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Spring 2025 Publications

Anthropology

Weyher, A.H., Katinta, M., Mubemba, B., Petersdorf, M., Kamilar, J.M., Schneider-Crease, I.A., & Chiou, K.L. (2025). A friendlier "Kinda" social system: Male Kinda baboons invest in long-term social bonds with females. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25056 

Wolf, L.A., & Arnold, L. (2025). Medical-legal communication among emergency nurses in states with abortion bans. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 55(4), E17-E23. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000001562 


Communication

Baykurt, B. (2025). Gov-tech as capture: Public infrastructures under data capitalism. Information, Communication, & Society, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2479788 


Economics

Burrage, A., Dasgupta, N., & Ganguli, I. (2025). Gender diversity in academic entrepreneurship: Social impact motives and the NSF I-corps program. Research Policy, 54(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105169. 

Terrell, K., St. Julien, G., & Ash, M. (2025). Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce. Ecological Economics, 235(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108623 


Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning

Qiu, J., Nassauer, J.I., Ahern, J., Huang, L., Reed, J., Ding, S., Guo, J., Liu, Z., Ou, W., Ouyang, Z., Shi, P., Tao, Y., Zheng, X., & Wu, J. (2025). Advancing landscape sustainability science: Key challenges and strategies for integration with landscape design and planning. Landscape Ecology, 40(25). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02042-4 

Smialek, A., Albrecht, T.R., & Milman, A. (2025). Institutional dependencies shape adaptation pathways for local service providers: A study of US water utilities responding to climatic stressors. Environmental Science & Policy, 164(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103982.


Public Policy

Katz, J., Ely, T.L., & Calabrese, T.D. (2025). Who determines where the sun shines: Nonprofit sector stakeholders and the IRS Form 990 redesign. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640251332892 

Pang, M.R. (2025). Reducing and channelling discontent: How ruling party institutionalization helps autocracies curb anti-government protest. Democratization, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2461467 

Rice, L.L., Sharrow, E., & Martinez-Ebers, V. (2025). From public engagement to civically engaged research. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2463076 

Shoub, K., Scott, J.S., & Christiani, L. (2025). The racialization of the United States Supreme Court? Examining changes in public opinion toward SCOTUS over time. Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-025-10043-5 


Resource Economics

Churchill, B.F., & Srivastava, S. (2025). Effects of environmental exposures on weight-related health behaviors and outcomes. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 131(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103138 

Feyzollahi, M., & Rafizadeh, N. (2025). The adoption of Large Language Models in economics research. Economics Letters, 250(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112265 

Joiner, K.A., & Lin, J. (2025). Shall we blame health IT for Medicare overpayments? New evidence from Medicare recovery audit program. Contemporary Economic Policy, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12680. 

 

Fall 2024 Publications

Anthropology

Bates, A., Nwadiaru, O.V., Goldstein, A., Cantor, J., Cowan, M., Shokooh, M.P., & Harper, K. (2024). Whose low-carbon future? Community perceptions and expectations on the renewable energy transition in a post-industrial city. Energy Research & Social Science, 118(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103781. 

Sandel, A.A., Scott, J.E., & Kamilar, J.M. (2024). Primate behavior and the importance of comparative studies in biological anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186(S78). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70009 

Leidy Seivert, L., Shreyer, S.,  Witkowski, S., & Brown, D.E. (2024). Brown adipose tissue activity and childhood exposure to cold are associated with hot flashes at menopause. American Journal of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24148.


Communication

Lanuza, J.M.H., & Ong, J.C. (2025). From disinformation campaigns to influence operations: New campaign tactics and legacy media bypass in the Philippines. In Lilleker, D., Jackson, D., Kalsnes, B., Mellado, C., Trevisan, F., & Veneti, A. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of political campaigning. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Political-Campaigning/Lilleker-Jackson-Kalsnes-Mellado-Trevisan-Veneti/p/book/9781032356716 

Martins, N., Scharrer, E., & Riddle, K. (2024). News exposure, depression, and PTSD symptoms among adolescents in the US: A case study of the Uvalde school shooting. Journal of Children and Media, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2443664. 

