Journal Articles

Below is a select list of journal articles by faculty, doctoral students and department affiliates in the Department of Sociology published in the last three years. For a complete list of articles by faculty, see their individual pages and CVs

Linda Zhao. 2025. “Uneven Mixing, Network Segregation, and Immigrant Integration.” American Sociological Review. 90(2)

 Melissa J. Wilde, Tessa D. Huttenlocher, and Elena G. van Stee. 2025. "Religious Inequality in America: The View from 1916." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 

Yujin Potter, Shiyang Lai, Junsol Kim, James Evans, Dawn Song. 2024. “Hidden Persuaders: How LLM Political Bias Could Sway Our Elections”. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Xie Chengxing, Canyu Chen, Feiran Jia, Ziyu Ye, Kai Shu, Adel Bibi, Ziniu Hu, Philip Torr, Bernard Ghanem, Guohao Li, Shiyang Lai, James Evans. 2024. “Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behaviors?” Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Bedoor Alshebli, Shahan Ali Memon, James Evans, Talal Rahwan. 2024. “China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together.” Scientific Reports

Justin Sulik,  Elizabeth Pontikes, Gary Lupyan, James Evans. 2025. “Why Do Scientists Disagree? A study of the psychological sciences.” Nature Human Behaviour.

Xu Fengli, Qi Wang, Esteban Moro, Lin Chen, Arianna Salazar Miranda, Marta C. González, Michele Tizzoni, Chaoming Song, Carlo Ratti, Luis Bettencourt, Yong Li, and James Evans. 2025. “Mobility Behaviour Data Quantifies Experienced Inequalities in Urban Space.” Nature Human Behaviour.

Bao Honglin, Jiawei Zhang, Mingxuan Cao and James Evans. 2025. “From Division to Unity: A Large-Scale Study on the Emergence of Computational Social Science, 1990-2021”. The Web Conference.

Fengli Xu Zhenyu, Yong Li, Tao Jiang, James Evans. 2025. “Model predicted human mobility explains COVID-19 transmission in urban space without behavioral data.” Scientific Reports

Junsol Kim, James Evans, Aaron Schein. 2025. “Linear Representations of Political Perspective Emerge in Large Language Models.”. ICLR..

Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans. 2025. “Differential impact from individual versus collective misinformation tagging on the diversity of Twitter (X) information engagement and mobility.” Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55868-0.

Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans. 2025 “Large AI Models are Cultural and Social Technologies.” Science 387(6739):1153-1156.

Laura Fürsich and Benjamin F. Jarvis. "The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden." European Sociological Review (2025): jcaf002.

Li Yiang and Linda J. Waite. 2025. “It is Not What You Weigh, It is How You Present It: Body Size, Attractiveness, Physical Functioning and Access to Partnership and Sexuality for Older Men and Women.” Social Forces. 

Jeffrey Lockhart, Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch. 2025. “Who Authors Social Science? Demographics and the Production of Knowledge.” Social Currents 12 (1): 17–29. 

Jeffrey Lockhart, Agustín Fuentes, Gina Rippon, and Lise Eliot. 2025. “Not so Binary or Generalizable: Brain Sex Differences with Artificial Neural Networks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (2): e2411917121. 

Jeffrey Lockhart. 2025. “Gender, Sex, and the Constraints of Machine Learning Methods.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, 327–42. Oxford University Press. 

Joshua Byun, & Hyunku Kwon. 2025. Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South. American Political Science Review

Yueran Zhang. 2025. "Accidentally Emboldened: Industrial Workers between Democracy and Despotism on the Shop Floor in Wuhan, China (1984-1985)." International Review of Social History, Cambridge University Press 

Robert Vargas[Opens in a new window], David Hackett, Sebastian Ortega, Elena Smyslovskikh and Federico Dominguez-Molina. 2025. "Academic Copaganda." Cambridge University Press. 

Ilana Ventura and René D. Flores. 2025. "The Rise of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

​René D. Flores, Edward Telles, and Ilana Ventura. 2024. "New OMB’s race and ethnicity standards will affect how Americans self-identify.” Sociological Science.

Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans. 2025. Differential impact from individual versus collective misinformation tagging on the diversity of Twitter (X) information engagement and mobility. Nature Communications, 16(1), 973.

Anna Fox. 2025. "Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Neighborhoods." Social Problems, spae076. 

Cameron Day. 2025. "Beyond Postpositivism: Dialectics, Epistemology, and Critical Sociology with Adorno and Horkheimer". Sociological Theory, 43(1), 67-90.

Alexandra Tate, Tanya Stivers. 2025. "Collusion in the Clinic: Constructing Patients’ Moral Responsibility to Treat Cancer." Qualitative Health Research. 

Brenda Bustor, Jason Bonham & Tim A. Bruckner. 2025. "Racial Identification Switching and Health among Mothers in California." Socius, 11

Jason Bonham, Ryan Schacht, Ken Smith, & Tim A. Bruckne. 2025. The Secondary Sex Ratio and Male Mortality at Pre‐Reproductive Ages: A Test of Selection In Utero. American Journal of Human Biology, 37(1), e24173.

