeorology, 4/22

Richard Primack (Biology) “Long‐term ecological research and the COVID‐19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance,” published by International Journal of biometeorology, 4/22

Richard Primack (Biology) “Plant and bird phenology and plant occurrence from 1851 to 2020 (non‐continuous) in Thoreau’s Concord, Massachusetts,” published by International Journal of biometeorology, 5/22

Richard Primack (Biology) “A comparison of herbarium and citizen science phenology datasets for detecting response of flowering time to climate change in Denmark,” published by International Journal of biometeorology, 5/22

Richard Primack (Biology) “Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology‐a multi‐botanical garden study,” published by New Phytologist, 6/22

Francisco Naya (Biology) “CMYA5 establishes cardiac dyad architecture and positioning,” published by Nature communications, 4/22

Mario Muscedere (Biology) “Socioecology and evolutionary neurobiology of predatory ants,” published by Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2/22

Jeffrey Marlow (Biology) “New Opportunities and Untapped Scientific Potential in the Abyssal Ocean,” published by Frontiers in Marine Science, 2/22

Jeffrey Marlow (Biology) “Applications of omics in life detection beyond Earth,” published by New Frontiers in Astrobiology, 1/22

Heng-Ye Man (Biology) “Regulatory Effects of Gradient Microtopographies on Synapse Formation and Neurite Growth in Hippocampal Neurons,” published by Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 5/22

Phillip Lobel (Biology) “Damselfish Embryos as a Bioindicator for Military Contamination on Coral Reefs at Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean,” published by Fishes, 2/22

Phillip Lobel (Biology) “Evolutionary patterns in sound production across fishes,” published by Ichthyology & Herpetology, 4/22

Jen-Wei Lin (Biology) “Functions of potassium channels blocked by low micromolar 4-aminopyridine in the crayfish nervous system,” published by Synapse, 4/22

Jen-Wei Lin (Biology) “Association between glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and biliary-related diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes: A nationwide cohort study,” published by Pharmacotherapy, 5/22

Jen-Wei Lin (Biology) “Comparative cardiovascular effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists versus sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes: A population-based cohort study,” published by Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 5/22

Jen-Wei Lin (Biology) “Excitatory and inhibitory neuromodulation induced by a single infrared light pulse,” published by Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation, 5/22

Jen-Wei Lin (Biology) “Single infrared light pulses induce excitatory and inhibitory neuromodulation,” published by Biomedical Optics Express, 1/22

Les Kaufman (Biology) “The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics,” published by Journal of Neuroscience, 5/22

Angela Ho (Biology) “Clinical Discordance in Monozygotic Twins With Autism Spectrum Disorder,” published by Journal of Neuroscience, 5/22

Angela Ho (Biology) “Human APOER2 isoforms have differential cleavage events and synaptic properties,” published by Journal of Neuroscience, 5/22

Angela Ho (Biology) “Single molecule, long-read Apoer2 sequencing identifies conserved and species-specific splicing patterns,” published by Genomics, 3/22

Thomas Gilmore (Biology) “Cellular Immunology: Transcriptional Basis of B and T Cell Lineages and Memory Cells− NF-kappaB and the Immune System,” published by Elsevier, 1/22

Robinson Fulweiler (Biology) “Evaluating Connections Between Nitrogen Cycling and the Macrofauna in Native Oyster Beds in a New England Estuary,” published by Estuaries and Coasts, 1/22

Robinson Fulweiler (Biology) “A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification,” published by Science, 2/22

Robinson Fulweiler (Biology) “Cold Seeps on the Passive Northern US Atlantic Margin Host Globally Representative Members of the Seep Microbiome with Locally Dominant Strains of Archaea,” published by Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 5/22

Robinson Fulweiler (Biology) “Explanations for nitrogen decline—Response,” published by Science, 6/22

Robinson Fulweiler (Biology) “Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems,” published by Science, 4/22

Ana Fiszbein (Biology) “Widespread occurrence of hybrid internal-terminal exons in human transcriptomes,” published by Science advances, 1/22

