Journal articles, book chapters, and works in progress. * = (under)graduate student co-author
This book examines how U.S.-based civil society organizations have mobilized to undermine LGBTQ+ rights globally, revealing the interconnections between anti-queer advocacy and democratic erosion worldwide.
Public Opinion Quarterly (89)4: 1138–1153
Using a conjoint survey experiment, this study investigates how sexuality and perceived cultural similarity shape public attitudes toward immigrant deservingness in the United States.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
This study explores how nonprofits strategically deploy emotional versus cognitive appeals in communications, and how these different approaches influence donor giving and volunteer recruitment.
American Sociological Review 90(6): 1092–1122
This article examines how political generational conflicts within social movement organizations create internal tensions and shape organizational strategies for navigating disagreements between older and younger cohorts.
International Migration Review 59(3): 1500–1529
This study provides a demographic portrait of immigrants in same-sex couples in the United States, examining how LGB-related policies in origin and destination countries shape migration patterns.
Sex and Sexualities 1(1)
This article introduces measurement approaches for sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) data, addressing methodological challenges during a period of political suppression of queer data collection.
Mobilization: An International Quarterly 29(4): 441–468
This study traces the expanding global reach of the World Congress of Families, analyzing how this conservative transnational network has grown its influence across countries and regions over time.
Journal of Democracy 35(3): 131–148
This article interrogates the assumed positive relationship between democracy and LGBT+ rights, examining conditions under which democratic processes may actually hinder progress on sexual and gender minority protections.
Social Forces 102(3): 1134–1156
Using a difference-in-differences-in-differences design, this article examines how political and legal changes around same-sex marriage have influenced the rise of mixed-citizenship same-sex couples in the United States.
American Journal of Sociology 128(5): 1381–1429
This article theorizes and empirically demonstrates how transnational backlash networks have contributed to the deinstitutionalization of liberal norms around LGBT+ rights, reshaping the global normative landscape.
American Sociological Review 88(3): 379–417
This study examines how individual empowerment and institutional confidence jointly shape vaccination rates across countries, revealing tensions between personal autonomy and public health compliance from 1995 to 2018.
Social Forces 101(4): 2087–2116
This article investigates whether opposing transnational advocacy networks in the LGBT+ space avoid each other or strategically co-locate, analyzing the spatial interdependence of pro- and anti-LGBT+ organizations.
International Sociology 37(3): 305–329
This article provides a global perspective on trends in women's participation across political, economic, and social domains in the post-liberal era, assessing whether earlier gains have stalled or reversed.
Mobilization: An International Quarterly 27(1): 91–114
This study maps the structure and dynamics of transnational LGBT advocacy networks across Europe, analyzing how organizations form ties and seek allies during periods of political turbulence.
American Journal of Sociology 127(4): 1267–1310
This article traces how queer nonprofits adopted increasingly inclusive language between 1998 and 2016, identifying deconstructed and constructive institutional logics that drove organizational naming and framing changes.
Administration & Society 53(10): 1547–1579
Using a matched design, this study evaluates whether government intervention through the VISTA national service program increases volunteering and charitable donations in communities where members are placed.
Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory 31(4): 822–838
This article investigates whether nonprofits serve as effective public policy tools for promoting community-level subjective well-being, analyzing the relationship between nonprofit density and community happiness.
Nonprofit Management & Leadership 31(4): 693–715
This study examines how social context shapes charitable giving, analyzing the community-level factors that encourage or discourage individual donations to nonprofit organizations.
American Sociological Review 85(6): 1051–1083
This article tests whether nonprofit organizations that use emotional appeals in their communications are more successful at attracting donations and volunteers compared to those using more rational approaches.
International Studies Quarterly 64(1): 120–132
This article documents a growing divergence between transnational advocacy networks and foreign aid as mechanisms for diffusing LGBT policies across countries, revealing how these two forces increasingly operate at cross-purposes.
American Review of Public Administration 49(3): 275–291
This study evaluates whether national service programs like AmeriCorps improve subjective well-being at the community level, using longitudinal data to assess the impact of service member placements.
Social Indicators Research 142(3): 1015–1029
This article introduces a new measure of social capital and uses it to reassess claims about declining social capital in U.S. communities, offering a more nuanced picture of civic engagement trends.
Social Forces 97(1): 377–404
This article examines how the presence and activities of human rights INGOs and LGBT-specific INGOs drive the cross-national diffusion of LGBT-protective policies from 1991 to 2015.
In Democratization (2nd Edition), edited by Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald F. Inglehart, and Christian Welzel. Oxford University Press.
This chapter reviews the relationship between gender equality and democratization, examining how women's political participation shapes and is shaped by democratic transitions and consolidation.
Final Report. Corporation for National and Community Service, Office of Research and Evaluation. Washington, D.C.
This report develops and validates a new county-level measure of social capital for the Corporation for National and Community Service, enabling more precise tracking of civic engagement across U.S. communities.
Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies