Selected Major Articles Published in 2024

John Basl, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Student Co-author: Omri Leshem

Breaking ChatGPT to Fix Echo Bambers?

Blog of the APA

Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Student Co-author: Keanna Smigliani

As Spirituality Rises, Many Young People are Redefining and Rethinking Religion

Teen Vogue

Megan Denver, Director of the Corrections and Reentry Lab; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Student Co-author: Abby Ballou

What’s in a label? Public use and perceptions of labeling alternatives in criminology

Justice Quarterly

Kevin Drakulich, Associate Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; PhD Program Director; Director of Race and Justice Lab

Student Co-author: Cassidy Pereira

Altruistic concern: how racial ideologies explain racial differences in concerns for Black victims of crime and the police

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Amy Farrell, Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Carlos Cuevas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Student Co-authors: Priscila de Azevedo Drummond

Enhancing detection of labor violations in the agricultural sector: A multilevel generalized linear regression model of H-2A violation counts

PLOS One

Amy Farrell, Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Carlos Cuevas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Student Co-authors: Amelia Wagner, Sarah Lockwood

Prevalence of neurodevelopmental, mental, and behavioral disorders in a sample of U.S. commercially sexually exploited youth, and associations with health and health care access

Journal of Human Trafficking

Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy

Student Co-author: Aliya Kitsakos, Kathryn Trovato

Hospice Satisfaction Among Patients, Family, and Caregivers: A Systematic Review of the Literature

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine

Aleksandra Jakubowski, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Economics

Student Co-authors: Dennis Egger, Ronald Mulebeke, Pius Akankwasa, Allan Muruta, Noah Kiwanuka, and Rhoda K. Wanyenze

Evaluation of a national program to distribute free face masks in Uganda: Evidence from Mbale District

PLoS ONE 

Shantanu Khanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Student Co-authors: Ashwini Deshpande and Daksh Walia

An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program 

Journal of Population Economics

Laura Kuhl, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Student Co-authors: Laurent Frapaise and Kelsi Furman

Mental models for inclusive, socially-just disaster planning: a multi-community study in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma

Disasters

Valentine Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Student Co-author: Marissa Goolgasian

Women, Militarism, and Political Representation: The Case of Armenia 

Journal of International Women’s Studies

Daniel O’Brien, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative

Student Co-authors: Alex Deng, Edgar Castro, and Sage Gibbons

To ride-hail or not to ride-hail? Complementarity and competition between public transit and TNCs through the lens of app data

Public Transport

Nishith Prakash, Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Student Co-author: Sofia Amaral

Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Policing: Experimental Evidence from Urban India

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Eric Piza, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives, Co-Director Crime Prevention lab

Brandon  Welsh, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, Co-Director, Crime Prevention Lab

Student Co-authors: Savannah A. Reid and David N. Hatten

Can place-based crime prevention impacts be sustained over long durations? 11-Year follow-up of a quasi-experimental evaluation of a CCTV project

Criminology & Public Policy

Madhavi Venkatesan,Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

Student Co-authors: Khadija Elsewedy, Shruti Vummadising, and Brandon Gunasti

Sustainability: A Business Case for Adoption

Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices

Richard Wamai, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Student Co-author: Bishnu Thapa

Do targeted intergovernmental fiscal transfers improve health outcomes? Evidence from Kenyan decentralization using the difference-in-differences technique

Health Research Policy and Systems

Gregory Zimmerman, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master’s Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Student Co-author: Daniel Trovato

Contextualizing school discipline: Examining the role of general peer and teacher discrimination at the individual- and school-level on individual suspension

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Health Sciences

Epistemic Maneuvers as Mechanisms of Environmental Racism: How Pesticide Exposure is Sustained against Mexican FarmworkersHow Social Infrastructure Saves Lives: A Quantitative Analysis of Japan’s 3/11 Disasters

