Below you may find selected research articles from Sociology faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

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Submissions from 2024

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A Constellation Approach to Understanding Extremist White Supremacy, Kathleen Blee, Robert Futrell, and Pete Simi

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Make It Funky for Me: Black British Women’s Explorations of Britishness, Womanhood, and Artistry Through 2000s Music, Monique Charles

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Ideational Diffusion and the Great Witch Hunt in Central Europe, Kerice Doten‑Snitker, Steven Pfaff, and Yuan Hsiao

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Bikeability Disparities in Orange County, California: Intersection of Place and Demographics, Jeanette Gritton, Maria Cristina Martinez, Georgiana Bostean, and Megan Thiele Strong

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context Predicts Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation, Ashley W. Kranjac, Zeev N. Kain, Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Michael Weiss, and Brooke N. Jenkins

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Pediatric Obesity in the United States: Age–Period–Cohort Analysis, Ashley W. Kranjac, Dinko Kranjac, and Roxanne I. Aguilera

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How Threat Mobilizes the Resurgence and Persistence of US White Supremacist Activism: The 1980s to the Present, Pete Simi, Robert Futrell, and Adam Burston

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Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data, Pete Simi, Gina Ligon, Seamus Hughes, and Natalie Standridge

Submissions from 2023

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Adolescent Use and Co-use of Tobacco and Cannabis in California: The Roles of Local Policy and Density of Tobacco, Vape, and Cannabis Retailers Around Schools, Georgiana Bostean, Anton M. Palma, Alison A. Padon, Erik Linstead, Joni Ricks-Oddie, Jason A. Douglas, and Jennifer B. Unger

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A Statewide Study of Disparities in Local Policies and Tobacco, Vape, and Cannabis Retail Environments, Georgiana Bostean, William R. Ponicki, Alisa A. Padon, William J. McCarthy, and Jennifer B. Unger

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Explaining Adult Obesity, Severe Obesity, and BMI: Five Decades of Change, Ashley W. Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac

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Neighborhood Disadvantage and Pediatric Inpatient Opioid Prescription Patterns, Ashley W. Kranjac, Dinko Kranjac, Zeev N. Kain, Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Candice Donaldson, and Brooke N. Jenkins

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Obesity Heterogeneity by Neighborhood Context in a Largely Latinx Sample, Ashley W. Kranjac, Dinko Kranjac, Zeev N. Kain, Louis Ehwerhemuepha, and Brooke N. Jenkins

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Understanding Threats to Public Officials, Peter Simi and Seamus Hughes

Submissions from 2022

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25 Years of Garage Review – Music Documentary Falls Prey to the Same Mistakes That Killed the Scene, Monique Charles

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Findings and Implications from a Project on White Supremacist Entry and Exit Pathways, Matthew DeMichele, Wesley S. McCann, Kathleen Blee, and Peter Simi

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Sympathy for the Devil: Belief in Satan and Moral Beliefs, Scott A. Desmond, Tom Clark, and Christoper D. Bader

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Citizenship Matters: Non-Citizen COVID-19 Mortality Disparities in New York and Los Angeles, Jason A. Douglas, Georgiana Bostean, Angel Miles Nash, Emmanuel B. John, Lawrence M. Brown, and Andrew M. Subica

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Obesogenic Environments and Cardiovascular Disease: A Path Analysis Using US Nationally Representative Data, Fangqi Guo, Georgiana Bostean, Vincent Berardi, Alfredo J. Velasquez, and Jennifer W. Robinette

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(Un)holy Smokes? Religion and Traditional and E-Cigarette Use in the United States, Terrence D. Hill, Georgiana Bostean, Laura Upenieks, John P. Bartkowski, Christopher G. Ellison, and Amy M. Burdette

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Review of Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution, Lynn Horton

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Delinquent Behavior and Dating Violence among Latinx Youth: A Test of Gover’s Theoretical Model of Violent Victimization, Egbert Zavala, Graciela Perez, and Nancy Rios-Contreras

