Scholarly Work

Stanford University Press 2006

Books

Killian, Caitlin. 2023. Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Killian, Caitlin. 2006.  North African Women in France: Gender, Culture, and Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Killian, Caitlin and Jennifer C. Olmsted. 2023. “Gendered Socio-economic Integration: Lessons from the Syria Crisis.” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development.

Chiang, Tom and Caitlin Killian. 2023. “Child Education Rights vs. Parental Preferences: A Paradox between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods.” Educational Policy.

Olmsted, Jennifer C. and Caitlin Killian. 2023. “Post-conflict Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice, Gendered Well-being, and Long-term Development.” Review of Radical Political Economics. 55(1):147-165.

Killian, Caitlin and Emma M. Thomas. 2020. “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Warnings: Policing Women’s Behavior Distorts Science.” Journal of Applied Social Science 14(1): 5-22. DOI:10.1177/1936724419898885

Killian, Caitlin and Nikki Khanna. 2019. “Beyond Color-Blind and Color-Conscious: Approaches to Racial Socialization Among Parents of Transracially Adopted Children.” Family Relations 68:260-274. DOI:10.1111/fare.12357

Killian, Caitlin. 2017. “Could There Be a Silver Lining to Zika?” Contexts 16(1): 36-41.

Killian, Caitlin and Namita N. Manohar. 2016. “Highly Skilled Immigrant Women’s Labor Market Access: A Comparison of Indians in the United States and North Africans in France.” Social Currents 3(2): 138-159.

Khanna, Nikki and Caitlin Killian. 2015. “‘We Didn’t Even Think About Adopting Domestically’: The Role of Race and Other Factors in Shaping Parents’ Decisions to Adopt Abroad.” Sociological Perspectives 58(4): 570-594.

Rosenbloom, Susan Rakosi and Caitlin Killian. 2014. “What Are They Thinking? Findings for Educators and Practitioners on Youths’ Experience and Knowledge of the HPV Vaccine.” American Journal of Sexuality Education 9:41-64.

Killian, Caitlin, Jennifer C. Olmsted, and Alexis Doyle. 2012. “Motivated Migrants: (Re)framing Arab Women’s Experiences.” Women’s Studies International Forum 35: 432-446.

Killian, Caitlin. Fall 2007/Winter 2008. “Covered Girls and Savage Boys: Representations of Muslim Youth in France.” Journal of Social and Ecological Boundaries 3(1): 69-90.

Killian, Caitlin. 2007. “From a Community of Believers to an Islam of the Heart: ‘Conspicuous’ Symbols, Muslim Practices, and the Privatization of Religion in France.” Sociology of Religion 68(3): 305-320.

Killian, Caitlin and Cathryn Johnson. 2006. “‘I’m Not an Immigrant!’: Resistance, Redefinition, and the Role of Resources in Identity Work.”  Social Psychology Quarterly 69(1): 60-80.

Killian, Caitlin. 2003. “The Other Side of the Veil: North African Women in France Respond to the Headscarf Affair.” Gender & Society 17(4): 567-590.

Killian, Caitlin and Karen A. Hegtvedt. 2003. “The Role of Parents in the Maintenance of Second Generation Vietnamese Cultural Behaviors.” Sociological Spectrum 23(2): 213-245.

Killian, Caitlin. 2002. “Culture on the Weekend: Maghrebin Women’s Adaptation in France.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 22(1/2/3): 75-105.

Hegtvedt, Karen A. and Caitlin Killian. 1999. “Fairness and Emotions: Reactions to the Process and Outcomes of Negotiations.” Social Forces 78(1): 269-302.

Book Chapter

Killian, C. 2002. “Bicultural Competence: A Means to Crime Reduction among the Children of Immigrants?” in Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime. J.D. Freilich, G. Newman, S.G. Shoham, and M. Addad. (eds). Brookfield: Ashgate Press. Pp. 121-130.

Other Publications

Killian, Caitlin and Belén Rojas Silva. Forthcoming. “Refugees” in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd ed). George Ritzer, Chris Rojek and J. Michael Ryan (eds.) Wiley.

Killian, Caitlin and Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom. 2013. “Feminist Critiques of Educational Practices.” In Sociology of Education: An A to Z Guide. Ed. James Ainsworth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Rosenbloom, Susan Rakosi and Caitlin Killian. 2013. “Feminist Critiques of Educational Research.” In Sociology of Education: An A to Z Guide. Ed. James Ainsworth. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Killian, Caitlin. 2011. “Integrative Perspectives on Acculturation.” American Psychologist 66:154-155.

Killian, Caitlin. 2002. Teaching Guide: “The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter” in Looking across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film, edited by Wendy Kolmar. Women’s Studies Quarterly 30(1&2): 297-300.

Killian, Caitlin. 2001. “Israel” in The Encyclopedia of American Immigration. James Ciment and Immanuel Ness (eds.) M.E. Sharpe. Pp. 1023-1033.

Book Review

Killian, Caitlin. 2014. Book Review of The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging. Reviews & Critical Commentary: A Forum for Research and Commentary on Europe. Council on European Studies. 

http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/the-headscarf-debates-conflicts-of-national-belonging/

Reprinted Work

Killian, Caitlin. 2017. “Bicultural Competence: A Means to Crime Reduction among the Children of Immigrants?” Ch. 8 in Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime. Joshua D. Freilich and Moshe Addad. (eds). London: Routledge.

Killian, Caitlin. 2010. “From a Community of Believers to an Islam of the Heart: ‘Conspicuous’ Symbols, Muslim Practices, and the Privatization of Religion in France.” Reprinted in Sociology of Religion: A Reader (2nd edition): Pearson Education. Pp. 36-44.

Killian, Caitlin. 2005. “The French Law Banning Religious Symbols in School and Maghrebin Women’s Views on the Muslim Headscarf.” Ethnograficheskoe Obozrenia #3.

2004.  A summary of “The Other Side of the Veil: North African Women in France Respond to the Headscarf Affair” was published by Contexts magazine (vol. 3, no. 3), a publication of the American Sociological Association.

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