The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is proud to celebrate its faculty’s publications, presentations, and other creative works from 2024-2025.
Authored books and translations
Burr, T. C. (2025). Societies Past and Present: A Social Science World History. Cham: Springer.
Textbooks
Stanlaw, J., & Adachi, N. (2025). Language, Culture, and Society, 8th ed. New York: Routledge.
Journal articles
Avogo, W. (2025). Individual and Community Effects on Adolescent Reproductive Health Transitions in West Africa. Discover Public Health, 22(1), 500.
Kumar, U., & Dougherty, M. L. (2025). Building Post-Fordism from the Shopfloor Up: Labor’s Constrained Agency and Caterpillar’s Employee Satisfaction Process. Journal of Labor and Society, 28(2), 230-253.
Dougherty, M. L. (2024). Syllabus as Argument in an Era of Politicized Pedagogy. Sociological Forum, 39(3), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13008
Miller, L. (2025). Clovis Use-Wear Analysis: A Review. Northeast Anthropology, 95-96, 10-32.
Scialo, S., Atkinson, C., Miller, L., Leslie, D. (2025). RENEWED INVESTIGATIONS OF THE WHIPPLE SITE: EVIDENCE FOR A FOURTH LOCUS OF ACTIVITY ALONG THE ASHUELOT RIVER IN SWANZEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53, 87-113.
Eren, M., Bebber, M., Redmond, B., Kasten, P., Miller, L., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M. (2025). Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA. Lithic Technology, 50, 67-81.
Miller, L. (2024). Settling Down with Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines in Eastern North America. Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Institutions and Collective Action, 6.
Mukusha, L., Miller, L., Smith, A., Bebber, M., Spurlock, L., Garrath, J., Ortiz, J., Wilson, M., Buchanan, B., Boulanger, M., Eren, M. (2024). Hit or Miss: Do Microscopic Linear Impact Traces (MLITs) Form on Clovis Stone Tips Launched Via Atlatl into Foliage and Sediment? Journal Of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55.
Eren, M., Miller, L., Story, B., Wilson, M., Bebber, M., Buchanan, B. (2024). North American Clovis Point Form and Performance IV: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Edge Effectiveness and Wear. Lithic Technology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01977261.2022.2162234
Eren, M., Bebber, M., Mukusha, L., Wilson, M., Boehm, A., Buchanan, B., Miller, L., Skoglund, M., Skoglund, M., Hayes, J., Barta, M., Bates, S., Callaghan, R., Floyd, C., Morris, S., Neuharth, S., Newcomb, C., Rinella, S., Schneider, C., Smith, M. M., Parfitt, A., Meltzer, D. (2024). Experimental Bison Butchery Using Replica Hafted Clovis Fluted Points and Large Handheld Flakes. JAS: Reports.
Pitluck, A. Z. (2025). “Why Broker Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology,” Current Sociology 73(2): 141-169. Open Access.
Pitluck, A. Z. (Editor). (2025). Brokering Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology. Current Sociology73(2) Monograph.
Putt, S. (2025). A CURE for teaching experimental archaeology. EXARC, 2025(3). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10798
Putt, S., Holden, C. (2025). Rethinking early hominin toolmaking through comparative primate models. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180(106306).
Sprecher, S. (2025). Barriers to interaction with new weak ties: Are self-presentation concerns and forecasts of benefits miscalibrated? Personal Relationships, 32(1), e12589.v
Sprecher, S., Verette-Lindenbaum, J., Felmlee, D., Fleming, F., Odeh, Y. (2025). Is there a sexual stereotype linking casual sex with low self-esteem? Sexuality & Culture, 29, 1713-1732.
Fingerman, K. L., Birditt, K. S., Fiori, K., Hall, J., Huxhold, O., Rauer, A., Sandstrom, G., & Sprecher, S. (2025). More than an acquaintance less than a friend: Fringeships in everyday life. Review of General Psychology, 29(3), 356-372.
Sprecher, S., Verette-Lindenbaum, J. (2024). Is there a kernel of truth to the stereotype that women who engage in casual sex have lower self-esteem? Personality and Individual Differences. 12604.
Kanter, J., Lannin, D., Ratliff, H. C., Rauer, A., Sprecher, S., Ogolsky, B., Yazedjian, A. (2025). The efficacy of relationship education for improving children’s outcomes: A multi-informant, multi-method study. Family Process, 64(1), e70001.
