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Faculty in Global Health

Journal Articles

  1. Gorman, Bridget K., Jen'nan G. Read, Patrick Krueger, Gender, Acculturation and Health among Mexican American Immigrants, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, vol. 51 no. 4 (2010), pp. 440-457  [abs]
  2. Read, Jen'nan G. and David Eagle, Intersecting Identities as a Source of Religious Incongruence, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Forthcoming 2011)  [abs]
  3. Read, Jen'nan G. and Bridget K. Gorman, Gender and U.S. Health Inequality, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 36 (2010), pp. 371-386  [abs]
  4. Read, Jen'nan Ghazal and Sharon Oselin, Gender and the Education-Employment Paradox in Ethnic and Religious Contexts: The Case of Arab Americans, American Sociological Review, vol. 73 no. 2 (2008), pp. 296-313, ISSN 0003-1224  [abs]
  5. Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, Faith, Fact, and Fiction: What Muslim Americans Really Mean for U.S. Democracy, Contexts, vol. 7 no. 4 (2008), pp. 39-43, ISSN 1536-5042  [abs]
  6. Gorman, Bridget K. and Jen'nan G. Read, Why Men Die Younger than Women, Geriatrics & Aging, vol. 10 no. 3 (March, 2007), pp. 179-182, ISSN 1488-8408  [abs]
  7. Read, Jen'nan Ghazal and Philip N. Cohen, One Size Fits All? Explaining U.S.-born and Immigrant Women's Employment across 12 Ethnic Groups, Social Forces, vol. 85 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1713-1734, University of North Carolina Press, ISSN 00377732 [4495005]  [abs]
  8. Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, More of a Bridge than a Gap: Gender Differences in Arab-American Political Engagement., Social Science Quarterly (Blackwell Publishing Limited), vol. 88 no. 5 (2007), pp. p1072 - 1091, ISSN 00384941 [login.aspx]  [abs]
  9. Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, Introduction: The Politics of Veiling in Comparative Perspective., Sociology of Religion, vol. 68 no. 3 (2007), pp. p231 - 236, ISSN 10694404 [login.aspx]  [abs]
  10. Read, Jen'nan G. and Bridget K. Gorman, Racial/Ethnic Differences in Hypertension and Depression among US Adult Women, Ethnicity & Disease, vol. 17 no. 2 (2007), pp. 383-390, ISSN 1049-510X  [abs]
  11. Gorman, Bridget K. and Jen'nan G. Read, Gender Disparities in Adult Health: An Examination of Three Measures of Morbidity, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 47 (July, 2006), pp. 95-110, ISSN 0022-1465  [abs]
  12. Read, Jen'nan G. and Bridget K. Gorman, Gender Inequalities in US Adult Health: The Interplay of Race and Ethnicity, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 62 no. 5 (2006), pp. 1045 - 1065, ISSN 0277-9536 [a55d9de63e87a6a508879d4efc6748bd]  [abs]
  13. Read, Jen'nan G., Michael O. Emerson, and Alvin Tarlov, Implications of Black Immigrant Health for U.S. Racial Disparities in Health, Journal of Immigrant Health, vol. 7 no. 3 (2005), pp. 205-212, ISSN 1096-4045  [abs]
  14. Read, Jen'nan G., Benjamin Amick, and Katharine M. Donato, Arab Immigrants: A New Case for Ethnicity and Health?, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 61 no. 1 (2005), pp. 77 - 82, ISSN 0277-9536 [681b83524c7ea7e056ca15726216c781]  [abs]
  15. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal and Michael O. Emerson, Racial Context of Origin, Black Immigration, and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity, Social Forces, vol. 84 (2005), pp. 183-201
  16. Read, Jen'nan G. and Michael O. Emerson, Racial Context, Black Immigration and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity., Social Forces, vol. 84 no. 1 (2005), pp. p181 - 199, ISSN 00377732 [login.aspx]  [abs]
  17. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, Cultural Influences on Immigrant Women’s Labor Force Participation: The Case of Arab Americans, International Migration Review, vol. 38 (2004), pp. 52-77
  18. Read, Jen'nan G., Family, Religion, and Work Among Arab-American Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 66 no. 4 (2004), pp. 1042-1050  [abs]
  19. Marshall, Susan E. and Jen’nan Ghazal Read, “Identity Politics among Arab-American Women, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 84 (2003), pp. 875-891
  20. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, The Sources of Gender Role Attitudes among Christian and Muslim Arab-American Women, Sociology of Religion, vol. 64 (2003), pp. 207-222
  21. Bartkowski, John P. and Jen’nan Ghazal Read, Veiled Submission: Gender, Power, and Identity among Evangelical and Muslim Women in the U.S., Qualitative Sociology, vol. 26 (2003), pp. 71-92
  22. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal, Challenging Myths of Muslim Women: The Influence of Islam on Arab-American Women’s Labor Force Participation, Muslim World, vol. 96 (2002), pp. 18-39
  23. Read, Jen’nan Ghazal and John P. Bartkowski, To Veil or Not to Veil? A Case Study of Identity Negotiation among Muslim Women Living in Austin, Texas, Gender & Society, vol. 4 (2000), pp. 395-417

