Recent Public Interest Publications

Getting ‘Tough’ on Protests in Counterproductive, The Atlantic.

How effective are protests and riots for changing America? The Hill.

Key Academic Publications: Protest and Violence

The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks, American Journal of Sociology.

All the Rioting That's Fit to Print: Selection Effects in National Newspaper Coverage of Civil Disorders, 1968-1969, American Sociological Review.

Racial Rioting in the 1960S: An Event History Analysis of Local Conditions, American Sociological Review.

Violent Protest and Heterogeneous Diffusion Processes: The Spread of U.S. Racial Rioting From 1964 to 1971. Mobilization.

Other Selected Academic Publications

Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality: Opinion Change in Women and Men, 1974–1998, Social Forces.

The Opposing Forces Diffusion Model: The Initiation and Repression of Collective Violence, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.

Books and Edited Volumes

Identity Work in Social Movements. University of Minnesota Press.

Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America, Chandler & Sharp.

Authority in Contention. JAI/Elsevier.

Social Psychology, 8th edition. Westview Press.