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Submissions from 2024
The Devil’s outriders: a LiDAR and KOCOA investigation of the battle of Buckhead Creek, 1864, Ryan K. McNutt
Does Where We Live Matter To Oral Health? Tensions Between Rural Older Adults’ Concept of Community and Health Individualism, Swaha Pattanaik, April M. Schueths Dr., Raymona H. Lawrence, Bettye A. Apenteng, and Georgia Dounis
Submissions from 2023
Brief Historical Summary of the Tybee Lazaretto, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Milling Around in Scriven**, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2022
Paleoindian and Early Archaic South Carolina, Kara Bridgman Sweeney, J. Christopher Gillam, and Christopher R. Moore
“Well Duh, That’s How You Raise a Kid”: Gender-Open Parenting in a (Non)Binary World, Elizabeth Rahilly
The Role of Fisher Engagement in the Acceptance of Turtle Excluder Devices in Georgia's Shrimping Industry, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Tracy Yandle, and Bryan Fluech
An Assessment of the Viability of a Commercial Lionfish Fishery in the US Virgin Islands, Tracy Yandle, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Paulita Bennett-Martin, Sherry Larkin, and Michael Page
The Call2Care Program: Linking College Students and Older Adults, Jennifer Zorotovich and Adrienne Cohen
Death Education among Social Science College Students: The Good, the Bad, and the Unchanged, Jennifer Zorotovich and Adrienne L. Cohen
Submissions from 2021
Brotherhood and sexism as manhood acts for trans men in the Southeastern United States, Megan Y. Phillips and Baker Rogers
Kurdish Identity, Resistance, and Agenda Setting in a Time of Renewed Turkish Hostility: Social Media and the HDP, Ned Rinalducci
Drag Kings, Baker A. Rogers
Evidence for Hope?: Mississippi Christians’ Views Toward Gay and Lesbian Equality Post Obergefell v. Hodges, Baker A. Rogers
Family Preservation Strategies: Regendering Labor in Mixed-Status Marriage After Co-Deportation, April M. Schueths Dr. and Nathan S. Palmer
“You Can’t Catch ‘Em and Sell ‘Em”: Perceptions of Obstacles to Direct Marketing among Georgia Fishers, Jennifer Tookes and Tracy Yandle
Submissions from 2020
Child Victim Services in the Time of COVID-19: New Challenges and Innovative Solutions, Chad Posick, April Schueths, P. Cary Christian, Jonathan A. Grubb, and Suzanne E. Christian
Trans Manhood: The Intersections of Masculinity and the South, Baker Rogers
Researching while queer: a research note about a genderqueer lesbian conducting qualitative research in the southeastern United States, Baker A. Rogers
Welcome to the Danger Zone: Trans Equality in Southeastern U.S., Baker A. Rogers
Expanding Our View: Demographic, Behavioral, and Contextual Factors in College Sexual Victimization, Sarah A. Rogers and Baker Rogers
Trans Men’s Pathways to Incarceration, Sarah A. Rogers and Baker Rogers
Review of "Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed Status Immigrant Families, April M. Schueths
Evaluating the Economic Viability of Inland Seafood Markets in Georgia: A Two Pronged Approach, Gina Louise Shamshak, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, and Tracy Yandle
Using Markets to Control Invasive Species: Lionfish in the US Virgin Islands, Skyler Simnitt, Lisa House, Sherry L. Larkin, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, and Tracy Yandle
In the Wake of Two Storms: An Impact Assessment of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the St. Croix and St. Thomas Fisheries, USVI, Brent Stoffle, Amanda Stoltz, Scott Crosson, and Jennifer Tookes
US Virgin Islands Fishing Community Resilience: Informing a Research Agenda, Jennifer Tookes, Tracy Yandle, and Cynthia Grace-McCaskey
Submissions from 2019
Review of New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians edited by David K. Thulman and Ervan G. Garrison, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Brazil and the US Internet-Based Medicines, Matthew B. Flynn, Tiago Coutinho, and Vera Lucia Luiza
Common barriers to healthcare for transgender people in the U.S. Southeast, Austin Johnson, Ivy Hill, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Baker Rogers, and Andrew Bradford
“We're the Normal Ones Here”: Community Involvement, Peer Support, and Transgender Mental Health, Austin H. Johnson and Baker A. Rogers
Book Review of Trans People in Higher Education Edited by Genny Beemyn, Baker A. Rogers