Zhou, C.Y., Scharrer, E., & Durrani, A. (2024). Deconstruction gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents. Journal of Children and Media, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2394948.


Economics

Dube, A., Reich, M., Bhatt, A., & Sosinskit, D. (2024, September). Restaurant employment, minimum wages, and border discontinuities (NBER Working Paper No. 32902). https://doi.org/10.3386/w32902.

Ganguli, I., Lin, J. Meursault, V., & Reynolds, N.F. (2024, September). Patent text and long-run innovation dynamics: The critical role of model selection. (NBER Working Paper No. 32931. https://doi.org/10.3386/w32934. 

Sher, I. (2024). Generalized social marginal welfare weights imply inconsistent comparisons of tax policies. American Economic Review, 114(11), 3551-77. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20211025. 

Vicarelli, M., Georgescu, A., & Sudmeier-Rieux, K. (2024). Cost-benefit and equity analysis of nature-based solutions in Haiti, India, Indonesia, and Uganda. Nature-Based Solutions, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100196. 


Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning

Eisenman, T.S., Roman, L., Östberg, L.A., Campbell, L.K., & Svendsen, E. (2024). Beyong the Golden Shovel: Recommendations for a successful urban tree planting initiative. Journal of the American Planning Association, 91(1), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2024.2330943 

Infield, E., Seasons, M., & Lyles, W. (2024). Teaching climate change planning: Fostering hope while building capacity. Planning Practice & Research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2024.2416298.


 Resource Economics

Cropper, M., Dunlop, S., Hinshaw, H., Landrigan, P., Park, Y., and Symeonides, C. (2024). The benefits of removing toxic chemicals from plastics. PNAS, 121(52). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2412714121.

Fitzsimmons, J.A., & Kim, T. (2024). Agrivoltaic tools for perennial and field crop farmers. Journal of Extension, 62(3), Article 12. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol62/iss3/12.

Fitzsimmons, J.A., Kinchla, A.J., & Allingham, C. (2024). Assessing the cost barrier for small and medium food processing businesses to meet preventive controls for human food standards. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306618.  

Koirala, D.P., & Rahut, D. (2024). Multidimensional energy poverty and its effects on household consumption and savings: Evidence from Nepal. Heliyon, 10(21). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402415832X.  


School of Public Policy

Carneiro, G., Moraes, T.G., & Rossini, C. (2024). Agile governance for an agile future: Sandboxes for promoting responsible innovation [policy brief]. G20. https://t20brasil.org/media/documentos/arquivos/TF05_ST_03_Agile_Governance_fo66ccd375c4ae7.pdf.  

Global Future Council on the Future of Technology. (2024). Technology policy: Responsible design for a flourishing world. World Economic Forum. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Technology_Policy_Responsible_Design_Flourishing_World_2024.pdf 

Vicarelli, M., Georgescu, A., & Sudmeier-Rieux, K. (2024). Cost-benefit and equity analysis of nature-based solutions in Haiti, India, Indonesia, and Uganda. Nature-Based Solutions, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100196.


Sociology

Bagchi, C., Menczer, F., Lundquist, J., Tarafdar, M., Paik, A., & Grabowicz (2024). Social media algorithms can curb misinformation, but do they? (electronic response to Guess, A.M., et al. (2023). How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? Science, 381(6656), 398-404). https://zenodo.org/records/13787981 .

Lundquist, J., Lin, K.H., & Curington, C. (2024). Interracial unions and racial assortative mating in an age of growing diversity, shifting intimate relationships, and emerging technologies. Annual Review of Sociology, 50, 431-453. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-083023-023534

Moore, T.R., Pachucki, M.C., & Economos, C.D. (2024). Determinants and facilitators of community coalition diffusion of prevention efforts. PLOS Complex Systems, 1(1): e000004. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000004

Shrier, L.A., McCaskill, N.H., Smith, M.C., O’Connell, M.M., Gluskin, B.S., Parker, S., Everett, V., Burke, P.J., & Harris, S.K. (2024). Telehealth counseling plus mHealth intervention for cannabis use in emerging adults: Development and a remote open pilot trial. Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment, 166(209472). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2024.209472.

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