Publications

"The Racialization of Privacy: Racial Formation is a Family Affair" (with Jessica Vasquez-Tokos) Theory & Society, January, 2021 (Winner of Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender and Class Section)
"Deportability and (Dis)unification: Family Status and U.S. Immigration Policy (with Allison Gash), book chapter in The Family, The Amercian State and Poitical Development, 2019
"Illegalizing" Families: State, Status and Deportability," (with Allison Gash), New Political Science, 2019, (Recieved Christan Bay Award Best Conference Paper Award, New Political Science, APSA, 2017)
"Constructing the Sex Trafficker: Spectral Figures and Sexual Violence in Calfornia's Propostion 35," (with Daniel HoSang), New Political Science, 2016
"State, Status and the American Family," (with Alison Gash), Polity, April 2016
"The Importance of Political Identity in Studying Instituitons," Politics, Groups, Identities, June 2013
Book: American Marriage: A Political Institution, University of Pennsylvania Press, Fall 2012, https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15020.html
"The Search for Marital Order: Civic Membership and the Politics of Marriage in the Progressive Era," Vol 41, No 1, January 2009, Polity

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