Kanter, J., Lannin, D. G., Rauer, A., Sprecher, S., Yazedjian, A., McCraig, J. (2024). The impacts of specific program components on romantic relationship satisfaction. Family Relations, 73, 1267-1277.
Jasper, K., Cline, L. K., Rask, K., Stone, A. C. (2025). Interim Report on the Valle Gianni Excavation, the Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project (NBAP), 2021-2024. FOLD&R. Fasti Online Documents & Research, Italy, 606, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16616665
Stone, L. (2025). Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70010
Stone, L. (2024). Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management. Left History, 26(2), 51-76. https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/view/39682
McIntosh, S. K., Cain, C., Cisse, M., Murray, S., Stoker, K., Stone, A. C., McIntosh, R. J. (2025). “‘This Blessed City’: Excavations at the Second-Millennium AD Trade Town of Jenné (Inland Niger Delta, Mali). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2025.2479376
Suwandi, I. (2025). “Fighting Back and Building Strength: Reflecting on Indonesia’s Labor Movement.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 41 (September).
Stanlaw, J. (2025). “Edward Sapir.” Linguistics – Oxford Bibliographies, edited by Mark Aronoff, Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies Online. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stanlaw, J. (2025). “Seeing Culture, Aging and Maturity Through the Lens of The Wizard of Oz and The Makioka Sisters in Class, Fiction, and Film.” Studies on Asia Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2025). Pp. 114-134.
Stanlaw, J. (2025). “Edward Sapir.” Linguistics – Oxford Bibliographies, edited by Mark Aronoff, Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies Online. New York: Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780199772810
Torrealba, G. (2025). “Enactive Narrativities: Rubber-Times Historicity and Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia”, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 21: Iss. 1.
Book chapters
Navas Mendez, A. M., Scaramelli, F., Di Prinzio, A., Scaramelli, K. (2024). Metalurgia y colonización en las misiones jesuitas de la cuenca del Orinoco Medio durante el siglo XVIII. In Konrad A. Antczak (Ed.), Arqueología histórica venezolana: Perspectivas actuales sobre el contacto, el colonialismo y la independencia (pp. 269-291). Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Sprecher, S., & Fehr, B. (2025). Compassionate Love Scale. In O. N. Medvedev et al. (Eds.) Handbook of assessment in mindfulness research (pp. 869-886). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Kanter, J., Sprecher, S., Orbuch, T. (2025). Relationship quality: Predictors, correlates, and consequences. Research Handbook of Partnering Across the Life Course.
Toro-Morn, M. I. (2025). “Daughter of Operation Bootstrap: Feminist Awakenings, Commitments, and Tensions. In Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón (editor). Porque Estamos Aqui: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire. Feminist Press.
Whitesel, J. (2025). “Storying and Restorying the Fat Body: Disrupting the Medicalized Master Narrative with Fat-Activist Counternarratives” [Pub. Date: 2026]. In Ann Ferrell and Martha Sims (Ed.), Narrative Knows No Boundaries. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
Whitesel, J. (2025). “A History of Fat: Discursive Constraint, Narrative Resistance”. In Ann Ferrell and Martha Sims (Ed.), Narrative Knows No Boundaries. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
Academic Conference Papers Presented in the U.S.
Avogo, W. (2025). (Discussant) in the session “Youth Bulge and Demographic Dividend”, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, April 10 – 13 in Washington, DC.
Miller, L., Society for American Archaeology, “Middle Woodland Bifaces with Glossy Polish: Adzes, Hoes, or Other?,” Denver Colorado. (April 2025).
Akina, K., Hall, J., Malouchos, E., Skousen, J., Miller, L., Midwest Archaeological Conference, “Integrating Tribal Consultation and K9 Archaeological Human Remains Detection (K9 arcHRD) Surveys to Protect Ancestors During Archaeological Field Schools,” Milwaukee, WI. (October 2024).
Pitluck, A. Z. “What constitutes economic sociology? A revisionist history, and two paths forward.” Wisconsin School of Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (April 18, 2025).
Pitluck, A. Z. “Meaning-making and Control in Islamic Investment Banks,” Speaker Series, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL. (February 5, 2025).
