Publications

Journal Articles

• Steele, Liza G., Lamis Abdelaaty, and Nga Than. 2023. “Attitudes about Refugees and Immigrants Arriving in the United States: A Conjoint Experiment” Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2159475.* Published article | PDF | Supplemental Appendix |  Data for replication

• Steele, Liza G., Amie Bostic, Scott M. Lynch, and Lamis Abdelaaty. 2022. “Measuring Ethnic Diversity.” Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 48. Review in Advance | Preprint PDF | Supplemental Appendix 

• Steele, Liza G., Joseph N. Cohen, and Joseph Reynolds van der Naald. 2022. "Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 Countries." Social Science Research. Published article | Preprint and data at SocArXiv

• Than, Nga, Friederieke Windel, and Liza G. Steele. 2022. “#Lorrydeaths: Structural Topic Modeling of Twitter Users’ Attitudes about the Deaths of 39 Vietnamese Migrants to the United Kingdom.” Frontiers in Sociology. Vol. 7. Published article (open access)

• Abdelaaty, Lamis, and Liza G. Steele. 2022. “Explaining Attitudes towards Refugees and Immigrants in Europe.” Political Studies. Published article | PDF | Online Supplement | Data for replication

• Steele, Liza G. 2021. “Wealth and Preferences for Redistribution: The effects of financial assets and home equity in 31 countries.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. DOI: 10.1177/0020715220988088. Published article | PDF | Online Supplement

• Steele, Liza G. and Lamis Abdelaaty. 2019. “Ethnic Diversity and Attitudes towards Refugees in Europe.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45(11): 1833-1856. Published article | PDF | Online Supplement | Abdelaaty, Lamis, and Liza G. Steele. 2022. “Explaining Attitudes towards Refugees and Immigrants in Europe.” Political Studies. Published article | PDF | Online Supplement | Data for replication

• Steele, Liza G. and Krystal M. Perkins. 2019. “The Effects of Perceived Neighborhood Immigrant Population Size on Preferences for Redistribution in New York City: A Pilot Study.” Frontiers in Sociology (Special issue edited by Moshe Semyonov and Guillermina Jasso on Immigration in the Global Era: Migrants and the People and Laws at Origin and Destination). Published article (open access) | PDF

• Steele, Liza G. and Krystal M. Perkins. 2018. “The Effects of Perceived Neighborhood Diversity on Preferences for Redistribution: A Pilot Study.” Societies. 8(3):82. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8030082. Published article (open access) | PDF

• Steele, Liza G. 2016a. “Ethnic Diversity and Support for Redistributive Social Policies.” Social Forces. 94(4):1439-1481. DOI: 10.1093/sf/sow021. Published article | PDF | Online supplement | Data for replication

• Steele, Liza G. 2016b. “Multi-Religiosity: Expanding research on ties to multiple faiths in the 21st century.” New Diversities. 18(1):37-52. (Invited Special Issue: Religion and Super-Diversity). Published article | PDF

• Steele, Liza G. 2015. “Income Inequality, Equal Opportunity, and Attitudes About Redistribution.” Social Science Quarterly. 96(2):444-464. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12145. Published article | PDF | Data for replication

• Steele, Liza G. and Scott M. Lynch. 2013. “The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being during China’s Economic and Social Transformation.” Social Indicators Research. 114(2):441-451. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0154-1. Published article | PDF

• Telles, Edward and Liza G. Steele. 2012. “Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color?” AmericasBarometer Insights. 73:1-8. Published article [In Spanish as “Pigmentocracia en las Américas: ¿cómo se relaciona el logro educativo con el color de piel?” Perspectivas desde el Barómetro de las Américas. PDF (open access - Español)]

• Steele, Liza G. 2011. “‘A Gift from God’: Adolescent Motherhood and Religion in Brazilian Favelas.” Sociology of Religion. 72(1): 4-27. (Lead article) Published article | PDF | Online supplement

  • Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Children and Youth Section, 2011

  • Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2011

• Steele, Liza and Raymond C. Kuo. 2007. “Terrorism in Xinjiang?” Ethnopolitics. 6(1): 1-19. (Lead article) Published article | PDF

Edited Volumes

• Steele, Liza G., Nate Breznau, and Juan Carlos Castillo, editors. 2023. "Group Dynamics and Redistributive Policy Preferences in the Global South." Special issue of Frontiers in Sociology. Link (open access)

• Steele, Liza G. and Nate Breznau, editors. 2019. “Attitudes about Inequalities.” Special issue of Societies. 8(3-4). ISSN 2075-4698. Link (open access)

Other Publications

• Steele, Liza G. 2023. “Review of ‘The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach.’” Social Forces. 10.1093/sf/soad139. 

• Steele, Liza G. and Nate Breznau. 2023. “Editorial: Preferences for Redistribution in the Global South.” Frontiers in Sociology. 8: 1–3. Link (open access)

• Steele, Liza G. and Nate Breznau. 2019. “Attitudes toward Redistributive Policy: An Introduction.” Societies. 9(3):50. Link (open access)

• Steele, Liza G. 2018. "Ask the Experts" interview for "2018's Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities in the U.S." by Richie Bernardo. WalletHub, February 13th. Article

• Telles, Edward and Liza G. Steele. 2012. “The Effects of Skin Color in the Americas.” Americas Quarterly. Published article

• Steele, Liza G. 2011. "Multiple Faiths." in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Wade Clark Roof and Mark Juergensmeyer. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Encyclopedia entry

• Steele, Liza G. 2011. "Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997)." in Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Wade Clark Roof and Mark Juergensmeyer. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Encyclopedia entry