Submissions from 2021

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Xenophobia, Partisanship, and Support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Joseph O. Baker and Christoper Bader

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The Role of Ethnicity and Nativity in the Correspondence between Subjective and Objective Measures of In-Home Smoking, Vincent Berardi, Georgiana Bostean, Lydia Q. Ong, Britney S. Wong, Bradley N. Collins, and Melbourne F. Hovell

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Using Sociological Images to Develop the Sociological Imagination, Georgiana Bostean and Lisa A. Leitz

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Spatial Disparities: The Role of Nativity in Neighborhood Exposure to Alcohol and Tobacco Retailers, Georgiana Bostean, Luis A. Sánchez, and Jason A. Douglas

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Neighborhoods Matter; but for Whom? Heterogeneity of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Child Obesity by Sex, Ashley W. Kranjac, Catherine Boyd, Rachel T. Kimbro, Brady S. Moffett, and Keila N. Lopez

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County-Level Factors That Influenced the Trajectory of COVID-19 Incidence in the New York City Area, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac

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Surgical Patients’ Hospital Experience Scores: Neighborhood Context Conceptual Framework, Ashley Wendell Kranjac, Dinko Kranjac, Michelle A. Fortier, Pat Patton, Brad Giafaglione, and Zeev N. Kain

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Attitudinal Change, Cohort Replacement, and the Liberalization of Attitudes about Same-sex Relationships, 1973–2018, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Robert L. Wagmiller

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Child Obesity Moderates the Association Between Poverty and Academic Achievement, Ashley W. Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac

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Deconstructing Sex Differences in C-reactive Protein Trends Over Time, Ashley W. Kranjac, Dinko Kranjac, and Olivia Lounsbury

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Infectious Ideas: Why Do Radical Innovations Take Root?, Steven Pfaff

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Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Why Governance Matters, Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter

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Perceived Neighborhood Cohesion Buffers COVID-19 Impacts on Mental Health in a United States Sample, Jennifer W. Robinette, Georgiana Bostean, Laura M. Glynn, Jason A. Douglas, Brooke N. Jenkins, Tara L. Gruenewald, and David A. Frederick

Submissions from 2020

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Pandemics Prey on Fears, Both Legitimate and Illegitimate, Joseph O. Baker, Ann Gordon, Edward Day, and Christoper Bader

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The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality, Joseph O. Baker, Andrea Molle, and Christoper Bader

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Carty and Barraza: The Hidden Victims of Covid-19, Victoria Carty and Greg Barraza

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Timing of Departure From the Parental Home: Differences by Immigrant Generation and Parents’ Region of Origin, Brian Joseph Gillespie, Georgiana Bostean, and Stefan Malizia

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Decomposing Differences in Coronavirus disease 2019-related Case-Fatality Rates across Seventeen Nations, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Dinko Kranjac

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Mapping the Production and Mobilization Functions of Collective Action, Blaine G. Robbins, Ross L. Matsueda, and Steven Pfaff

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The Culture of Violent Talk: An Interpretive Approach, Peter Simi and Steven Windisch

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On the Permissibility of Homicidal Violence: Perspectives from Former U.S. White Supremacists, Steven Windisch, Peter Simi, Kathleen M. Blee, and Matthew DeMichele

Submissions from 2019

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Grime and Spirit: On a Hype!, Monique Charles

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Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Robert L. Wagmiller

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Anger from Within: The Role of Emotions in Disengagement from Violent Extremism, Peter Simi, Steven Windisch, Daniel Harris, and Gina Ligon

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Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal, Stephanie Takaragawa, Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Jenny Chio, Coleman Nye, and Shalini Shankar

Submissions from 2018

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Race, Xenophobia, and Punitiveness Among the American Public, Joseph O. Baker, David Cañarte, and L. Edward Day

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Grime Labour, Monique Charles

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How to Lead Your Team and Get Them on Your Side, Monique Charles

