The Department of Sociology and Anthropology celebrates its faculty’s publications and presentations from 2022-23.

Authored books and translations

Suwandi, I. (2022). Rantai Nilai: Wajah Baru Imperialisme Ekonomi. Indonesian translation of my book Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2019). Yogyakarta: Penerbit Independen.

Journal articles

Leslie, D., Miller, L. (2023). Early Paleoindian Personal Adornment: An Example from the Brian D. Jones Site in Avon, Connecticut. PaleoAmerica, 9, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2022.2157930

Kanter, J., Lannin, D. G., Rauer, A., Sprecher, S., Yazedjian, A. (2023). The longitudinal influence of cumulative risk: Is relationship education a resource? DeGarmo 435 Campus Box 4620

Eren, M., Bebber, M., Wendel, M., Miller, L., Buchanan, B. (2023). Description, Morphometrics, and Microwear of Two Paleoindian Fluted Points from Nebraska and Illinois. Lithic Technology, 48, 318-326. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01977261.2022.2155373

Eren, M., Diaz-Martin, F., Tarrino, A., Smith, H., Buchanan, B., Miller, L., Boulanger, M., King, M., Slobodin, S. (2023). Toolstone characterization, description, morphometrics, and microwear of the lithic assemblage from Uptar, Magadan Oblast, Northeastern Siberia, Russia. Archaeological Research in Asia.

Riordan, R., Miller, L., Stone, A. (2023). Bladelets, Blood, and Bones: Integrating Protein Residue, Lithic Use-Wear, and Faunal Data from the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient. American Antiquity.

Mukusha, L., Miller, L., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M., Marvin, R., Fisher, S., Kunst, R., Bebber, M., Eren, M. (2023). Thinking about artifact description, collections, access, and replicability: Clovis and possible-Clovis artifacts from the Wyandot County and Portage County Historical Societies, Ohio. Northeast Anthropology, 90, 1-25.

Avogo, W. (2023). Community Characteristics and the Risk of Noncommunicable Diseases in Ghana. PLOS Global Public Health. https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000692

Goldstein, S., Hixon, S., Scott, E., Wolfhagen, J., Iminjili, V., Janzen, A., Chritz, K., Sawchuck, E., Ndiema, E., Sealy, J., Stone, A. C., Zoeller, G., Phelps, L., Fernandes, R. (2022). Presenting the AfriArch Isotopic Database. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 10, 6. http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.94

Leslie, D., Singer, Z., Miller, L., Reinhart, K., Jones, B. (2022). Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition Occupations at the Edgewood Apartments Site, Plainville Massachusetts. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 50, 1-29.

Pitluck, A. (2022). Beyond debt and equity: Dissecting the red herring and a path forward for normative critiques of finance. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 93(2022), 60-74. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2022/93/fcl930105.xml

Pitluck, A. (2023). The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: A resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance.” Journal of Cultural Economy. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ce7kf/

Sprecher, S. (2022). Acquaintanceships (Weak Ties): Their Role in People’s Web of Relationships. Personal Relationships, 29(3), 425-450.

Sprecher, S., Hatfield, E. (2022). Ratings of the Physical Attractiveness of an Interaction Partner After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction. Personal Relationships, 29(2), 366-385.

Sprecher, S., O’Sullivan, L., Drouin, M., Verette-Lindenbaum, J., Willetts, M. (2022). Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut. Journal of Sex Research, 59(1), 39-52.

Drouin, M., Sprecher, S. (2022). Is Chatting with a Sophisticated Chatbox as Good as Chatting Online or Face to Face with a Stranger? Computers in Human Behavior, 128.

Sprecher, S., O’Sullivan, L., Drouin, M., Verette-Lindenbaum, J., Willetts, M. (2022). Perhaps It Was Too Soon: College Students’ Reflections on the Timing of Their Sexual Debut. Journal of Sex Research, 59(1), 39-52.

Whitesel, J. (2022). On Becoming a Queer Scholar Doing Body-Image Research. Racial Democracy, Crime & Justice Network: Our Stories, 3(3), 26.

Sprecher, S., Miller, R., Fehr, B., Kanter, J., Perlman, D., Felmlee, D. (2022). Enhanced Mood after a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?

Willetts, M. C. (2022). Convictions and penalties among rescue and non-rescue non-human animal hoarders. Society & Animals. https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/aop/article-10.1163-15685306-bja10070/article-10.1163-15685306-bja10070.xml

Suwandi, I. (2022). COVID-19 and Imperial Value: Commodity Chains, Global Monopolies, and Catastrophe Capitalism. International Critical Thought.

Book chapters

Whitesel, J. (2023). “Big-Gay Men Entering the Twenty-First Century: Global Perspectives on Fat-Affirming Subcultures and Imagery”. In Amy Farrell (Ed.), The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies. New York, NY: Routledge.