Maurice Bokanga,  Benjamin Rohr, John Levi Martin. 2025 “Economic Networks and Political Culture” Pp. 66-76 in Handbook of Culture and Social Networks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Maurice Bokanga and John Levi Martin. “Duality, Dissimilarity, and Diversity: The Use of Ecological Approaches to Cross-nested Affiliation Data.” Social Networks

 

Linda Zhao and Lucas Drouhot. 2024. “The Grandchildren of Immigrants in Western Europe: Patterns of Assimilation Among the Emerging Third Generation.” Demography. 61 (2): 463–491

Marco Garrido. 2024. “The Spatial Organization of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 129(6):1579-1617. 

Marco Garrido. 2024. “Rodrigo Duterte as “the Trump of Asia”? The Limits and Pitfalls of Thin Comparison.” American Behavioral Scientist 68(13):1703-20. 

Marco Garrido, Marina Zaloznaya, and Nicholas Hoover Wilson. 2024. “A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption.” Sociology Compass 18(11) 

Kimberly Pernell, Kimberly and Geoffrey T. Wodtke. 2024. “The Distribution of Privately Held Business Assets in the United States.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 94:100933.

Shiyang Lai, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans. 2024. “Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation.” International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

Sourabh Balgi,  Adel Daoud, Jose M. Peña, Geoffrey T. Wodtke, and Jesse Zhou. 2024. “Deep Learning With DAGs.” Sociological Methods & Research 

Kazuo Yamaguchi, and Jesse Zhou. 2024. “Multivariate Multinomial Logit Models with Associations among Dependent Variables.” Sociological Methodology 54, no. 2 (2024): 351–384.

Ariela Schachter, Neda Maghbouleh, and René D. Flores. 2024. "To Uncover Disparities, Collect and Disaggregate Self-Identification Data for Middle Eastern and North African Americans." American Journal of Public Health.

Eman Abdelhadi and Anna Fox. 2024. “Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct Their Gender Ideologies.” Gender & Society 38(6):902-934.

Pete Aceves and James Evans. 2024. “Human Languages with Greater Information Density Increase Communication Speed, but Decrease Conversation Breadth.” Nature Human Behaviour.

E. Bower, R. Harrington-Abrams, and Betsy Priem. 2024. "Complicating “community” engagement: Reckoning with an elusive concept in climate-related planned relocation." Global Environmental Change 88:102913.

Liang Cai, C. R. Browning, and Kathleen A. Cagney. 2024. "Exposure of Neighborhood Racial and Socio-Economic Composition in Activity Space: A New Approach Adjusting for Residential Conditions." Social Forces.

James Evans and Jacob Foster 2024. “Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading.” Critical Inquiry 50(3): 375-401.

Shumeng Han and Xiangyi Ren. 2024. "Disobedient Children, Hybrid Filiality: Negotiating Parent–Child Relations in Local Legal System in Republican China, 1911–1949." Law and History Review 42(2):1-24.

Khwan Kim, Noah Askin, and James Evans. 2024. “Disrupted Routines Anticipate Musical Exploration.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ningzi Li, Shiyang Lai, and James Evans. 2024. “Big Data and the Computational Social Science of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” De Gruyter Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, eds. Olav Sorensen, Patricia Thornton.

Simon Schachter, Eric Chandler, Kiran Misra, and Robert Vargas. 2024. "The Social Structure of Private Donations to Police." Working Paper.

Linda Zhao and A.V. Papachristos. 2024. "Threats to Blue Networks: The Effect of Partner Injuries on Police Misconduct." American Sociological Review 89(1):159-195.

Ángela Zorro Medina, Stephanie Ternullo, and Robert Vargas. 2024. “How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago." Social Forces.

Ralph Catalano, Jason Bonham, Alison Gemmill, & Tim Bruckner. 2024. Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care. Epidemiology, 35(4), 499-505.

Luc Anselin and Pedro Amaral. 2023. “Endogenous Spatial Regimes.” Journal of Geographical Systems.

Ladak, Ali, Matti Wilks, and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2023. “Extending Perspective Taking to Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Entities.” Social Cognition 41(3):274–302. 

Anna Berg. 2023. "Anti-COVID = Anti-science? How protesters against COVID-19 measures appropriate science to navigate the information environment." New Media & Society.

Swarnabh Ghosh, Neil Brenner, and Nikos Katsikis. 2023. “The global industrial feedlot matrix: a metabolic monstrosity." Pp. 132-155 in Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Charles Waldheim eds., Technical Lands: A Critical Primer. Berlin: Jovis.

Elisabeth S. Clemens. 2023. “Political Institutions” in Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso, eds., The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology.

Molly Lewis and James Evans. 2023. “Local similarity and global variability characterize the semantic space of human languages.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. free. 

Yong Li, Yunke Zhang, Fengli Xu, Lin Chen, Yuan Yuan, James Evans, and Luis Bettencourt. 2023. “Counterfactual Mobility Network Embedding Reveals Prevalent Accessibility Gaps in U.S. Cities.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. free.