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MDA as a Research Method of Generic Musical Analysis for the Social Sciences: Sifting Through Grime (Music) as an SFT Case Study, Monique Charles

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Research Is More Than Just Google, Monique Charles

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Where are the Women in Grime?, Monique Charles

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Will The First Ladies Of Grime Please Stand Up?, Monique Charles

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Response: Labour and the Varieties of Feminism, Monique Charles and Natalie Thomlinson

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Mass Media and the Diffusion of Collective Action in Authoritarian Regimes: The June 1953 East German Uprising, Charles Crabtree, Holger L. Kern, and Steven Pfaff

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School‐Level Body Mass Index Shapes Children's Weight Trajectories, Ashley W. Kranjac

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Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context, Ashley W. Kranjac, Justin T. Denney, Rachel T. Kimbro, Brady S. Moffett, and Keila N. Lopez

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Neighborhood and Social Environmental Influences on Child Chronic Disease Prevalence, Ashley Wendell Kranjac, Justin T. Denney, Rachel T. Kimbro, Brady S. Moffett, and Keila N. Lopez

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Why Radicalization Fails: Barriers to Mass Casualty Terrorism, Peter Simi and Steven Windisch

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Understanding the Micro-Situational Dynamics of White Supremacist Violence in the United States, Steven Windisch, Peter Simi, Kathleen Blee, and Matthew DeMichele

Submissions from 2017

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How Racial Violence Is Provoked and Channeled, Kathleen M. Blee, Matthew DeMichele, Peter Simi, and Mehr Latif

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E-cigarette Specialty Retailers: Data to Assess the Association Between Retail Environment and Student E-cigarette Use, Georgiana Bostean, Catherine M. Crespi, Patsornkarn Vorapharuek, and William J. McCarthy

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Smoking Trends among U.S. Latinos, 1998–2013: The Impact of Immigrant Arrival Cohort, Georgiana Bostean, Annie Ro, and Nancy L. Fleischer

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Grime Launches a Revolution in Youth Politics, Monique Charles

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Smoking Among Hispanic/Latino Nationality Groups and Whites, Comparisons Between California and the United States, Jamie Q. Felicitas-Perkins, Kari-Lyn K. Sakuma, Lyzette Blanco, Pebbles Fagan, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Georgiana Bostean, Bin Xie, and Dennis R. Trinidad

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Smoking Selectivity Among Mexican Immigrants to the United States Using Binational Data, 1999–2012, Nancy L. Fleischer, Annie Ro, and Georgiana Bostean

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Martin Luther’s Spiritual Practice Was Key to the Success of the Reformation, Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff

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Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities Introduction, Ashley W. Kranjac, Rachel T. Kimbro, Justin T. Denney, Kristin M. Osiecki, Brady S. Moffett, and Keila N. Lopez

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Conference Conversations: Monique Charles on Corbyn and Grime, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Monique Charles

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Grad Students Can Change the World, but Not if GOP Has Its Way, Nathalie Williams and Steven Pfaff

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Organizational [Dis]trust: Comparing Disengagement Among Former Left-Wing and Right-Wing Violent Extremists, Steven Windisch, Gina Scott Ligon, and Peter Simi

Submissions from 2016

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A Bounded Affinity Theory of Religion and the Paranormal, Joseph O. Baker, Christoper Bader, and F. Carson Mencken

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E-Cigarette Use Among Students and E-Cigarette Specialty Retailer Presence Near Schools, Georgiana Bostean, Catherine M. Crespi, Patsornkarn Vorapharuek, and William J. McCarthy

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Bostean et al. Respond, Georgiana Bostean, Dennis R. Trinidad, and William J. McCarthy

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Young Thug: Devil in a Blue Dress?, Monique Charles

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Depression and Body Mass Index, Differences by Education: Evidence from a Population-based Study of Adult Women in the U.S. Buffalo-Niagara Region, Ashley Wendell Kranjac, Jing Nie, Maurizio Trevisan, and Jo L. Freudenheim