Putt, S. (Author & Presenter), Holden, C. (Author), American Association of Biological Anthropologists, “Differences in stone toolmaking actions between humans and bonobos (Pan paniscus),” Baltimore, MD. (March 14, 2025).
Salmons, H. (Author & Presenter), Putt, S. (Author), American Association of Biological Anthropologists, “The development and transmission of nut-cracking and stone-knapping skills in young children,” Baltimore, MD. (March 12, 2025).
Putt, S. (Author & Presenter), Teaching and Learning Symposium, “A CURE for experimental archaeology,” Illinois State University, Normal, IL. (January 8, 2025).
Sprecher, S. (August, 2025). Positive mood and feeling of being social connected after a getting-acquainted interaction. American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.
Sprecher, S., Midwest Psychological Association, “Symposium on Social and Intimate Connections,” Chicago, IL. (April 2025).
Sprecher, S., Fehr, B., Kanter, J., Midwest Psychological Association, “Who is judged to be compassionate and responsive in first interactions?,” Chicago, IL. (April 2025).
Sprecher, S., Verette-Lindenbaum, J., Kuhn, R., Laux, S., Spranger, K., Woodruff, E., Youngman, D., Midwest Psychological Association, “Friendship acceptance (and rejection) across political divides,” Chicago, IL. (April 2025).
Stanlaw, J. Discussion presented at the panel “Diasporas and Displacement: Ghosts in the Musical Machine” at the American Anthropological Association 2025 Meeting, New Orleans.
Stanlaw, J. (2024). “Dark Winds and Transformations in the American Southwest in the Diné ‘Land of Enchantment?’: Some Anthropological Perspectives.” Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Stanlaw, J. (2024). “Learning from Shōgun Today: Japanese History and Western Fantasy Redux … And Reduxed Again.” 73rd Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. University of Notre Dame.
Torrealba, G. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, “Ex-Invisible: The Mediatization of Indigeneity in Peruvian Amazonia,” American Anthropological Association, Online. (November 2025).
Torrealba, G. (Author & Presenter), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, “MAISANGARA NO MORE”: THE (COSMO) POLITICS OF INDIGENOUS MUSIC VIDEOS INPERUVIAN AMAZONIA,” American Anthropological Association, Tampa, Florida. (November 20, 2024).
Turner, J., American Society of Criminology, “Author Meets Critics: Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic,” San Francisco. (November 17, 2024).
Academic Conference Posters Presented in the U.S.
Driscoll, KRD., 94rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA), “Learning from casts? A Reassessment of Sex,” Baltimore, MD. (March 15, 2025).
Academic Conference Papers Presented outside the U.S.
Avogo, W. (Presenter). (2025). “Relative Resources and Community Norms: Contextualizing Intimate Partner Violence in West Africa” Oral session “202 The Interplay between Individual and Contextual Influences on Reproduction” at the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025, Brisbane, Australia, 13-18 July 2025.
Avogo, W. (Presenter). (2024). “Individual and Community Effects and Adolescent Reproductive Health Transitions in West Africa” 9th African Population Conference, Lilongwe, Malawi 20-24.
Pitluck, A. Z. “What is social innovation? A Case Study in an Islamic Bank,” at the 5th International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, July 9, 2025.
Pitluck, A. Z. Discussant, Special Panel for Early Career Researchers, at the 5th International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, July 7, 2025.
Torrealba, G. (Author & Presenter), XIV biennial conference of the Society of the Anthropology of Lowland South America, “MAISANGARA NO MORE: THE COSMOPOLITICS OF KUKAMA MUSIC VIDEOS IN PERUVIAN AMAZONIA,” Society of the Anthropology of Lowland South America, Helsinki, Finland. (August 2025).
Other Published/Creative Works
Adachi, N. (2025). Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020. British Columbia: Asian American History and Culture.
Dougherty, M. L. (2024). Rose J. Spalding, Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 308 (2nd ed., vol. 56, pp. 365-368). Journal of Latin American Studies.
Miller, L., Skousen, J. (2025). The Noble-Wieting Cultural Site. Archaeology of Illinois: The Deep History of the Prairie State (pp. 240-241).
Miller, L. (2024). The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage. M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy R. W. Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels. American Antiquity.
Wang, Z., Pitluck, A. (2024). On Islamic finance and contemporary capitalism: An interview with Aaron Pitluck (Fall ed., pp. 6-8). Accounts.