“Contrary to All the Other Shit I’ve Said”: Trans Men Passing in the South, Baker A. Rogers
Finding Yourself: Drag Kinging as a Resource, Baker A. Rogers
American Sociological Association: Sociology in Action, Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare, April M. Schueths
They Watch for Color: Mixed-status Couples Experience With the Police, April M. Schueths
Permanent Catholic Deacons: Balancing Work, Family Life, and Ministry, William L. Smith
Southern Jews and Jewish Southerners in Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Moving the Body: Physical Activity among Barbadians, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes
Traveling to Market: Provision Grounds and the Caribbean Higgler, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes
Submissions from 2018
Contextualizing Early Villages in Pre-Columbian Florida: Review of "New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River" by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
The Motivations for Food Exchanges in the Lives of Rural Older Adults, Adrienne L. Cohen
Community Needs Assessment, 2018, Adrienne L. Cohen, Jennifer Zorotovich, Ryan Arflin, and T. Johnson
Review of Craddock, Susan, “Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health, Matthew B. Flynn
Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, Matthew B. Flynn and Michael J. Flynn
Uneven Business: Privatization of Immigration Detention in Europe, Matthew B. Flynn, Michael J. Flynn, and Eryn Wagnon
Partnerships between an At-Risk Youth CrossFit Program and Local Community Organizations: Focusing on the Antecedents to Partnership Development, Christina Gipson, Natalie Campbell, and Nancy L. Malcom
Defining "Community" from the Perspectives of Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease in Rural Georgia, Raymona H. Lawrence, Bettye A. Apenteng, April M. Schueths, Swaha Pattanaik, and Robert W. Gibson
From William’s Doll to Jacob’s New Dress: The Depiction of Gender Non-Conforming Boys in Children’s Picture Books From 1972 to 2014, Nancy L. Malcom and Nicole Sheahan
Risk Factors For The Ill-defined Causes Of Death In The Brazilian States: A Multilevel Analysis, Nadia Cristina Pinheiro Rodrigues, Regina Paiva Daumas, Andrea Sobral de Almeida, Gisele O'Dwyer, Monica Kramer de Noronha Andrade, Matthew B. Flynn, and Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino
Drag as a Resource: Trans* and Non-Binary Individuals in the Southeastern United States, Baker Rogers
What’s in a Label: The Lesbian Generational Divide, Baker Rogers
Not Really Single: The Deportation to Welfare Pathway for U.S. Citizen Mothers in Mixed-Status Marriage, April M. Schueths
Review of "College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults", William L. Smith
The Personal Religious Experiences of Cistercian Monks, William L. Smith
Jewish Identity in a Deep Southern City, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Multiple Scales of Interaction in the Early Side-Notched Horizon, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
The Case for Local and Sustainable Seafood: A Georgia Example, Jennifer Sweeney Tookes, Peggy Bartlett, and Tracy Yandle
Teaching Social Inequality through Analysis of Hidden Assumptions in Non-Academic Publications, Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2017
Support Network Connectedness in the Lives of Community Dwelling Rural Elders and Their Families, Adrienne L. Cohen and Colleen R. Bennett
Tiny samples: the utility of ACTUS, an alternate method of contingency table analysis using simulation in bioarcheology and paleopathology, Virginia Estabrook, David A. Prosser, and Elizabeth Sobel
An Evaluation of a Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program in the Rural South, Shanna N. Felix, Laura E. Agnich, and April M. Schueths
Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals About the Global Spread of Detention, Matthew B. Flynn
Review of Lasker, Judith N., Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering, Matthew B. Flynn
Introduction: The Immigration Detention Puzzle In Interdisciplinary Perspective, Matthew B. Flynn and Michael J. Flynn
Pharmaceutical Policy in Brazil, Vera Lucia Luiza, Maria Auxiliadora Oliveira, Gabriela Costas Chaves, Jorge Antonio Zepeda Bermudez, and Matthew B. Flynn
Do Open Educational Resources Help Contingent Sociology Faculty Acquire Teaching Resources and Form Collegial Relationships?, Nathan S. Palmer, Ted Brimeyer, and April M. Schueths
