Northern Illinois University

Department of Sociology

professor robin moremen

Recent Faculty Publications

Bah, Abu Bakarr. (2006). “Racial Profiling and the War on Terror: Changing Trends and Perspectives.” Ethnic Studies Review, 29: 76-100.

Bah, Abu Bakarr. (2005). Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria. Landham, MD: Lexington Books.

Bah, Abu Bakarr. (Forthcoming). “State Decay and Civil War: A Discourse on Power in Sierra Leone.” Critical Sociology.

Burchfield, Keri B. and William Mingus. (2008). “Not in My Neighborhood:  Assessing Registered Sex Offenders’ Experiences with Local Social Capital and Social Control.”  Journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior 35: 356-374.

Richard B. Felson, Brent E. Teasdale and Keri B. Burchfield.  (2008). “The Influence of Being Under the Influence:  Alcohol Effects on Adolescent Violence.”  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 45:119-141.

Felson, Richard B., Keri B. Burchfield and Brent E. Teasdale.  (2007).  “The Impact of Alcohol on Different Types of Violent Incidents.”  Journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior 34: 1057-1068.

Crawford, Cassandra S. (2009). "From Pleasure to Pain: The Role of the MPQ in the Language of Phantom Limb Pain." Social Science and Medicine 69 (5): 655-661. 

Crawford, Cassandra S. (2009). "The Inarticulacy/Indescribability of Pain: A Rejoinder to Mowat." Social Science and Medicine 69 (5): 666-669.

Ferris Kerry O. (2009). "How Does it Feel to be a Star? The Identification of Emotion on the Red Carpet", with Scott R. Harris. Human Studies 32 (3): 133-152.

Ferris, Kerry O.  (2008). The Real World:  An Introduction to Sociology, with Jill M. Stein. W.W. Norton and Company.

Ferris, Kerry O. (Forthcoming, 2010). "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby: Celebrity Impersonators and their Audiences." Text and Performance Quarterly.

Ferris, Kerry O.  (Forthcoming). “Building Characters:  The Work of Celebrity Impersonators.” The Journal of Popular Culture.

Ferris, Kerry O.  (2007). “The Sociology of Celebrity.” Sociology Compass 1:371–384.

Goar, Carla.  (2008). "Even the Rats are White: Power and Privilege in Experimental Methodology," in White Logic, White Methods:  Racism and Methodology (eds. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tufuku Zuberi). New York: Rowman and Little.

Goar, Carla.  (2007).  “Social Identity Theory and the Reduction of Inequality: Can Cross-Cutting Categorization Reduce Inequality in Mixed-Race Groups?”  Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal. 35(4):525-536.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Carla Goar, and David Embrick. (2006). “When Whites Flock: The Social Psychology of White Habitus.” Critical Sociology 32 (2-3): 229-254.

Markowitz, Fred E.  (2006). “Psychiatric Hospital Capacity, Homelessness, and Crime and Arrest Rates.” Criminology 44: 45-72.

Miller, Kirk. (2008). “Racial Profiling and Pretextual Stops: Results from a Self-Report Survey.” Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 6(2).

Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. (2008). “Policing Piracy: A Study in Corporate Crime Control.”  Journal of Crime and Justice.

Miller, Kirk.  (2007).  “Racial Profiling and Postmodern Society: Police Responsiveness, Image Maintenance, and the Left Flank of Police Legitimacy.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24: 248-262.

Miller, Kirk.  (2007).  “Traversing the Spatial Divide? Gender, Place and Delinquency.”  Feminist Criminology 2:202-222.

Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Cynthia Pfaff Wright, Ronald Czaja, and Kirk Miller. (2006). "Self-Reports of Police Speeding Stops by Race: Results from the North Carolina Reverse Record Check Survey." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 22: 279-297.

Moremen, Robin D.  (2008).  Best Friends: The Role of Confidants in Older Women’s Health.  Journal of Women and Aging.  20(1/2): 149-167.

Moremen, Robin D.  (2008).  The Downside of Friendship: Sources of Strain in Older Women’s Friendships.  Journal of Women & Aging.  20(1/2): 169-187.

Myers, Kristen. (2005).  Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight.  New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

Robison, Kristopher K., Edward M. Crenshaw and J. Craig Jenkins. (2006). "Ideologies of Violence: The Social Origins of Islamist and Leftist Transnational Terrorism." Social Forces. 84(4):2027-2046.

Crenshaw, Edward M. and Kristopher K. Robison.  (2006). “Globalization and the Digital Divide:  The Roles of Structural Conduciveness and Global Connection in Internet Diffusion.” Social Science Quarterly. 87(1):  191-207.

Crenshaw, Edward M. and Kristopher K. Robison. (2006). “Jump Starting the Internet Revolution: How Global Connections Help the Diffusion of the Internet.” Journal of the Association of Information Systems. Special Issue on the Digital Divide  7(1): 3.

Rodgers, Diane M. (2009). "The Use of the Talmudic Format for the Presentation of Qualitative Research." Symbolic Interaction 32 (3): 260-281.

Rodgers, Diane M.  (2008).  Debugging the Link Between Social Theory and Social Insects. Louisiana State University Press.

Sandlin, Jennifer A. and Carol S. Walther. (2009). "Complicated Simplicity: Moral Identity Formation and Social Movement Learning in the Voluntary Simplicity Movement." Adult Education Quarterly 59: 298-317.