Book Reviews

  1. Read, Jen'nan G., Being Arab: Ethnic and Religious Identity Among Second Generation Youth in Montreal by Paul Eid, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 114 no. 3 (2008)

Other

  1. Read, Jen'nan G., North American Islam, in Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, edited by Robert Wuthnow (2008), CQ Press, Washington, DC, ISBN 0872893235
  2. Read, Jen'nan G., The Gender Gap in Arab-American Political Engagement, in American Arabs and Political Participation, edited by Philippa Strum (2008), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, ISBN 1933549106

Book Chapters

  1. Read, Jen'nan G. and Bridget K. Gorman, Gender and Health Revisited, in The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, & Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century (2010 Forthcoming)
  2. Read, Jen'nan G., The Diversity of the New Immigrant Religious Populations, in Faith, Politics & Press in Our Perilous Times, edited by Steven Burgard (2010), pp. 101-117, Kendall/Hunt
  3. The Effects of Post-9/11 Discrimination on Arab-American Racial Identity, in From Invisibility to Visibility: The Racialization of Arab Americans Before and After September 11th, edited by N. Naber and A. Jamal (2008), Syracuse University Press, New York, NY
  4. Religion and Women's Employment Over Life Course: A Comparison of Christian and Muslim Arab Americans, in Religion, Families, and Health in the United States: New Directions for Population-Based Research, edited by R. Hummer and C.G. Ellison (2008), Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, NJ
  5. Multiple Identities among Arabs in America: A Tale of Two Congregations, in At Home and Abroad: Being and Belonging among U.S. Immigrants from Muslim Countries After September 11, edited by Stephanie Platz (2008), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY

Editorials

  1. Muslims seen as outsiders, Philadelphia Inquirer (Sept 2009)
  2. Movement in the Right Direction, Social Science Research Council Immanent Frame (June 2009)
  3. Reason to Remain Hopeful, Social Science Research Council Immanent Frame (Feb 2009)
  4. Are U.S. Muslims Un-American, Raleigh News & Obsever, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Detroit Free Press, Des Moines (November, 2008)
  5. U.S. Muslims could Swing the Vote, Philadelphia Inquirer, Raleigh News & Obsever, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October, 2008)

Reprints

  1. To Veil or Not to Veil: A Case Study of Identity Negotiation among Muslim Women Living in Austin, Texas, in Gender Through the Prism of Difference, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Micahel Messner (2008), Oxford University Press, New York, NY, ISBN 0195167643

Presented Papers

  1. Intersecting Identities as a Source of Religious Incongruence, American Sociological Association (2010)
  2. Healthy Migrants or Just Healthy Men?, Population Association of America (2010)
  3. Gender and Middle Eastern Health: A New Immigrant Case (2009) (Population Association of America.)
  4. Religion and Identity Politics among Blacks and Whites (2009) (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.)
  5. The Changing Face of Americans: Gender and the Health Policy Implications of, American Sociological Association (2008)
  6. Presider and chair, Theoretical and Empirical Linkages between Physical and Mental Health (2006) (annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, Montreal.)
  7. Presider and chair, Gender Differentials in Schooling and Occupations (2006) (annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles.)
  8. Reproducing Inequality? Female Education in Arab-American Families (2005) (annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, Philadelphia.)
  9. Bridge or Barrier? Religious Identity and the Civic Incorporation of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans (2005) (annual meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Philadelphia.)