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Association Between Age and Obesity Over Time, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Robert L. Wagmiller

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Decomposing Trends in Adult Body Mass Index, Obesity, and Morbid Obesity, 1971-2012, Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Robert L. Wagmiller

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Recruitment and Radicalization among U.S. Far-Right Terrorists Recruitment and Radicalization among U.S. Far-Right Terrorists, Peter Simi, Steven Windisch, and Karyn Sporer

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Disengagement from Ideologically-Based and Violent Organizations: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Steven Windisch, Peter Simi, Gina Sott Ligon, and Hillary McNeel

Submissions from 2015

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E-Cigarette Use Among Never-Smoking California Students, Georgiana Bostean, Dennis R. Trinidad, and William J. McCarthy

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First Report of the National Evaluation of RSVP Volunteers, Annie Georges, Susan Gabbard, and Ashley Wendell Kranjac

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Review of Global Activism in Food Politics: Powershift, Ashley Wendell Kranjac

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The Moderating Effect of Self-Efficacy on Normal-Weight, Overweight, and Obese Children's Math Achievement: A longitudinal Analysis, Ashley Wendell Kranjac

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Duration of U.S. Stay and Body Mass Index among Latino and Asian Immigrants: A Test of Theoretical Pathways, Annie Ro and Georgiana Bostean

Submissions from 2014

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The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, Christoper Bader

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Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt: The Impact of New Media on Contemporary Social Movements and Challenges for Social Movement Theory, Victoria Carty

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McDonaldizing Croatia, Ashley Wendell Kranjac

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ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction, Gina S. Ligon, Mackenzie Harms, John Crowe, Leif Lundmark, and Peter Simi

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Multi-­‐Method Assessment of ISIL, Michael Nagata, Ali Abbas, Scott Atran, Bill Braniff, Andrew Bringuel, Muayyad al-Chalabi, Sarah Canna, Jocelyne Cesari, Jacquelynn Chinn, Jon Cole, Steven Corman, Jonathon Cosgrove, Allison Astorino-Courtois, John Crowe, Richard Davis, Natalie Flora, James Giordano, Craig Giorgis, Mackenzie Harms, Benjamin Jensen, Richard John, Randy Kluver, Larry Kuznar, Gina Ligon, Leif Lundmark, Clark McCauley, William H. Moon, Sophia Moskalenko, Dan Myers, Ryan Pereira, Stacy Pollard, Philip Potter, Hammad Sheikh, Johannes Siebert, Peter Simi, Lee Slusher, Anne Speckhard, Jason Spitaletta, Laura Steckman, Shalini Venturelli, Jeff Weyers, Lydia Wilson, and Detlof von Winterfeldt

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Who Cares? Caregiver Well-being in Europe, Leah Ruppanner and Georgiana Bostean

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Review of Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan, Peter Simi

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Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950, Stephanie Takaragawa

Submissions from 2013

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Does Selective Migration Explain the Hispanic Paradox?: A Comparative Analysis of Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico, Georgiana Bostean

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Associations Among Family History of Cancer, Cancer Screening and Lifestyle Behaviors: A Population-based Study, Georgiana Bostean, Catherine M. Crespi, and William J. McCarthy

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Cardiovascular Health: Associations with Race-ethnicity, Nativity, and Education in a Diverse, Population-based Sample of Californians, Georgiana Bostean, Christian K. Roberts, Catherine M. Crespi, Michael Prelip, Anne Peters, Thomas R. Belin, and William J. McCarthy

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Leveraging Family Values to Decrease Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Aging Latino Day Laborers, Homero E. del Pino, Carolyn Méndez-Luck, Georgiana Bostean, Karina Ramírez, Marlom Portillo, and Alison A. Moore

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The True Citizens of the City of God: The Cult of Saints, the Catholic Social Order, and the Urban Reformation in Germany, Steven Pfaff

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Framing Invisibility: Why We Continue to Ignore the White Supremacist Movement, Peter Simi