Environmental Sociology

Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

Even More Is Required: Confronting the Teacher Pay Crisis in the United States

History of Education Quarterly

Ekaterina Botchkovar, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

When the World Falls Apart: How People Make Decisions in the Times of War

Crime & Delinquency

Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

Engaged and Reflexive Sociology for Environmental Health

Environmental Science & Technology

Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

The Future of Public Scholarship

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies

Sacred Cites: Engaging the Spiritual in Ethnographic Knowledge (Re)Production

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

Cali-Ryan Collin, Associate Teaching Professor

Impact of the virtual learning environment on interprofessional simulation outcomes: A mixed-methods study

Journal of Rural Mental Health

Kathleen Creel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

To Hedge or Not to Hedge: Scientific Claims and Public Justification

Philosophy of Science

Carlos Cuevas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Prevalence of neurodevelopmental, mental, and behavioral disorders in a sample of U.S. commercially sexually exploited youth, and associations with health and health care access

Journal of Human Trafficking

Candice Delmas, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

The Right to Hunger Strike

American Political Science Review

Megan Denver, Director of the Corrections and Reentry Lab; Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

What’s in a label? Public use and perceptions of labeling alternatives in criminology

Justice Quarterly

Kevin Drakulich, Associate Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director of Race and Justice Lab

Altruistic concern: how racial ideologies explain racial differences in concerns for Black victims of crime and the police

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Bilge Erten, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Women’s Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt

Feminist Economics

Daniel Faber, Professor of Sociology

Jane McAlevey and the Politics of Deep Labor Organizing

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2024.2392948

Don Fallis, Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Accuracy-First Epistemology and Scientific Progress

Ergo

Amy Farrell, Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Explaining the use of traditional law enforcement responses to human trafficking concerns in illicit massage businesses

Justice Quarterly

Sina Fazelpour, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Red teaming AI: The devil is in the details

Tech Policy Press

Branden Fitelson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Remarks on Ángel Pinillos’s Why We Doubt

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism

Peter Fraunholtz, Assistant Teaching Professor in History and International Affairs

From Ambivalence to Accuracy: The Provisional Government’s Grain Registration in an Intermediary Province, Penza 1917

The Russian Review

Natasha Frost, Associate Dean of Research; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice, and Gregory Zimmerman, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master’s Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Examining Differences in the Individual and Contextual Risk Factors for Police Officer, Correctional Officer, and Non-Protective Service Suicides

Justice Quarterly

Gabriela Garcia, Assistant Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences and Public Policy

Intrinsic yield fluctuations interact with environmental shocks to threaten the socio-ecological resilience of perennial crop systems

One Earth

Damon Hall, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

How to close the loop with citizen scientists to advance meaningful science

Sustainability Science

Damon Hall, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

From youth engagement to policy insights: Identifying and testing food systems’ sustainability indicators

Environmental Science & Policy

Katherine Hazen, Assistant Research Professor of Criminal Justice and Health Sciences

The Children’s Justice Clinic: Ensuring high-quality legal representation for children through clinical legal education

Family Court Review

Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy

Why Retail Health Clinics Failed

Harvard Business Review 

Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology

“More About the Neighborhood Than the School”: Leveraging “Don’t Know” Survey Responses to Probe Parental Evaluations of School Safety

AERA Open

Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Challenges to Transforming Narratives and Seeing Others

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Shantanu Khanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics

An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program

Journal of Population Economics

Denise Khor, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies and Associate Director of Asian American Studies

The World of the Benshi

The Yanai Initiative

Risa Kitagawa, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Measuring Political Narratives in African News Media: A Word Embeddings Approach

Journal of Politics

Laura Kuhl, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund

Climate Policy

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics

Inherently Stable Cartels: Economics and Policy

University of Baltimore Law Review

Revisiting Structural Remedies

Antitrust 

Matthew Lee, Teaching Professor of Human Services

Making Waves in Academia: Asian/Asian American Feminist Mentoring as Activism

Women & Therapy

Ermus St. Louis, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Depolicing in Chicago: Contrasting Patrol Officer and Specialized Unit Activity in the Aftermath of the Laquan McDonald Video Release

