Selected Major Articles Published in 2025

Daniel Aldrich, Dean’s Professor of Resilience, Director, MS Resilience Studies Program

Student Co-authors: Gloria Schmitz; Madeline Craig-Scheckman; Shalini Matharage; and Hayden Libershal

A geospatial and quantitative analysis of agricultural exemption passes during the California wildfires

Environmental Hazards 

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

Student co-authors: Sarah Lockwood; Rachel Chavez

The effect of bias victimization on mental health outcomes among a sample of Latinx adults

Journal of Interpersonal Violence 

Carolin Fuchs, Teaching Professor of German and English; Academic Coordinator of the German Program; Coordinator of Online Teaching and Learning

Student co-author: Hannah Ferguson

Longitudinal civic engagement: Undergraduate students’ reflections on an intergenerational virtual exchange

AILA Review 

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics

Student co-author: Muhammad Shabanpour

Praying for Inflation: How Market Concentration Facilitates Inflationary Pressures Antitrust

Chronicle

Kris Manjapra, Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies

Student co-author: James Chiyoki Ikeda

Feeling Right, In Solidarity: Place-Based Performance Loops and Anti-Gentrification in Black

Cambridgeport Transition Magazine 

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

Student co-author: Forrest Hangen

Linking landlords to uncover ownership obscurity

Housing Studies

Eric Piza, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives

Student co-authors: Savannah Reid; Christina Palermo

Using Automated Vehicle Locator Data to Classify Discretionary Police Patrol Across Space

Journal of Criminal Justice

Brandon Welsh, Dean’s Professor of Criminology; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study; Director, Crime Prevention Lab

Student co-author:  Heather Patterson

Iatrogenic effects and the myth of the downfall of delinquency prevention: Joan McCord and the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, 1975-2004

British Journal of Criminology

Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Student co-author: Virginia Martinez

Language Barriers and Healthcare Challenges for Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency After Health Reform in the United States

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Kevin Drakulich, Amy Farrell and Carlos Cuevas

Student Co-authors: Sarah Lockwood, Alexis Yohros

Unveiling the Nexus: How Bias Victimization Experiences Amongst Latinx Communities Impacts Political Engagement

Social Science Quarterly

Bilge Erten, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Student Co-author: Yunus Cem Yilmaz

Hospital Supply and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Islamic Political Representation in Turkey

Journal of Population Economics

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

Student Co-author: Amelia Wagner

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

 Human Trafficking 

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

Student Co-author: Kaley A. Jones

The Impact of School Transitions on Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Variations by Network Position and Friendship Stability

Deviant Behavior

Greg 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: Cassie DiBenedetti

Examining the Dynamics of Asian American and American Indian Homicide Victimization in the United States 

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Amilcar Barreto, Professor, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; Affiliated faculty member of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Race, Worthiness and Attenuated Citizenship: Puerto Ricans in the Post-Cold War Era

National Identities 

Gorka Basterretxea Santiso, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish

Fallo garrafal y común entre vascoparlantes: attitudes and salience of grammatical gender agreement in Basque-Spanish contact

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics  

Jonathan Benda, Teaching Professor in English

Formosa Delayed: George H. Kerr’s Struggles Writing About Taiwan

The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 

Linda Blum, Professor of Sociology

Feminist Solidarity or Moralized Body Politics? Online Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Communities and Feminist Health Politics

Gender & Society 

Jianfei Cao, Assistant Professor of Economics

Inference for Dependent Data with Learned Clusters

Review of Economics and Statistics 

Ellen Cushman, Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

7 Unsettling Raciolinguistics: Reclaiming Indigenous Language Practices Author

Multilingual Matters 

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

Does the Amount of Life Lost Due to Homicide Vary across Place? Examining the Relationship between Residential Disadvantage and Potential Years of Life Lost due to Homicide in the United States

Social Science and Humanities

Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology

Racial and ethnic disparities in fecundability: a North American preconception cohort study

Human Reproduction 

Maria Ivanova, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy; Co-Director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern

Strategic Foundations of Science Diplomacy

Science

Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Professor of English

‘How to Handle a Woman’: Aaron Sorkin’s Camelot

Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in Memory of Fiona Tolhurst: Quondam et Futurus 

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

Estimating the Interest Rate Trend in A Shadow Rate Term Structure Model

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Michael McCluskey, Teaching Professor in English

The City of Dreadful Night?