Adrien Finzi (Biology) “A review of microplastic impacts on seagrasses, epiphytes, and associated sediment communities,” published by Environmental Pollution,” 3/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Humanized mice reveal a macrophage-enriched gene signature defining human lung tissue protection during SARS-CoV-2 infection,” published by Cell reports, 4/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Multiomic Metabolic Enrichment Network Analysis Reveals Metabolite–Protein Physical Interaction Subnetworks Altered in Cancer,” published by Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 1/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Factor quinolinone inhibitors disrupt spindles and multiple LSF (TFCP2)-protein interactions in mitosis, including with microtubule-associated proteins,” published by PIoS one, 6/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Neuralized-like protein 4 (NEURL4) mediates ADP-ribosylation of mitochondrial proteins,” published by Journal of Cell Biology, 2/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “ZFC3H1 and U1-70K promote the nuclear retention of mRNAs with 5′ splice site motifs within nuclear speckles,” published by RNA, 6/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Recombinant Lloviu virus as a tool to study viral replication and host responses,” published by PLoS pathogens, 2/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “DNAJB1-PRKACA in HEK293T cells induces LINC00473 overexpression that depends on PKA signaling,” published by PIoS one, 2/22

Andrew Emili (Biology) “Genetic basis of thermal nociceptive sensitivity and rain weight in a BALB/c reduced complexity cross,” published by Molecular pain, 2/22

Ethan Deyle (Biology) “Fluctuating interaction network and time-varying stability of a natural fish community,” published by Nature, 5/22

Ethan Deyle (Biology) “A hybrid empirical and parametric approach for managing ecosystem complexity: Water quality in Lake Geneva under nonstationary futures,” published by Proceedings of the ANtural Academy of Sciences, 6/22

Sarah Davies (Biology) “Microbial Community Dynamics Provide Evidence for Hypoxia during a Coral Reef Mortality Event,” published by Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 5/22

Sarah Davies (Biology) “Building Consensus around the Assessment and Interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae Diversity,” published by MDPI, 6/22

Sarah Davies (Biology) “Microbiome structuring within a coral colony and along a sedimentation gradient,” published by Frontiers in Marine Science, 1/22

Sarah Davies (Biology) “Genetic divergence and range expansion in a western North Pacific coral,” published by Science of the Total Environment, 3/22

Sarah Davies (Biology) “Reef environments shape microbial partners in a highly connected coral population,” published by Proceeding of The Royal Society B, 1/22

Jerry Chen (Biology) “Dense functional and molecular readout of a circuit hub in sensory cortex,” published by Science, 1/22

Peter Buston (Biology) “Strategic growth in social vertebrates,” published by Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 4/22

Peter Buston (Biology) “Population assignment tests uncover rare long‐distance marine larval dispersal events,” published by Ecology, 1/22

Jennifer Bhatnagar (Biology) “Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks,” published by Nature ecology & evolution, 1/22

Jennifer Bhatnagar (Biology) “Soil fungi exposed to warming temperatures and shrinking snowpack in a northern hardwood forest have lower capacity for growth and nutrient cycling,” published by Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4/22

Jennifer Bhatnagar (Biology) “The National Ecological Observatory Network’s soil metagenomes: assembly and basic analysis,” published by F1000 Research, 3/22

Uwe Beffert (Biology) “Human APOER2 isoforms have differential cleavage events and synaptic properties,” published by Journal of Neuroscience, 5/22

Uwe Beffert (Biology) “Single molecule, long-read Apoer2 sequencing identifies conserved and species-specific splicing patterns,” published by Genomics, 3/22

Paul Withers (Astronomy) “Jupiter’s Enigmatic Ionosphere: Electron Density Profiles From the Pioneer, Voyager, and Galileo Radio Occultation Experiments,” published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 3/22

Paul Withers (Astronomy) “Comparison of the Effects of Regional and Global Dust Storms on the Composition of the Ionized Species of the Martian Upper Atmosphere Using MAVEN,” published by Remote Sensing 3/22

Meers Oppenheim (Astronomy) “Origin of Dawnside Subauroral Polarization Streams during Major Geomagnetic Storms,” published by ESSOAr 3/22

Phillip Muirhead (Astronomy) “A 2+ 1+ 1 quadruple star system containing the most eccentric, low-mass, short-period, eclipsing binary known,” published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2/22

Phillip Muirhead (Astronomy) “The Perkins INfrared Exosatellite Survey (PINES) I. Survey Overview, Reduction Pipeline, and Early Results,” published by The Astronomical Journal 5/22

Luke Moore (Astronomy) “Variability of Jupiter’s Main Auroral Emission and Satellite Footprints Observed With HST During the Galileo Era,” published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2/22

Luke Moore (Astronomy) “Jupiter’s Enigmatic Ionosphere: Electron Density Profiles From the Pioneer, Voyager, and Galileo Radio Occultation Experiments,” published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 3/22

