PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Hurst, Allison, Vincent J. Roscigno, Anthony Jack, Monica McDermott, Debbie Warnock, Jose Munoz, Wendi Johnson, Elizabeth Lee, Colby King, David Brady, Robert D. Francis, Kevin Delaney, and Margaret Vitullo. Forthcoming. “The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working Class Inequalities.” Sociology of Education.
Roscigno, Vincent J., Elizabeth Lee, Allison Hurst, David Brady, Colby King, Kevin Delaney, Monica McDermott, Jose Munoz, Wendi Johnson, Robert D. Francis, Debbie Warnock, and Margaret Vitullo. 2023. “Mobility & Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter.” Socius 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231181859.
Francis, Robert D., Carleigh Hill, and Jenise Overmier. 2022. “The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond.” Teaching Sociology. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X221129638
Francis, Robert D. 2022. “Moving On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve their Labor Market Prospects.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 8(4): 68-86.
Francis, Robert D. 2021. “Missing Men? Precarity and Declining Labor Force Participation Among Working-Class Men.” Journal of Working-Class Studies. 6(2): 65-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v6i2.6835.
Edin, Kathryn, Timothy J. Nelson, Rachel Butler, and Robert D. Francis. 2019. “Taking Care of Mine: Can Child Support Become a Family‐Building Institution?” Journal of Family Theory & Review. 11(1): 79-91.
Edin, Kathryn, Timothy J. Nelson, Andrew Cherlin, and Robert D. Francis. 2019. “The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. 33(2): 1-19.
Francis, Robert D. 2018. “Him, Not Her: Why Working-Class White Men Reluctant About Trump Still Made Him President of the United States.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Volume 4.
Book Chapters
Francis, Robert D. ““You’re Pretty Much Stuck Where You’re At”: Job Quality, Work, and Nonwork Among Working-Class Men in the Rural U.S.” Forthcoming. In Handbook on Unemployment and Society. Victor Tan Chen, Sabina Pultz, and Ofer Sharone, editors. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Francis, Robert D. and Mary Gerhardstein. 2023. “Using Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement to Cultivate Vocational Discernment in the College Classroom.” In Emerging Stronger: Lessons from the Pandemic that Improve Pedagogical Skills. Jeffrey Chin and Michele Kozimor-King, editors.
Jones, Robert P. and Robert D. Francis. 2012. “The Black and White of Moral Values: How Attending to Race Challenges the Mythology of the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Attitudes and Behavior.” In Robin Dale Jacobson and Nancy D. Wadsworth (eds.) Faith and Race in American Political Life. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Reports
Roscigno, Vincent J. (Chair), David Brady, Kevin Delaney, Robert Francis, Allison Hurst, Anthony Jack, Wendi Johnson, Colby King, Elizabeth Lee, Monica McDermott, José A. Muñoz, Deborah Warnock, and Margaret Weigers Vitullo. “Report of the ASA Task Force on First-Generation and Working-Class People in Sociology.” Available at https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/first-gen-college-students-task-force-report.pdf.
Book Reviews
Francis, Robert D. “Gone Goose: The Remaking of an American Town in the Age of Climate Change.” Contemporary Sociology. 51(4): 304-306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061221103312r.
Francis, Robert D. 2021. “Damaske, S. (2021) The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America. Princeton University Press.” Journal of Working-Class Studies. 6(2): 146-148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v6i2.6847
Francis, Robert D. 2019. “Book Review of Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement.” Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry. 1(1): 76-83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2019.vol1.no1.07.
Francis, Robert D. 2018. “Book Review: Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Academic Life.” Teaching Sociology. 46(3): 280-282.
Francis, Robert D. 2011. “Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell’s American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us and Adam Taylor’s Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation.” The Journal of Lutheran Ethics. 11(2).
Web-Based Publications
Francis, Robert D. 2017. “White Poor, Black Poor: Untangling Structure and Culture.” Activist History Review. September 22.
Francis, Robert D. 2017. “Fatherhood in a Changing Economy.” Public Justice Review. 4(4).
Other Publications
Francis, Robert D. 2018. “Skipping Class: First-Gen, Working-Class, and Low-Income People in Sociology and Beyond.” The Sociologist.
Journalistic Articles
Francis, Robert D. 2014. “Making payroll: Nonprofits and the minimum wage.” The Christian Century. 131(22).
Francis, Robert D. 2012. “Health care up close: What else the Affordable Care Act does.” The Christian Century. 129(20): 30-34.
Francis, Robert D. 2012. “Providers as employers.” The Christian Century. 129(20): 33.
Francis, Robert D. 2009. “Pursuing the Possible: Religious voices on health care.” The Christian Century. 126(14): 10-11.
Francis, Robert D. 2007. “At the Policy Table: Religion and the US Farm Bill.” Geez. 8:13.
Francis, Robert D. 2007. “The Church is the Last Safe Haven: Evangelical Latinos and the New Sanctuary Movement.” Sojourners. September-October: 17.
Francis, Robert D. 2007. “Chorus or Cacophony?” Sojourners. September-October: 49-51.