The London Journal  

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

American Economic Review 

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

“One of the Best Sites on the East Coast”: When LIGO Might Have Been in the Blueberry Barrens of Maine

Isis

Nishith Prakash, Professor of Public Policy and Economics

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

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Isabel Sobral Campos, Teaching Professor in English; Undergraduate Program Director

The Optogram of the Mind Is a Carnation Author

Futurepoem

Korey Tillman, Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; Assistant Professor, Africana Studies

Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shapes Who is Human and Who is Not

Journal of Black Studies 

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

Enhancing digital twin technology with community-led, science-driven participatory modeling: A case in green infrastructure planning

Environment & Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 

Kathleen Creel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Allocation Multiplicity: Evaluating the Promises of the Rashomon Set

FAccT ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Candice Delmas, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

How to Diagnose Prisons’ Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers’ Responsibilities

Journal of Applied Philosophy 

Don Fallis, Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, and Kay Mathiesen, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Fake News is Counterfeit News

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy

Sina Fazelpour, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Disciplining Deliberation: A Socio-technical Perspective on Machine Learning Trade-Offs

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Jung H. Lee, Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Undergraduate Program Director (Religious Studies)

Believing in ‘Nothing in Particular’: Religious Nones, Despair, and the Closing of the Immanent Frame

International Journal of Philosophy and Religion 

Vance Ricks, Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science,

and Matthew Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Responsibility and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society

Philosophy and Technology

Ron Sandler, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Ethics Institute

Deliberate Extinction by Genome Modification: An Ethical Challenge

Science

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

Beyond Home Movies: Amateur 16mm Filmmaking, Camera Clubs, and Japanese Americans

A Century in 16mm: The Remaking of Twentieth-Century Cinema 

Valentine Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Scales of Violence: Iranian Kurdistan in Context

International Sociology

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Exploring multilingual writer agency through autoethnography: bargaining, resistance and translingual reality 

International Journal of Multilingualism 

Ekaterina Botchkovar, PhD Program Director; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

The organized activities of ransomware groups: A social network approach

Technology and Society 

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

Multiple dimensions of acculturation and the longitudinal victimization of Latine adolescents

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 

Bilge Erten, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Employment Impacts of the CHIPS Act

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

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

Assessing the use of law enforcement and prosecutorial case files to understand sex trafficking in the United States: Caveats and considerations

Journal of Human Trafficking

Sarah Lageson, Associate Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice & Law

This is Everyone’s Issue’: Policy Entrepreneurs, Issue Framing, and Coalition Building in Record Expungement

Criminology & Public Policy

Beatrice Magistro, Assistant Professor, AI Governance

Attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and globalization: Common microfoundations and political implications

American Journal of Political Science

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

“It’s a start” Former incarcerated adults’ perceptions of second chance employers and policies

Criminology & Public Policy

Valentine Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs

Scales of Violence: Iranian Kurdistan in Context

International Sociology

Eric Piza, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives

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

Xiaoxiao Shen, Assistant Research Professor of Political Science

The Effects of Forced Versus Selective Propaganda Exposure in China 

Political Science Research and Methods  

Madhavi Venkatesan, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics

The Contribution of University Economics Teaching to Sustainability

North American and European Perspectives on Sustainability in Higher Education 

Brandon Welsh, Dean’s Professor of Criminology; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study; Director, Crime Prevention Lab

Between Medicine and Criminology: Richard Cabot and the Making of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study author

Oxford University Press

Shuo Zhang, Assistant Professor of Economics and Computer Science

From Addiction to Aggression: The Spillover Effects of Opioid Policies on Intimate Partner Violence 

Journal of Health Economics

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars: Looking Inward to Move Forward

Multilingual Matters