Luke Moore (Astronomy) “The Spatial Distribution and Temperature of Mercury’s Potassium Exosphere,” published by The Planetary Science Journal 4/22

Luke Moore (Astronomy) “Saturn’s Weather‐Driven Aurorae Modulate Oscillations in the Magnetic Field and Radio Emissions,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 5/22

Carlos Martinis (Astronomy) “Multi‐Scale Density Structures in the Plasmaspheric Plume During a Geomagnetic Storm,” published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 3/22

Carlos Martinis (Astronomy) “Rainbow of the Night: First Direct Observation of a SAR arc evolving into STEVE,” published by Geophysical Research Letters 6/22

Alan Marscher (Astronomy) “Millimeter Light Curves of Sagittarius A* Observed during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 5/22

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Juno Plasma Wave Observations at Ganymede,” published by Geophysical Research Letters 5/22

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Amplitude dependence of nonlinear precipitation blocking of relativistic electrons by large amplitude EMIC waves,” published by Geophysical Research Letters 6/22

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Identification and Classification of Relativistic Electron Precipitation Events at Earth Using Supervised Deep Learning,” published by Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 3/22

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Analysis on the relativistic electron precipitation in the midnight sector,” published by International Union of Radio Science 6/22

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Relativistic Electron Precipitation Near Midnight: Drivers, Distribution, and Properties,” published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 1/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “New Variable Hot Subdwarf Stars Identified from Anomalous Gaia Flux Errors, Observed by TESS, and Classified via Fourier Diagnostics,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 3/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “Discovery of 74 new bright ZZ Ceti stars in the first three years of TESS,” published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “The Pulsating Helium-atmosphere White Dwarfs. I. New DBVs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey” published by The Astronomical Journal 3/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “The SN Ia runaway LP 398-9: detection of circumstellar material and surface rotation,” published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 6/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “Searching for TESS Photometric Variability of Possible JWST Spectrophotometric Standard Stars,” published by The Astronomical Journal 2/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “Pulsating hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs observed with TESS-III. Asteroseismology of the DBV star GD 358,” published by Astronomy & Astrophysics 3/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “A 20 Second Cadence View of Solar-type Stars and Their Planets with TESS: Asteroseismology of Solar Analogs and a Recharacterization of π Men,” published by The Astronomical Journal 1/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “Relentless and complex transits from a planetesimal debris disc,” published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4/22

JJ Hermes (Astronomy) “Circular polarimetry of suspect wind-accreting magnetic pre-polars,” published by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4/22

Catherine Espaillat (Astronomy) “The ODYSSEUS Survey. Motivation and First Results: Accretion, Ejection, and Disk Irradiation of CVSO 109,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 2/22

Catherine Espaillat (Astronomy) “Tracing Accretion onto Herbig Ae/Be Stars Using the Brγ Line,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 2/22

Dan Clemens & Catherine Espaillat (Astronomy) “Near-infrared Polarization from Unresolved Disks around Brown Dwarfs and Young Stellar Objects,” published by The Astrophysical Journal 2/22

John Clarke (Astronomy) “Observation and origin of non-thermal hard X-rays from Jupiter,” published by Nature Astronomy 4/22

Tereasa Brainerd (Astronomy) “Cosmic voids in GAN-generated maps of large-scale structure,” published by Astronomy and Computing 1/22

Michael Mendillo (Astronomy) Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion, and Art in Western Culture (April 2022 ) Mendillo takes readers deep into the annals of history, showing how visual depictions of the heavens evolved in tandem with science and religion throughout much of Western culture.

Les Kaufman (Biology) “The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics” (ScienceAdvances, February 2022 ) Kaufman computes the annualized damages from emerging viral zoonoses and explores three practical actions to minimize the impact of future pandemics: better surveillance of pathogen spillover and development of global databases of virus genomics and serology, better management of wildlife trade, and substantial reduction of deforestation.

Wen Li (Astronomy) “Analysis on the relativistic electron precipitation in the midnight sector” (OpenBU, June 2022 ) Li analyzes the precipitation of relativistic electrons occurring in the midnight sector, defined over 22–02 MLT.

Randi Rotjan (Biology) “My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research” (The Royal Society, May 2022 ) Recognizing that many deep-ocean endeavours take place in countries without deep-ocean access, this project aimed to reduce dependency on external expertise and promote local efforts in two small island developing states, Trinidad and Tobago and Kiribati, to explore their deep-sea backyards using comparatively low-cost technology.

