{"id":15925,"date":"2026-01-12T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?page_id=15925"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:31:07","slug":"2026-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/community\/publications\/2026-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn about the latest books, journal articles, and reports of BU social scientists here.<\/p>\n

The Center\u2019s mission is to promote the work of Boston University\u2019s social science faculty and our affiliates. If you have or know of someone who has a new publication, please email us at ciss@bu.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/strong>Deborah Carr<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Director) Midlife in the United States (MIDUS Refresher 2), 2022-2024 <\/strong>(National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, Mar 2026)<\/a> Carr and her co-investigators on the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) are pleased to announce the release of the 2022-24 wave of follow-up data from the Refresher Sample. These data are now publicly available at ICPSR at University of Michigan. MIDUS data allow explorations of how working conditions, relationships, health, finances, and more affect health and well-being over the life course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amanda Tarullo<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (CAS\/Psychological & Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) ‘It all depends on your faith’: Spiritual illnesses and traditional healing in rural Limpopo Province, South Africa<\/strong> (Journal of Biosocial Science,<\/em> Mar 2026)<\/a> Tarullo and her colleagues sought to understand local explanatory models for illness and patient experiences with different traditional health practitioners (THPs) among a population of rural women in Limpopo, South Africa.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong>Erik Peinert<\/a> (CAS\/Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy<\/strong> (Socio-Economic Review, <\/em>Mar 2026)<\/a> Peinert and his co-author show how public and private actors strove to change the interlocked legal regime governing domestic and global intellectual property (IP) rights and antitrust policy to prioritize the value of intangible assets like IP, shifting the distribution of profits among firms and contributing to the \u2018fissuring\u2019 of industrial organization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Jonathan Mijs<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Affiliate)\u00a0Visualizing Belief in Merit and Privilege, 1930 to 2020: Rejoinder <\/strong>(Socius<\/em>, Mar 2026<\/a>) In this publication, Mijs offers a two-dimensional visualization of the perceived importance of\u00a0<\/span>merit<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(hard work) and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>privilege<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(family wealth), extended to trace changes in public beliefs between 1930 and 2020 across countries in the West. Jointly examining popular beliefs about the importance of merit and privilege brings into focus the predominant belief in merit, in all countries and time periods.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Jonathan R. Zatlin<\/a> (CAS\/History)\u00a0History as Mourning, Memory as Melancholia: Weimar, Past and Future <\/strong>(Project Muse<\/em>, Feb 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Zatlin and his colleagues make use of the Weimar Republic to suggest that the way we imagine the passing of time\u2014as repetition or progress\u2014is not simply an expression of our politics but also determines why and how we recall the past.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deborah Carr<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Director)\u00a0Social Relationship Quality and Cognitive Function: The Roles of Gender, Race\/Ethnicity, and Depression <\/strong>(The Gerontologist,<\/em>\u00a0Feb 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Carr and her co-authors examines the extent to which the quality of one’s relationships with spouse, children, friends, and other family members are associated with cognitive function in older adults by gender and racial identities, along with the mediation effect of depressive symptoms for these associations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"D<\/span><\/a>avid A. Mayers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(CAS\/History) <\/span>Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 <\/strong>(Cambridge University Press, Jan 2026<\/a>) Mayers recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935\u201341. The lives and stories of this diverse group shed light on the contested nature of American ambitions, aims, and national purpose, and destabilize what it means to be ‘American.’<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Raymond Fisman<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Economics & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Audit Centralization and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Cities <\/strong>(Journal of Accounting and Economics<\/em>, Feb 2025<\/a>) <\/span>Fisman and his colleagues find that financial (but not human) resources devoted to city audits increase with centralization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Hyeouk Chris Hahm<\/span><\/a> (SSW\/Social Work & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Proactive Coping with Racial Discrimination May Exacerbate Race-Based Traumatic Stress in Diverse Young Adults <\/strong>(Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology<\/em>, Feb 2025<\/a>) <\/span>Hahm and her coauthors test proactive coping as a moderator of the association between everyday discrimination and race-based traumatic stress symptoms.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Pamela Zabala Ortiz<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Black like this, not like that: how Afro-Latines navigate Black and Latine ethnoracial hierarchies in the U.S. <\/strong>(<\/span>Ethic and Racial Studies<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>)<\/span> Zabala Ortiz highlights the experiences of Afro-Latines as they navigate the hierarchies that emerge within the spaces of both Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Joshua Robinson<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>The Botanic Age: Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution <\/strong><\/strong>(<\/span>American Antiquity,<\/em>\u00a0Jan 2026<\/a>) Robinson proposes that our hominim ancestors applied knowledge of working with plant raw materials to new domains when they moved to the ground in response to forest fragmentation caused by late-Miocene climate change.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Benjamin Siegel<\/a> (CAS\/History & CISS Affiliate) Laboratory of Empire: Calcutta, Opium, and the Wartime Invention of Regulation <\/strong>(The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) Siegel argues that second World War-era experiments in Calcutta transformed opium from a fiscal commodity into an object of moral and bureaucratic concern, linking the crisis of empire to the rise of global governance and tracing how the habits of the Raj survived in the languages of development and expertise. This article reconstructs an unexpected collaboration between the Office of Strategic Services, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the Government of India, showing how wartime intelligence produced new ways of knowing and administering colonial society.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Quinn Slobodian<\/span><\/a> (Pardee) <\/span>Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment <\/strong>(Oxford University Research Archive<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in this series of comments bringing together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Peter R. Blake<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Psychological & Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>The role of social comparison and emotion in children\u2019s fairness judgments <\/strong>(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Blake and his coauthors examined the role of emotions is shaping fairness judgments, both when the child was a recipient and when other children were.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"John M. Marston<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Climate Change and World History: Evidence from the Site of Sym-Ota 1 in the Aral Sea Basin <\/strong>(Quaternary Science Advances<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Marston and his colleagues present new radiocarbon dating and environmental data from the river-adjacent site of Sym-Ota 1 at the base of the Khorezmian pivot that indicates inhabitants were able to modify the main channel of the Amu Darya 700 years earlier than previously known, by ca. 300 BCE suggesting that the hydromorphology of the Amu Darya delta has been shaped by over 2,000 years of human ecosystem engineering.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Cheryl Knott<\/a>\u00a0(CAS\/Anthropology),\u00a0Faye Harwell<\/a>\u00a0(CAS\/Anthropology) and\u00a0Erin Kane<\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology)\u00a0Sex Differences in Estimated Lean Body Mass of Captive and Wild Orangutans <\/strong>(American Journal of Biological Anthropology<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Knott, Harwell, Kane and their co-authors investigate muscle mass differences of wild and captive orangutans among the age-sex classes while accounting for flange status.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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