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Books
[Under Contract].  The Global Pigeon.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press ("Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries" Series).


Peer-Reviewed Articles
2008.  "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals."  Social Problems 55(1): 72-94.  PDF

2007.  "Animal Practices, Ethnicity and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers of Berlin."  American Sociological Review 72(6): 874-894. PDF

2007.  “Animal Archeology: Domestic Pigeons and the Nature-Culture Dialectic.”  Qualitative Sociology Review 3(1): 74-95. 

2004. “Religion, Rationality, and Experience:  A Response to the New Rational Choice Theory of Religion.”  Sociological Theory 22(1): 190-211 (second author:  Douglas Porpora).   PDF

2003.  “Tracing the Profile of Animal Rights Supporters.”  Society and Animals 11(3): 245-263.  


Review Essays
2009.  “Meaning and Morality in Everyday Life: Beyond ‘The Social Construction of…’” Sociological Forum 24(1): Forthcoming.

2008.  “Urban Renewal.”  Entry in The Encyclopedia of Social Problems.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2005.  “Our Animals, Ourselves?  Chipping Away the Human-Animal Divide.”  Sociological Forum 20 (4): 651-660.   


Miscellaneous Publications
2008.  Book Review of “Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place” by Gabriella Modan.  British Journal of Sociology 59(4): Forthcoming.

2007.  “Urban Ethnography:  Syllabus and Teaching Supplement.”  Pp. 40-43 in Teaching Qualitative Methods.  Washington, DC:  American Sociological Association.

2004.  Book Review of “Moral, Believing Animals:  Human Personhood and Culture” by Christian Smith.  Contemporary Sociology 33 (6): 677-678.  

2003. “Sustainable Transportation as Freedom.”  Proceedings of the Pace University Urban Ecology Conference.