John Porco (Chemistry) “Unified, Asymmetric Total Synthesis of the Asnovolins and Related Spiromeroterpenoids: A Fragment Coupling Approach” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2022 ) This study demonstrates the utility of anionic fragment coupling to assemble a sterically congested molecular framework and provides a foundation for the synthesis of spiromeroterpenoid congeners with higher oxidation states for biological studies.

Sandor Vajda (Chemistry) “API Development Increases Access to Shared Computing Resources at Boston University ” (Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2022 ) Many academic research institutions offer their own HPC Centers but struggle to make the computing resources easily accessible and user-friendly. Here Vajda presents SHABU, a RESTful Web API framework that enables science & engineering communities to access resources from Boston University’s Shared Computing Center (SCC).

Social Sciences

Thomas Barfield (Anthropology), Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, Princeton University Press, 2023.

Brooke Blower (History), Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper, Oxford University Press, 2023.

Arianne Chernock (History), The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Robert W. Hefner (Anthropology), Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics, Routledge, 2024.

James Johnson (History), A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire, Vol. 5, Bloomsbury Press, 2023.

Cathie Jo Martin (Political Science), Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Ronald Richardson (History), Being-in-America: White Supremacy and the American Self, Peter Lang, 2024.

John Thornton (History), Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga, King of Kongo: His Life and Correspondence, Hackett Publishing, 2o23

Ana Villarreal (Sociology), The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, Oxford University Press, 2024.

Merry White (Anthropology), Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture, Princeton University Press, 2023.

Saida Grundy (African American Studies, Sociology) Respectable ( August 2022) Grundy gathers the experiences of former students and others connected to Morehouse College to illustrate the narrow, conservative vision of masculinity molded at a competitive Black institution.

Jonathan J.B. Mijs (Sociology) Merit and Ressentiment: How to Tackle the Tyranny of Merit (Theory and Research in Education, July 2022) Mijs discusses Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Meritocracy, pushing back on the concept that people are disillusioned with meritocracy but rather than people are disillusioned due to the “broken promise of liberalism and democracy.” Mijs also discusses some of the practical limitations of Sandel’s suggestions regarding elite university admissions.

Jessica T. Simes (Sociology) “We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration Among Social Science Service Providers Across the Urban-Rural Continuum (Social Science Review, June 2022) Simes and co-author discuss the collaboration and reliance of social service providers on law enforcement, especially in areas with weak social and economic infrastructures. The authors evaluate the implication of this relationship on mass incarceration and prison reintegration efforts.

David M. Carballo (Anthropology) Big Gods and Big Science: Further Reflections on Theory, Data, and Analysis (Religion, Brain & Behavior, June 2022) Carballo and co-authors test the Big Gods Hypothesis with respect to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history. They find two main drivers of this evolution: intensity of warfare and agricultural productivity.

Alice Cronin-Golomb (Psychological and Brain Sciences) Perceived Stigma and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease with Additional Health Conditions (General Psychiatry, June 2022) Cronin-Golomb and coauthors study individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and one additional health condition. They find that individuals with other health conditions (i.e. thyroid disease, depression, anxiety, etc) were at heightened risk of perceived stigma and poorer quality of life

Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) Moving Towards Antibigotry: Collected Essays from the Center for Antiracists Research’s Antibigotry Convening (Center for Antiracist Research, June 2022) Ibram X. Kendi and other scholars discuss ableism, ageism, anti-Asian American racism, anti-blackness/colorism, anti-fat bigotry, anti-pacific islander bigotry, antisemitism, classism, heterosexism and transphobia, islamophobia, linguicism, religious tolerance, and sexism.

David Mayers (Political Science) Freelance Revolutionist: Agnes Smedley in Wartime China (1937-1941) (Diplomacy & Statecraft, June 2022) Mayers discusses the life and career of Agnes Smedley in the context of current Sino-American relations.

Ian Sue Wing (Earth & Environment) When and How to Use Economy-Wide Models for Environmental Policy Analysis (Annual Review of Resource Economics, June 2022) Sue Wing and co-authors provide a framework for when to use computational general models (CGE) for environmental policy analysis, comparing the approach to partial equilibrium or engineering models.

