Beauty Pageants

One Click Podcast: The Girl in the Photo. July 15, 2021. C13 Originals.

“Girls and beauty (pageant) culture.” Pages 349-356 in The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics edited by Maxine Leeds Craig. 2021: Routledge Press.

“The Miss America Daughters Club.” May 7, 2021. Glamour.

“What It’s Really Like to Run for Miss USA During a Pandemic.” November 9, 2020. Glamour.

“There’s No Miss America Pageant This Year. The Contest’s History Suggests It Could Return Stronger Than Ever— Or Not.” September 3, 2020. Time.

“The Page 99 Test: Hilary Levey Friedman’s Here She Is.” August 31, 2020.

“On Writing HERE SHE IS.” August 25, 2020. Women Writers, Women’s Books.

“The Improbable Journey of the Suffragist Sash.” August 15, 2020. The New York Times.

“The Unlikely Feminist Journey of Miss America 1971.” July 16, 2020. Jezebel.

“Power Struggle in Beauty Pageants: On ‘Mrs. America’ and ‘Miss Americana.’” May 22, 2020. Pop Matters.

“Is This Year Miss America’s Final Bow?” December 6, 2019. Hour Detroit.

“From Bras to Bathing Suits.” September 9, 2018. Public Seminar.

“Good riddance to the Miss America swimsuit contest, but did we have to lose fitness, too?” June 6, 2018. USA Today.

“No swimsuits? Even more reason to take kids to pageants.” June 6, 2018. The Washington Post (On Parenting).

“Why Banning Swimsuits Won’t Fix Miss America.” June 6, 2018. Fortune.com.

“Running for Miss America now looks a lot like running for office.” September 18, 2017. The Washington Post.

“Lives: Cara McCollum ’15: With smarts and beauty, she wanted to be relevant.” February 8, 2017. PAW (Princeton Alumni Weekly).

“No More Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikinis: Why dropping swimsuit at Miss Teen USA matters, and why it doesn’t.” June 29, 2016. Psychology Today.

“And the Winner Is… Miss Universe 2016: Dream Fulfillment and Social Roles.” December 21, 2015. Psychology Today.

“Will the Obama Girls Stay Up Late for Miss America 2016?” September 10, 2015. Psychology Today.

“Encourage girls to be whoever they want, even if it’s Miss America.” September 25, 2013. MSNBC.com.

“Is Miss America for for Nice Jewish Girls?” September 22, 2013. The Jewish Daily Forward’s Sisterhood Blog.

“There She Is, Miss America: Big Money to Be Made.” September 12, 2013. The New York Times.  Page 8 of Sunday Review on September 15, 2013. 

“Measuring Ambition in Today’s Youth.” July 3, 2013. PsychologyToday.com.

“McCollum ’14 wins Miss New Jersey crown.” June 20, 2013. PAW: The Weekly Blog.

“Unleashing Momsters: It’s a Small World of Pageant Reality.” May 20, 2013. The Huffington Post.

“Child Beauty Pageants.” April 22, 2013. Oxford Bibliographies, Childhood Studies.

“Rep.-elect Lauren Cheape’s path to victory.” November 14, 2012. The Hill.

“The Similarities Between Honey Boo Boo and Malala Yousafzai.” October 30, 2012. The Huffington Post.

“From reigning to campaigning: Beauty Queen political candidates.” October 3, 2012. The Hill.

“Toddlers & Tiaras Justice.” August 31, 2012. Slate (Double X).

“Here She Comes, Miss (Elected) America.” June 26, 2012. Slate (Double X).

“Kelsey Beck: An Ivy League Beauty with Pageant Roots.” March 7, 2012. The Huffington Post/Stylelist.

“Youth pageants thrive, 15 years after JonBenét Ramsey’s death.” December 26, 2011. The Denver Post.

“Whitey Bulger’s Beauty Pageant Connection.” October 9, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“The ‘Grand’ Finale: Ending Season 4 of Toddlers & Tiaras.” September 25, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“Glitz and Drama Down Under.” August 3, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“The Odds Look Gorgeous: A Quantitative Analysis of the Miss Massachusetts Contest.” June 19, 2011. The Boston Globe Magazine. (Click HERE for an online slideshow version of the article; click HERE to see the cover headline and article description)

“The Evolution of American-Style Child Beauty Pageants.” May 10, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“Cinderella Ate My Man-Eating Tiger Daughter.” April 1, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“There She Goes… A Feminist, Trailblazing Beauty Queen.” March 15, 2011. The Huffington Post.

“American ‘Tiger Moms’ obsess in their own ways.” January 21, 2011. Opinion Column in USA Today.

“Pageant Princesses and Math Whizzes: Understanding Children’s Activities as a Form of Children’s Work.” 2009. Childhood. 16(2): 195-212.

“Sociology and Tiaras.” November 6, 2009. Everyday Sociology.

“Here She Is… And There She Goes?.” Summer 2007. Contexts.