Publications

Professor David Mayers Publishes New Book

Professor David Mayers has published a new book, Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935–1941, that 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 1935–41. Professor Mayers identifies these individuals as ‘seekers’ and […]

Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil published with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil recently co-authored a report with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies. The Lebanese Diaspora Philanthropy Report can be found here: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/08/2025-Philanthropy-Report-Final.pdf

Professor Spencer Piston and Graduate Student Chas Walker Published in Annual Review of Political Science

Professor Spencer Piston and grad student Chas Walker have published a new article on racism in research and the study of policing (co-authored with Kaneesha Johnson and Selma Hedlund) in Annual Review of Political Science. Read the full article here: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-033123-124752

Graduate Student Chas Walker published in Criminology

Grad student Chas Walker has been published in Criminology, the top journal in the field of criminology and criminal justice. He and his coauthors apply the sociological theory of racialized organizations to criminal legal organizations using evidence from seven recent book-length ethnographies of police, courts, and jails. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12397