Deborah Carr (Sociology) Older Adults’ Relationship Trajectories and Estate Planning (Journal of Family and Economic Issues, June 2022) Carr and co-author Shinae Choi evaluate whether rates of estate planning (i.e., having a will or trust) differ on the basis of one’s romantic relationship trajectory. They find that long-term married and widowed persons have the highest rates of estate planning, and persons who require estate planning most — divorced, cohabiting, and lifelong single persons — have low rates of estate planning.  The authors discuss the implications for the financial security of older adults and their families.

John Marston (Archeology) First Archeological Identification of Nixtamalized Maize, From Two Pit Latrines at the Ancient Maya Site of San Bartolo, Guatemala (Journal of Archeological Science, July 2022) Marston and co-authors discovered archaeological evidence of nixtamalization of maize, the method used to create masa dough for tortillas and tamales, from a 9th-century context at the Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. This is the first direct evidence for nixtamalization ever documented archaeologically.

Jessica T. Simes (Sociology) Prenatal Healthcare After Sentencing Reform: Heterogeneous Effects for Prenatal Healthcare Access and Equity (BMC Public Health, May 2022) Simes and co-author use Pennsylvania’s criminal sentencing reform as a way to evaluate the role of imprisonment in whether a birthing people will attain early and adequate prenatal care. They find that communities where prison admissions numbers decreased, there was an increase in early and adequate prenatal care. They also found that this trend was most noticeable among those with lower educational attainment and Black birthing people.

Charles Chang (Linguistics) Sociophonetic Variation Amount Asian Americans: The Role of Ethnicity and Style (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2022) Danielle Dionne (Linguistics) and Chang study sociophonetic variation of 23 Asia Americans, representing four ethnic groups (Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese), finding similarities and difference in speech production.

Heather Mooney (Sociology) So You’ve Provincialized the Canon. Now What? (Teaching Sociology, May 2022) Mooney and co-author write about how to teach the canon of social theories today. They discuss instructors’ attempts to “provincialize” classic texts in their courses and incorporate critics and diversity the authors they teach. Mooney and co-author raise new concerns surrounding the teaching of canonical works and provide a framework.

Heba Gowayed (Sociology) Refuge (Princeton University Press, April 2022) In this book, Gowayed spends three years following the lives of Syrian refugees who fled to Canada, the United States, and Germany. While centering her discussion on the human experience of displacement, Gowayed shows how each country handles its refugee population and how that impacts the families’ integration into the new society.

Deborah Carr (Sociology) The Effect of Physical Limitations on Depressive Symptoms over the Life Course: Is Optimism a Protective Buffer? (The Journal of Gerontology: Series B, April 2022) Carr and co-authors find that optimism protects against depressive symptoms among midlife adults with disability, yet the same protective effects do not extend to older adults.

Luke Glowacki (Anthropology) Key Individuals Catalyse Intergroup Violence (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, April 2022) Glowacki and co-author argue that key individuals initiating violence help coalitionary aggression emerge. They discuss some traits and processes in which key individuals acts as a catalyst, and assist in the development of coalitionary violence.

Luke Glowacki (Anthropology) Are Strangers Just Enemies You Have Not Yet Met? Group Homogeneity, Not Intergroup Relations, Shapes Ingroup Bias in Three Natural Groups (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, April 2022) Glowacki and co-authors study the relationship between homogeneity and ingroup bias, finding that ingroup bias appears as positive concern for members of their ingroup which is further amplified when an ingroup is homogenous.

Jonathan Mijs (Sociology). Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality (Social Justice Research, April 2022) Mijs and coauthors work to understand why people underestimate the extent of economic inequality and as a result are less likely to support increased taxes and wealth redistribution to address inequality. The authors work to understand how social interactions help us develop our understanding of wealth and income inequality.

Katherine Levine Einstein (Political Science), David M. Glick (Political Science), and Maxwell Palmer (Political Science). (OpenBU, March 2022) 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. The 2021 Menino Survey of Mayors is a nationally representative survey of American mayors and is based on interviews with 126 sitting mayors from 39 states. In this edition, the Survey discusses mayors’ opinions on COVD-19 recovery, equity and small business, closing the racial wealth gap, and housing and homelessness.

Jonathan Mijs (Sociology). Adolescents’ Future in the Balance of Family, School, and the Neighborhood: A Multidimensional Application of Two Theoretical Perspectives. (Social Science Quarterly, March 2022) Mijs and co-author evaluate whether cultural resources (family, school, and neighborhood) foster or depress educational aspirations, expectations, and performance.

Joseph Harris (Sociology) and Jonathan Shaffer (Sociology). Comparing Disciplinary Engagement in Global Research Across the Social Sciences (Social Science Quarterly, March 2022) Harris and Shaffer review contributions to global health made by individuals in the major social science disciplines, which they define as anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.

