Research and Publications

Monographs 

   2022, Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament. Routledge.

2022, Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.

2022, Mechanisms and the Contingency of Social Causality. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  2023, Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic. De Gruyter.

2024, The Singularity of State Repression. Vernon Press

Peer-reviewed Studies

[36] 2025. Postmaterialism and voluntary childlessness. Journal of Family Studies. Onlinefirst.

[35] 2025. Fraternisation and Repression During the 2020–2021 Attempted Revolution in Belarus. Contemporary Politics, 31(2), 261-281

[34] 2024. Fame Seeking Mass Shooters in Eastern Europe. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 32(3), 695-710.

[33] 2024. Nonviolence and morally-induced property destruction. In, Martin, Brian, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Isak Svensson, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Alexei Anisin, Antoine Durance, and Manuel Cervera-Marzal. On Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, 2(2), 257–291. 

[32] 2024. Riots, Civil Resistance, and External Intervention in the Failed 2022 Kazakhstan Revolution. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 51(3), 299-321. 

[31] 2023. Problematizing the Diversity Debit Hypothesis. Journal of BRICS Studies, 2(1), 1–21.

[30] 2023. The Perfect Storm? Political Instability and Background Checks During COVID-19. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 12, 15–26.

[29] 2023. Resistance and Military Defection in Turkey. Co-authored with Pelin Ayan Musil. Mediterranean Politics, 28(2), 202-226.

[28] 2023. Do Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe Differ from US Mass Shootings? Insights from the (MSCEE) Data Set. Journal of Mass Violence Research. Onlinefirst.

[27] 2022. Discourse, Antagonisms, and Identities during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 128, 39-60.

[26] 2022. Military Defection During the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 16(2), 26-53.

[25] 2022. Comparing central and Eastern European mass shootings to American mass shootings. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 47(4), 341-362.

[24] 2022. Pandemic Surveillance Capitalism: Authoritarian Liberalism or Democratic Backsliding? Journal of Political Power, 15(2), 262-278.

[23] 2022. Heidegger and the Technocratic Warping of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 22(3), 321-332.

[22] 2022. Protester-Police Fraternization in the 2013 Gezi Park Uprisings. Co-authored with Pelin Ayan Musil. Social Movement Studies. 21(4), 395-412. 

[21] 2021. Identity, Repression, and the Collapse of Apartheid. Strategic Review for Southern Africa 43(2), 308-336.

[20] 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.

[19] 2021. Reinforcing Criticisms of Civil Resistance: a Response to Onken, Shemia-Goeke, and Martin. Critical Sociology. 47(7-8), 1205–1218.

[18] 2021. The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western Hegemony. Politikon 48(2), 331-346.

[17] 2021. Exogenous Events and Media Reporting of Mass Shootings. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression 13(2), 160-173.

[16] 2020. Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance. Critical Sociology 46(7-8), 1121-1139.

[15] 2020. Unravelling the Complex Nature of Security Force Defection. Global Change, Peace and Security 32(2), 135-55.

[14] 2020. The Revolutions of 1989 and Defection in Warsaw Pact States. Democracy and Security 16(2), 151-178.

[13] 2019. Violence, Resistance, and Social Transformation in Anarchist Thought and Practice. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work 38(4), 383-400.

[12] 2019. Comparing Protest Massacres. Journal of Historical Sociology 32(2), 258-274.

[11] 2019. Diverse and Alternative Economic Practice in The Trailer Park Boys Series, 2002-2018. Journal of Cultural Geography 36(3), 317-345.

[10] 2019. Mass Shootings and their Asymmetric Effect on Civilian Armament. Crime, Law and Social Change 72(4), 483-500.

[9] 2019. Tracing the State of Nature in Stephen King’s Under the Dome. Socialism and Democracy 33(1), 166-185.

[8] 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.

[7] 2018. A Configurational Analysis of 44 U.S. Mass Shootings: 1975-2015. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 42(1), 55-73.

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

[5] 2017. Antagonisms and the Discursive Sedimentation of American Gun Culture: A New Framework. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 17(2), 133-139.

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

[3] 2016. Violence Begets Violence: Why States Should Not Lethally Repress Popular Protest. International Journal of Human Rights 20(7), 893-913.

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

[1] 2014. Adverse Repression and Social Transformation: A Political Process Model. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies Volume 8(2), ISSN 2327-0071.

Other Peer Reviewed Publications

- 2024. School mass shootings in Central and Eastern Europe are on the rise. Czech Criminological Review.

- 2020. The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia: by Mark Galeotti, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2018, Xii, 344 pp., $28.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-300-18682-6. Global Crime.
- 2019. Massacres in Iran: What Happens Next? Political Violence at a Glance, December 17, 2019.
- 2013. LSEReviewofBooks: Book Review, Pedersen, David. American Value: Migrants, Money, andMeaning in El Salvador and the United States. University of Chicago Press. 2013.
- 2013. LSEReviewofBooks: Book Review, Kai Hafez. The Myth of MediaGlobalization. Polity. 2007.
- 2013. LSEReviewofBooks: Book Review, Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, Bert Klandermans. The Future of Social MovementResearch: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes. University Of Minnesota Press. 2013.
- 2013. LSEReviewofBooks: Book Review, Shannon O’Neil. Two NationsIndivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead. Oxford University Press. 2013.

- 2013. LSEReviewofBooks: Book Review, Dina Matar and Zahera Harb. Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image, and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. IB Tauris. 2013.