PDF Copies of Research Studies

Below are pre-publication copies of all of my studies [Please contact me if you have any trouble in accessing them]


2023. The Perfect Storm? Political Instability and Background Checks During COVID-19International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 12, 15–26.

2023. Do Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe Differ from US Mass Shootings? Insights from the (MSCEE) Data SetJournal of Mass Violence Research. Onlinefirst.

2022. Discourse, Antagonisms, and Identities during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 128, 39-602022. Military Defection during the Collapse of the Soviet UnionCentral European Journal of International and Security Studies, 16(2), 26-53.

2022. Heidegger and the Technocratic Warping of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Onlinefirst.

2022. Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism: Authoritarian Liberalism or Democratic Backsliding?. Journal of Political Power. Onlinefirst. 

2021. Reinforcing Criticisms of Civil Resistance: A Response to Onken, Shemia-Goeke, and Martin. Critical Sociology 47(7-8), 1205–1218.

2021. Identity, Repression, and the Collapse of ApartheidStrategic Review for Southern Africa 43(2), 308-336.

2021. Humanity and the Disruption of the Cosmos: How Berdyaev Foresaw our Reliance on Machines. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 17(3), 33–59.

2021. The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western HegemonyPolitikon 48(2), 331-346.

2020. Unravelling the Complex Nature of Security Force DefectionGlobal Change, Peace and Security 32(2), 135-55.

2020. Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance. Critical Sociology 46(7-8), 1121-1139.

2020. Exogenous Events and Media Reporting of Mass Shootings. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. 13(2), 160-173.

2020. The Revolutions of 1989 and Defection in Warsaw Pact States. Democracy and Security 16(2), 151-178.

2019. Violence, Resistance, and Social Transformation in Anarchist Thought and Practice. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work 38(4), 383-400.

2019. Mass Shootings and their Asymmetric Effect on Civilian Armament. Crime, Law and Social Change 72(4), 483-500.

2019. Comparing Protest Massacres. Journal of Historical Sociology 32(2), 258-274.

2019. Diverse and Alternative Economic Practice in The Trailer Park Boys Series, 2002-2018. Journal of Cultural Geography 36(3), 317-345.

2019. Tracing the State of Nature in Stephen King’s Under the Dome. Socialism and Democracy 33(1), 166-185.

2018. A Distinction Without a Difference: Examining the Causal Pathways Behind Ideologically Motivated Mass Public Shootings. Homicide Studies 22(3), 235-255. Co-authored with Joel Capellan.

2018. Social Causation and Protest Mobilization: Why Temporality and Interaction Matter. Territory, Politics, Governance 6(3), 279-301.

2018. A Configurational Analysis of 44 U.S. Mass Shootings: 1975-2015. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 42(1), 55-73.

2017. Antagonisms and the Discursive Sedimentation of American Gun Culture: A New Framework. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 17(2), 133-139.

2016. Repression, Spontaneity, and Collective Action: The 2013 Turkish Gezi Protests. Journal of Civil Society 12(4), 411-429.

2016. Violence Begets Violence: Why States Should Not Lethally Repress Popular Protest. International Journal of Human Rights 20(7), 893-913.

2014. The Russian Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1905: A Discursive Account of Nonviolent Transformation. Politics, Groups and Identities 2(4), 643-660.

2014. Adverse Repression and Social Transformation: A Political Process Model. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies Volume 8(2), ISSN 2327-0071.