Katherine Levine Einstein (Political Science, David M. Glick (Political Science), and Maxwell Palmer (Political Science). Developing a Pro-Housing Movement? Public Trust of Developers, Fractured Coalitions, and the Challenges of Measuring Political Power (Interest Groups & Advocacy, March 2022). Levine Einstein, Glick, and Palmer evaluate the increasing power that homeowners and homeowner interest groups have to influence federal, state, and local policy. The authors argue that developers and their perceived profit-seeking behavior may have worked to limit the development of new housing and may lead to the rise of housing reform coalitions.

Ian Sue Wing (Earth & Environment) Heterogeneous climate change impacts on electricity demand in world cities circa mid-century (Scientific Reports, March 2022) Sue Wing and co-author evaluate energy consumption patterns during hot and cold hours in 36 cities. They find that the large temperature increases in tropical cities are offset by consumers’ willingness to consume regardless of changing prices or income. This contributes to lower air conditioning penetration.

Jonathan Mijs (Sociology). “Belief in Meritocracy Reexamined: Scrutinizing the Role of Subjective Social Mobility” (SSocial Psychology Quarterly, February 18, 2022). Mijs and co-authors study how meritocratic beliefs about success relate to individuals’ social mobility experiences. They find that subjective upward mobility is associated with stronger meritocratic beliefs, and downward mobility is associated with stronger structuralist beliefs—but has no bearing on people’s meritocracy beliefs.

Stephen Kalberg (Sociology). Max Weber’s Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction (Routledge). Kalberg examines civilizations through the broad lens articulated by the works of Max Weber. This volume reconstructs Weber’s sociology in a manner that provides clear guidelines to researchers seeking to investigate civilizations systematically.

David M. Carballo (Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies). “Governance Strategies in Precolonial Central Mexico.” (Frontiers in Political Science, February 2022). Carballo shows how governance varied synchronically and diachronically in central Mexico across these axes, and especially in relation to resource dilemmas, fiscal financing, the relative strength of corporate groups versus patron-client networks, and how rulership was legitimated.

David M. Carballo (Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies). “Communication, Computation, and Governance: A Multiscalar Vantage on the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World.” (Journal of Social Computing, February 2022).Carballo and co-author Gary M. Fennman illustrate how institutional differences in governance had a marked effect on the specific modes and technologies through which prehispanic Mesoamerican peoples communicated across time and space.

Peter Blake (Psychological & Brain Sciences). “From “Haves” to “Have Nots”: Developmental Declines in Subjective Social Status Reflect Children’s Growing Consideration of What They Do Not Have” (Cognition, February 2022). Blake and colleagues find that children may increasingly consider what they lack to determine their status.

Parker Shipton (Anthropology). Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture Belonging (Berghahn Books, February 2022).  In this edited volume anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Joseph Harris (Sociology) “American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South.” (Sociological Perspectives, January 2022). Harris and co-author Rebecca Farber (BU Sociology PhD, 2019 and assistant professor of sociology at William & Mary) examine the reasons why U.S. medical sociology journals and conferences pay scant attention to global health concerns, despite their intensifying importance.

Heba Gowayed (Sociology) and Ashley Mears (Sociology). “Pause, Pivot, and Shift: Situational Human Capital and Responses to Sudden Job Loss.” (American Behavioral Scientist,  January 14, 2022). The authors, with co-author Nicholas Occhiuto, examine how workers respond to rapid changes in the labor market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. They find government unemployment benefits to be insufficient as they focus on workers’ pauses, yet neglect to support workers as they pivot and shift during periods of labor market instability and disruption.

Jessica Simes (Sociology). “The Consequences of Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act for Police Arrests.” (PLOS One, January 12, 2022). Simes and Jacquelyn Jahn show that expanded Medicaid insurance reduced police arrests, particularly drug-related arrests. They conclude that broad health policy reforms can meaningfully reduce contact with the criminal justice system under historic conditions of mass criminalization.

Deborah Carr (Sociology). “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: Assessing the Role of Subjective Life Expectancy.” (Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, January 9, 2022). Carr and Yifan Lou show that persons who are unsure of their future survival are less likely to do advance care planning, although these perceptions do not explain away persistent race disparities in ACP. Doctor-patient conversations about the likely course of one’s illness may inform patients’ knowledge of their SLE, which may motivate timely ACP.