Distribution of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Rio De Janeiro (Brazil): a Spatial Analysis, Nadia Christina Rodrigues, Monica Kramer Andrade, Gisele O'Dwyer, Matthew B. Flynn, Jose Ueleres Braga, Andrea Sobral de Almeida, Leonardo Soares Bastos, and Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino
The Increase in Domestic Violence in Brazil From 2009-2014, Nadia Christina Rodrigues, Gisele O'Dwyer, Monica Kramer Andrade, Matthew B. Flynn, Denise Leite Maia Monteiro, and Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino
Between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism: Religious Vitality in a Beachy Amish Mennonite Congregation, William L. Smith
Prayer in an American Cistercian monastery, William L. Smith
Religiousness and Spirituality Among Jewish Members and Friends of a Southern Jewish Organization, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Southern Assumptions: Normalizing Racialized Structures at a University in the Deep South, Dina Walker-Devose, Akiv Dawson, April Schueths, Ted Brimeyer, and Jonique Y. Freeman
Mulberry Site (38KE12) May 2017 LiDAR Technical Report, M. Jared Wood
Pend in a Pine Grove: Archaeology of the Confederate POW Camp at Blackshear, Georgia, M. Jared Wood, Lance Greene, and Inger Wood
Terra incognita: Terrestrial LiDAR Documentation of Mound A at Kolomoki (9ER1), M. Jared Wood and Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Submissions from 2016
The Effects of Adoption Openness and Type on the Mental Health, Delinquency, and Family Relationships of Adopted Youth, Laura E. Agnich, April M. Schueths, Tiffany D. James, and Jeff J. Klibert
Social Class Sentiments in Formation: Influence of Class Socialization, College Socialization, and Class Aspirations, Ted Brimeyer, JoAnn Miller, and Robert Perucci
What Do Unions Do? Media Framing of the Two-Faces of Labor, Ted Brimeyer, Eric O. Silva, and R. Jolene Byrne
Social Supports as Enabling Factors in Nursing Home Admissions: Rural, Suburban, and Urban Differences, Adrienne L. Cohen and Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda
Fragmentary skeletal remains, trauma, and sampling biases: Quantifying antemortem traumatic data lost due to fragmentation in samples from Hasanlu Teppe, Iran (12th-9th Centuries B.C.E)., Virginia Estabrook, Hanna D. Polasky, and Janet M. Monge
From Bare Life to Bureaucratic Capitalism: Analyzing the Growth of the Immigration Detention Industry as a Complex Organization, Matthew B. Flynn
Online Survey Administrated in a Foreign Country, Matthew B. Flynn
Review of Ritter, Daniel, The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, Matthew B. Flynn
Inventory of Historic Battlefields: Battle of Sark, Ryan K. McNutt
Sociology Source Website, Nathan S. Palmer
Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Rates in Brazil, 1997-2012, Nadia Christina Rodrigues, Denise Leite Maia Monteiro, Andrea Sobral de Almeida, Andre Pereira Neto, Gisele O'Dwyer, Monica Kramer Andrade, Matthew B. Flynn, and Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino
Data That Save Lives: Suicide & The Crisis Text Line, April M. Schueths
Review of the book, “Nepali Migrant Women: Resistance and Survival in America”, April M. Schueths
Family Encouragement and Life Experiences: The Road to the Monastic Life, William L. Smith
Vocation Stories of Cistercian Monks, William L. Smith
Cultural Resources Field Verification and Inventory Survey in the Kanna Watershed, Central Training Area (CTA), MCB Camp Smedley D. Butler, Ginoza-son, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kara Bridgman Sweeney, Alexander Y. Sweeney, Naoki Higa, Takumi Kishimoto, Keiichi Ueda, and Naho Ishiki
9DU2 Terrestrial LiDAR Technical Report, M. Jared Wood
Blackshear Confederate Prison Camp Terrestrial LiDAR Technical Report, M. Jared Wood
Kolomoki (9ER1) Mound A: 3-Dimensional Documentation and Condition Assessment LiDAR Technical Report, M. Jared Wood and Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Terra incognita, M. Jared Wood and Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Submissions from 2015
Enhancing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Micro-Level Collaboration across Two Disciplines, Nancy M. Arrington and Adrienne L. Cohen
U.S. Army Reserve Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Update, 81st Regional Support Command, Louisiana, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