Crime & Delinquency

Jun Ma, Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Commodity Returns Co-movement, Uncertainty Shocks, and the US Dollar Exchange Rate

Journal of International Money and Finance

Meica Magnani, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Can Computer Science Students Write Philosophy Papers? Using Value Analysis Design for Philosophical Reflection and Writing

AAPT Studies in Pedagogy

Mindy Marks, Associate Professor of Economics

2018 Government Shutdown and SNAP Benefits’ Timing: Can Food Stamps Recipients Smooth Consumption?

Review of Economics of the Household

Michael McCluskey, Associate Teaching Professor in English

Queer Data: Ronald Firbank and the Information Economy

CUSP: Late 19th/Early 20th Century Cultures 2:1

Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice

Strong ties, strong homophily? Variation in homophily on sociodemographic characteristics by relationship strength

Social Forces

William Miles, Professor of Political Science

Niger’s Long Cycle of Poverty and Coups

Current History

Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs

Times of Violence, Times of Justice

London Review of International Law

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center

Year-Round Benefits from Summer Jobs

Education Next

Valentine Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

The Gendered Politics of Iran-U.S. Relations: Sanctions, the JCPOA, and Women’s Security

Third World Quarterly

Shariq Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Economics

Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools

Journal of Economic History

Sharmila Murthy, Professor of Law and Public Policy

Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice

Stanford Law Review

Tiffany Nichols, Assistant Professor of History and Civil and Environmental Engineering; Legacy Survey of Space and Time Discovery Alliance Catalyst Faculty Fellow

Hidden in Plain Sight: Discerning Signal from Noise in the Expanded Laboratory Environment

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 

Daniel O’Brien, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative; Director

Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime

Criminology

Eric Piza, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives, Co-Director Crime Prevention lab

Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago: Differences Across Citizen Race and Incident Type

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Nishith Prakash, Professor of Public Policy and Economics

When Criminality Begets Crime: Role of Elected Politician in India

Journal of Law, Economics and Organization

Silvia Prina, Professor of Economic

Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes

Nature Human Behavior

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology

Coverage of Tucker Carlson’s Demonic Assault Missed the Importance of the Man he Shared the Story With

Religion Dispatches

Vance Ricks, Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Move Fast and Fake Things. Future Tense Thinking

Issues in Science and Technology

Matthew Ross, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling

Journal of Human Resources

Sasha Sabherwal, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies

The Elasticity Of Caste In The Sikh Diaspora: Jat Cool and Caste Masculinities in the Pacific Northwest

Journal of Asian American Studies

Ron Sandler, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Ethics Institute

Conservation Philosophy After the End of ‘Nature? The Case for Ameliorating Rather than Eliminating ‘Nature’

Environmental Ethics

Mary Steffel, Associate Professor of Marketing; Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor

How academics and policymakers can collaborate effectively: Lessons from using behavioral science to improve U.S. federal government policies

Behavioral Science and Policy

Jennie Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy

The dangers of masculine technological optimism: Why feminist, antiracist values are essential for social justice, economic justice, and climate justice

Environmental Ethics

Michael Thornton, Assistant Teaching Professor of History

Towards a Japanese paradigm of settler-colonial urbanism?

Urban History

Anncy Thresher, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Support US OCTOPUS Act to Keep Octopuses Wild

Science

Kellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Competition and Coordination: Regional Dynamics in the Rise of China’s New Energy Vehicle Industry

Sustainability

Richard Wamai, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Lancet

Richard Wamai, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950-2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Lancet

Yafeng Wang, Assistant Teaching Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account

European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Brandon Welsh, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, Co-Director, Crime Prevention Lab

Effects of disorder-style policing on crime: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Criminology & Public Policy

Benjamin Yelle, Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy

An Experiential Learning Opportunity in Norway: Computation for Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Students

Journal of Biomechanics Engineering

Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; Co-Director of NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

Participatory modeling for collaborative landscape and environmental planning: From potential to realization

Landscape and Urban Planning