Putt, S. (2023). The neuroarchaeology of language origins. In Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh Overmann, Frederick Coolidge (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology (pp. C21S1–C21F5). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pitluck, A. (2023). In Bueno, Arthur, Mariana Teixeira, and David Strecker (Ed.), Collaboration across ontological worlds: Reflections on intellectual brokerage from Islamic banking and finance (pp. 178-92). New York and London: Routledge.

Sprecher, S., Russell, L., Su-Russell, C., Schmeeckle, M. (2022). Social Networks and Extended Families. The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication (pp. 277-293). Routledge.

Sprecher, S., Fehr, B. (2022). The Compassionate Love Scale. In O. N. Medvedev  et al. (Ed.), Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness. Springer.

Camp, S. L., Carter, B. P., Painter, A., Rowe, S., Sampeck, K. E. (2022). Teaching Archaeological Mapping and Data Management with KoBoToolbox. In Ethan Wattrall and Lynne Goldstein (Ed.), Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice (pp. pp. 273-297). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/101535

Academic conference papers presented in the U.S.

Skousen, J., Miller, L., McCullough, R., Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Beyond the Natural Community: Village Structure, Architecture, Temporality, and Community at Noble-Wieting,” La Crosse Wisconsin. (October 2022).

Miller, L., Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Examining Lithics and Community at Noble-Wieting,” La Crosse Wisconsin. (October 2022).

Skousen, J., Miller, L., Pappenfort, L., Akina, K., Watts Malouchos, E., Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Introducing the Noble-Wieting Cultural Site,” La Crosse, Wisconsin. (October 2022).

Skousen, J., Miller, L., Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Recent Research at the Noble-Wieting Cultural Site,” La Crosse, Wisconsin. (October 2022).

Burnside, C., Farnsworth, K., Graves, C., Miller, L., Armitage, R. A., American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting, “Detection and Identification of Possible Tobacco Residues in Burnt Crusts of Hopewell Pottery from Lower Illinois River Valley,” Ypsilanti, MI. (June 2022).

Martin, S. (Author & Presenter), Putt, S. (Author), Southern Anthropological Society, “Is the temporal styloid process a unique structure in humans?,” Valdosta, Georgia. (March 11, 2023).

Stone, A. C. (Author & Presenter), Kennedy, K. (Author), Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Elk Hunting and Community Building at Noble-Wieting,” La Crosse, Wisconsin. (October 15, 2022).

Suwandi, I., American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, “COVID-19 and Imperial Value,” Los Angeles, CA. (August 2022).

Toro-Morn, M., Annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, “Latino Studies in the Age of Globalization,” Latin American Studies Associaton, U.S. (May 2022).

Whitesel, J. (Author & Presenter), Friedman Speaker Series, “Weight Bias and Fat Stigma,” Tufts University, Online. (March 15, 2023).

Academic conference papers presented outside the U.S.

Hunter, G., Food Law and the Right to Food Symposium, “The Anthropology of Food – Insects as Future Food? A Critical Anthropology Perspective”,” International Academy of Comparative Law, Pavia, Italy. (July 7, 2022).

Pitluck, A., Economic Sociology of Innovation International Workshop, “Problematizing Moral Views of Financial Innovation,” Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. (February 17, 2023).

Pitluck, A., NIAS Seminar, “A Resemblance of Risk,” Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (October 28, 2022).

Pitluck, A., Intersections of Finance and Society, “Relational Politics in Financial Innovation: A Case Study of an Islamic Bank,” Finance and Society Network, London, England. (September 15, 2022).

Pitluck, A., 34th Annual Meeting, “What drives financial innovation? A case study in an Islamic bank,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (July 11, 2022).

Pitluck, A., 34th Annual Meeting, “Beyond debt and equity: Dissecting the red herring and a path forward for normative critiques of finance,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (July 10, 2022).

Pitluck, A., 38th Colloquium, “What drives financial innovation? A case study in an Islamic Bank,” European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Vienna, Austria. (July 7, 2022).

Stone, L., Seminario Epistemologías, Estéticas y Poéticas del Cine, “Atenco Vive!: Una mirada antropológica de la producción y circulación de los documentales de Atenco,” Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México / Illinois State University, online (November 30, 2022).

Suwandi, I., Lecture on Samir Amin, “Samir Amin: The Dialectics of Class Relations and Uneven Development,” Labor Geography Network, Online (Hamburg, Germany). (June 21, 2022).

Other published/creative works

Dougherty, M. (2022). What’s at the root of mining criticism in Guatemala?. Latin American Advisor/Inter-American Dialogue. https://www.thedialogue.org/latin-america-advisor/