- “Which One is Yours?”: Children and Ethnography
- This paper received the 2008 Best Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Children and Youth
- This paper has been published in Qualitative Sociology
- Pageant Princesses and Math Whizzes: Understanding Children’s Activities as a Form of Children’s Work
- This paper has been published in Childhood
- Outside Class: A Historical Analysis of American Children’s Competitive Activities
- This paper appeared in Karen Sternheimer’s volume, Childhood in American Society and a version of it is also a dissertation chapter
- Trophies, Triumphs, and Tears: Children’s Experiences with Competitive Activities
- This paper appeared in Sociological Studies of Children and Youth and a version of it is also a dissertation chapter
- “Extramarital Sex.” and “Fathers’ Rights Movements.” 2008.
- These two entries appeared in the 2008 Encyclopedia of Social Problems
*Please note that articles under review or in progress are available by request.
Under Review
Under Review
- “Pediatric Sports Injuries Presented to Children’s Hospital Boston from 2000-2009.” (with Rebecca Casciano, Lyle J. Micheli, and Andrea Straccioloni) The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
- “’Throwing Like a Girl?’: Decomposing Sex Differences in Type and Location of Youth Sports Injuries.” (with Rebecca Casciano, Lyle J. Micheli, and Andrea Straccioloni) The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
- “Graceful Girls, Aggressive Girls, and Pink Girls: Classed Femininity and Children’s Afterschool Activities.” Revise and Resubmit at Gender & Society.
- “Racial Trends in University Commencement Speakers from 1946-2003: Heroes, Race, and Higher Education.” Revise and Resubmit at Poetics.
- “Raising American, Middle Class Children in a Competitive Culture.” Accepted for submission to Oxford University Press volume on Dilemmas of the Middle Class Around the World. (ed. Katherine S. Newman).
Papers and Projects in Progress
- Draft Book Manuscript
- Here She Is: Inside the World of Child Beauty Pageants.
- Research Projects
- The Relative-Age Effect and Youth Sports Injuries (with Rebecca Casciano).
