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Most Violence Against Emergency Medical Service Workers Goes Unreported

Lauren Bailey and Bryce Hruska
This brief describes the absence of a national reporting system for EMS and the workplace culture that discourages workers from speaking up. The authors describe how, unlike law enforcement, EMS workers lack federal legal protections and a standardized way to report violent incidents, leaving agencies and policymakers without the data needed to protect them.
October 27, 2026

Structural Violence and Community Action for Health Equity

Robert A. Rubinstein, Sandra D. Lane

The chapter, co-authored by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Robert Rubinstein and Professor Emerita of Public Health Sandra Lane, was published in the De Gruyter Handbook of Structural Violence.

October 26, 2026

When Every Second Counts: Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Bystander CPR for Opioid-Related Cardiac Arrests

Dessa K. Bergen-Cico, Alexandra Punch, and Mary E. Helander

This brief describes racial and ethnic gaps in bystander CPR for opioid-related cardiac arrests. The authors find that Black patients were 30 percent less likely, and Hispanic patients 19 percent less likely, than White patients to receive bystander CPR. Rates rose across all groups when 911 dispatchers walked callers through CPR instructions, though that benefit was strongest for White patients.

October 22, 2026

Making/Mapping Memories: A Dialogue on Form, Method, and the Politics of Maps and Memory

Meghan Kelly, Timur Hammond

The article, co-authored by Meghan Kelly and Timur Hammond, both faculty members in the Geography and the Environment Department, was published in Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.

October 21, 2026

See related: Cartography

How Will SNAP Food Restriction Waivers Impact Participants and Retailers?

Michele Ver Ploeg, Colleen Heflin, and Joanne Guthrie

This brief builds a framework for evaluating how SNAP food restriction waivers could affect participants, retailers, and food manufacturers.

October 21, 2026

State Policies and County Contexts Collectively Shape Working‑Age Mortality

Iliya Gutin, Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon M. Monnat, Emily E. Wiemers, and Douglas A. Wolf
This brief describes how state policy contexts and local economic conditions jointly shape working-age mortality across roughly 3,000 U.S. counties from 1990 to 2019. The authors find that death rates were lowest in economically secure counties located in states with more liberal policy contexts (i.e., states that take a more active role in shaping the economy and supporting residents' material and physical wellbeing). 
October 20, 2026

Legitimacy, Performance and Cooptation: Editorial for the Special Issue on Allusions, Illusions, and Delusions of Political Power

Selina Gallo-Cruz

Selina Gallo-Cruz, associate professor of sociology, edited a special issue for the Journal of Political Power, Vol. 19, Issue 3, “Allusions, Illusions and Delusions of Power” and authored the introductory editorial.

October 19, 2026

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

Jan Schwalbach, Lukas Hetzer, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh, Miklós Sebők

The article, co-authored by Miklós Sebők, faculty fellow and senior research associate in the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, was published in Nature Scientific Data.

October 14, 2026

See related: Europe, Government, Law

“I’m Terrified to Go to School”: Refugee Youth’s Perceptions of Mass School Shootings and School Violence

Ashley Cureton, Erick R. Aguinaldo, Sean J. Drake

The article, co-authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Sean Drake, was published in Children & Society.

October 12, 2026

Racialized Urbanism on the “Balkan Route”: Racial and Spatial Junctures of Postsocialist Transformations and Border Regimes

Martino Zibetti, Azra Hromadžić, Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik

Co-authored by Professor of Anthropology Azra Hromadžić, the article was published in the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

October 7, 2026

Claiming Learners’ Time: Adult Learning Among Midlife Chinese Immigrant Women in the United States

Bo Jian, Merril Silverstein

The article, co-authored by Professor and Chair of Sociology Merril Silverstein, was published in Studies in the Education of Adults.

October 6, 2026

Examining the Relationship Between Temperature and Firearm Violence: A Comparison of Metrics

Hao Zhang, Bryce Hruska

The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Public Health Bryce Hruska and public health alum Hao Zhang, was published PLOS One.

October 1, 2026

Who Enters and Who Exits Direct Care Jobs in Long-Term Care Settings?

Krista Ruffini, Karen Shen, Yulya Truskinovsky

Co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Yulya Truskinovsky, the article was published by Brookings.

September 29, 2026

Partisanship and the Social Construction of Deservingness in the United States

Christopher Ellis, Christopher Faricy

The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Political Science Christopher Faricy, was published in Political Behavior.

September 28, 2026

Dollars Don’t Make Sense: How Russian Savers Responded to Sanctions

Daniel McDowell⁠, David A Steinberg

Co-authored by Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs Daniel McDowell, the article was published in International Studies Quarterly. 

September 25, 2026

Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documented History of Antisemitism in the United States

Britt Tevis

Britt Tevis, Phyllis Backer Professor of Jewish Studies and assistant professor of history, has edited an anthology, Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documented History of Antisemitism in the United States (Yale University Press, 2026). Tevis uses a variety of sources to chart the course of antisemitism in the United States from the colonial period to the present day.

September 17, 2026

Self-Reflection Resilience-Recovery Activity Promotion Training for Emergency Medical Service Clinicians: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of a Novel Digital Intervention

Bryce Hruska, Bernard Appiah, Collins Annor, Maria L. Pacella-LaBarbara, Marley S. Barduhn

The article, co-authored by Bryce Hruska and Bernard Appiah, both associate professors of public health, and Collins Annor ’25 MPH, was published in the International Journal of Stress Management.

September 15, 2026

Why Smart City Megaprojects Failed: Learning From the Past and Planning for the Future

Austin Zwick, Nathan Olmstead, Zachary Spicer

The article, co-authored by Associate Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick, was published in Cities.

September 11, 2026

Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America

Andrew Wender Cohen

Andrew Wender Cohen, professor and director of graduate studies in the History Department, has written Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2026). The book traces the extraordinary life of Louis Bieral, a 19th-century gangster, politician, sportsman and Civil War hero whose turbulent journey illuminates the violence woven into the fabric of American life.

September 4, 2026

See related: Crime & Violence

Conceptualizing Moral Migration: How Disillusionment and the Transnational Right Motivate Migration to Russia

Lauren Woodard

The article, authored by Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, was published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

August 31, 2026

See related: Migration, Russia, United States

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