David Wolpert, Stefani Crabtree, Michael Price, Manfred Laubichler, Timothy Kohler, James Evans, Hajime Shimao, Juergen Jost, Peter Stadler. 2023. “The Past as a Stochastic Process.” Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology. free.

Nandana Sengupta, Neaketa Chawla, Anna Agrawal, and James Evans. 2023. “Do online certifications improve job market outcomes? Evidence from an IT skills certification platform in India.” Information Economics and Policy 65: 10167. free. 

Eamon Duede, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani and James Evans. 2023. “Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance”. Research Policy 53(2): 104911. free.

Donghyun Kang and James Evans. 2023. “Scientific Networks.” SAGE Social Network Analysis Handbook. 

Haizi Yu, James Evans, Lav Varshney. 2023. “Information Lattice Learning”. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 

Jamshid Souratiand James Evans. 2023. “Accelerating Science though Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence”. Nature Human Behaviour.

Gengjie Jia, Yu Li, Xue Zhong, Kanix Wang, Milton Pividori, Rabab Alomairy, Aniello Esposito, Hatem Ltaief, Chikashi Terao, Masato Akiyama, Koichi Matsuda, David E. Keyes, Hae Kyung Im, Takashi Gojobori, Yoichiro Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Nancy J. Cox, James Evans, Xin Gao, Andrey Rzhetsky. 2023. “The High-dimensional Space of Human Diseases Built from Diagnosis Records and Mapped to Genetic Loci.” Nature Computational Science. 

Nandana Sengupta, Ashwini Vaidya, and James Evans. 2023. “In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India.” ACM FAccT.

Pedro Aceves and James Evans. 2023. “Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory within Organization Science”. Organization Science.

James Evans, Tyler Reigeluth, and Adrian Johns. 2023. “The Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After” in Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present. Osiris 38; University of Chicago Press. 

James Evans and Adrian Johns. 2023. “How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures” in Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures, Past and Present. Osiris 38; University of Chicago Press.

Abdullah Almaatouq, Thomas Griffiths, Jordan W. Suchow, Mark Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan Watts. 2023. “Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Feng Shi and James Evans. 2023. “Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines”. Nature Communications.

Reyna I. Hernandez. 2023. “Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness Behind Prison Walls." Law & Social Inquiry. 

Donghyun Kang and James Evans. 2023. "Scientific Networks." Pp. 225-241 in The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Second Edition.

René D. Flores, María Vignau Loria, and Regina Martínez-Casas. 2023. "Transitory vs. Durable Boundary Crossing: What Explains the Indigenous Population Boom in Mexico?" American Journal of Sociology.

Marco Garrido. 2023. “The Housing Divide in the Global South.” Chapter in The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape our Social Lives, edited by Brian J. McCabe and Eva Rosen. University of Chicago Press.

Julian Go. 2023. Policing Empires: Race, Imperialism and Militarization in the US and Great Britain, 1829-present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Julian Go. 2023. “Social Perspectival Realism and Theoretical Innovation.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.

Julian Go. 2023. "Reverberations of Empire: How the Colonial Past Shapes the Present.” Social Science History.

Julian Go. 2023. “Anticolonial Thought, the Sociological Imagination, and Social Science: A Reply to Critics.” British Journal of Sociology.

Julian Go. 2023. “Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory.” British Journal of Sociology. Online first.

Hans Joas. 2023. Moral Change and the Ambiguity of Religions: Christianity between Racism and the Struggle against It. Uppsala: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.

Donghyun Kang, TaeYoung Kang, and Junkyu Jang. 2023. "Papers with code or without code? Impact of GitHub repository usability on the diffusion of machine learning research." Information Processing & Management 60(6):103477.

Hyunku Kwon and John Levi Martin. 2023. “Subjective Political Polarization." Sociological Science.

Allison Reed. 2023. "Repertoires of Care and Activist Sustainability in U.S. Social Justice Organizing." Mobilization.

Kristen Schilt and Kimberly Kay Hoang. 2023. "Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium.” American Journal of Sociology.

Peter Forberg and Kristen Schilt (equal authorship). 2023. “What’s Ethnographic about Digital Ethnography? A Sociological Perspective.” Frontiers in Sociology.

Nicolás Torres-Echeverry. 2023. “Social Media, Meet Old Politics: Preservation and Innovation in Colombian Presidential Elections, 2010-2018.” Theory & Society.

Ilana M. Ventura and Angela S. García. 2023. "Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19." International Migration Review.

Linda Zhao. 2023. “From Superdiversity to Consolidation: Implications of Structural Intersectionality for Interethnic Friendships.” American Journal of Sociology 128(4):993-1289.

Linda Zhao. 2023. “Networks in the Making: Friendship Segregation and Ethnic Homophily.” Social Science Research 110:102813.

Xiaogao Zhou and Songyin Liu. 2023. “Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China.” Social Problems.

Ángela Zorro Medina. 2023. “Una evaluación experimental de los acuerdos penales en Colombia” (“An Experimental Evaluation of Criminal Settlements in Colombia”). In Justicia penal y mecanismos de condena sin juicio, edited by M. Langer and M. Sozzo.