selected publications academic article Finding 'Safe' Campuses: Predicting the Presence of LGBT Student Groups at North Carolina Colleges and Universities. Journal of Homosexuality. 60:828-852. 2013 LGBT religious activism: Predicting state variations in the number of metropolitan community churches, 1974-2000. Sociological Forum. 28:135-158. 2013 'Out' in Columbus: A Geospatial Analysis of the Neighborhood-Level Distribution of Gay and Lesbian Households. City and Community. 10:131-156. 2011 You've won, now what? The influence of legal change on gay and lesbian mobilization, 1974-1999. Sociological Quarterly. 51:255-277. 2010 Timing matters: Shifts in the causal determinants of sodomy law decriminalization, 1961-1998. Social Problems. 54:211-239. 2007 Social support and career optimism: Examining the effectiveness of network groups among black managers. Human Relations. 51:1155-1176. 1998 Shaping judicial law in the Post-World War II period: When is labor's legal mobilization successful?. Sociological Inquiry. 67:275-298. 1997 chapter Decriminalizing homosexuality: Gaining rights through sodomy law reform. The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism. 275-289. 2015 Mobilizing in response to threat: The case of the ex-gay movement. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. 227-256. 2012 Urban Metabolism and Payment for Ecosystem Services: History and Policy Analysis of the New York City Water Supply. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources. 307-328. 2007
research overview Areas of Interest: Social Movements, Stratification and Inequality, Gay and Lesbian Politics, Gender, Political Sociology