Peer-Reviewed Publications

Message Received: Asian Americans’ Racial, Ethnic, and National Identity Centrality Before and After the 2016 Election
Many different external factors shape Asian American identity. However, the effect of political elections on racial, ethnic, and …
Allan Farrell, Raul S. Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, Sharan Kaur Mehta
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Becoming (Asian) American? Inter-Ethnic Differences in Racial, Ethnic, and American Identities for Asian American Adults
Asian Americans' incorporation into American society is structured by interactions with a racial hierarchy that presents greater …
Raul Casarez, Allan Farrell, Jenifer L. Bratter, Xiaorui Zhang, Sharan Kaur Mehta
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Fertilizing Morality: How Religiosity and Orientations Towards Science Shape the Morality, Immorality, and Amorality of Reproductive Technologies
Scientific innovations continue to advance the possibilities of human reproduction, raising important empirical and ethical questions. …
Esther Chan, Sharan Kaur Mehta
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"There's something very wrong with the system in this country": Multiracial Organizations and Their Responses to Racial Marginalization
Multiracial organizing since the 1980s has centered around the need to define and make visible the term multiracial (e.g., U.S. …
Jenifer Bratter, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Raul S. Casarez, Xiaorui Zhang, Michael Carroll
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'God Sees No Color' So Why Should I? How White Christians Produce Divinized Colorblindness
Special issue in Sociologial Inquiry on “The Cultural and the Racial: Stitching Together the Sociologies of Race/Racism/Ethnicity …
Sharan Kaur Mehta, Rachel C. Schneider, Elaine Howard Ecklund
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Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980-2018
Racially mixed children are a rapidly expanding segment of American families, signaling the ongoing blurring of racial boundaries. Most …
Jenifer Bratter, Raul Casarez, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Xiaorui Zhang, Michael Carroll
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Polarized Scientists? Exploring Political Differences about Religion and Science among U.S. Biologists and Physicists
From the Texas textbook debate to the March for Science, visible displays of activism illuminate how deeply politicized the …
Sharan Kaur Mehta, Robert A. Thomson Jr, Elaine Howard Ecklund
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"Doing Gender" and "Doing Religion" in Science: A Cross-National Examination
Women tend to be both underrepresented in science and overrepresented in organized religion, yet the connection between these two …
Robert A. Thomson Jr, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Elaine Howard Ecklund
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Can Religiosity Be Explained by 'Brain Wiring'? An Analysis of US Adults' Opinions
Studies examining how religion shapes individuals’ attitudes about science have focused heavily on a narrow range of topics, such as …
Sharan Kaur Mehta, Christopher P. Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund
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A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and A Riff
John Evans’s new book Morals Not Knowledge pushes scholars to rethink contemporary debates about religion and science by moving past …
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Daniel Bolger
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