• Gender Studies
• Law and Punishment
• Political Sociology
• European Studies
• Ethnographic Methods

2022 Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. (University of California Press).
Received the 2023 ASA Sociology of Law Book Award, Honorable Mention
Finalist, 2023 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award2012 The Sociology Project: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination.
Co-editor and co-author with NYU colleagues (Pearson).

2010 Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire.
(University of California Press).
Received the 2011 ASA Award for Best Book in Crime, Law, and Deviance.

Received the 2004 ASA Award for Best Book in Political Sociology.
Received the 2003 ASA Award for Best Book in Sex and Gender.

2000 Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern
World. Michael Burawoy et al (University of California Press).

2003 Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global
Context. Edited with Lisa Pollard (Routledge).

2002 Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary.
(University of California Press).

2022 “Child Support and Deadbeat States.” The South Atlantic Quarterly, October 2022.

2018 “Incarcerated Fatherhood: The Entanglements of Child Support Debt and Mass Imprisonment.” American Journal of Sociology. Summer 2018. Received the 2019 Gould Award for the Best Article published in the American Journal of Sociology in the last two years.

2016 “Prisons of the Past: Penal Nationalism and the Politics of Punishment in Central Europe.” Punishment and Society.

2013 “Motherhood as Punishment: The Case of Parenting in Prison.” Signs, Fall 2013.

2010 “Working through Mass Incarceration: Gender and the Politics of Prison Labor from East to West.” Signs, Fall 2010.

2005 “Minimizing Vulnerability: Selective Interdependence after Welfare Reform” (with Robin Rogers-Dillon). Qualitative Sociology.

2004 “Gender, Welfare, and States of Punishment.” Social Politics, 11: 3.

2003 “Married Fathers and Caring Daddies: Welfare Reform and the Discursive Politics of Paternity” (with Miranda March). Social Problems, Vol. 50, No.4.

2002 “East European Women Since the Collapse of State Socialism.” Contexts, 1: 3.

2000 “Feminist State Theory: Applications to Jurisprudence, Criminology, and the Welfare State.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26.

2000 “Building the Hungarian Welfare Society, 1948-1968.” Social Politics, 7: 2.

1999 “Structure and Culture in Feminist Accounts of the Welfare State.”Contemporanea (Italian Historical Review), December, 1999.

1998 “Engendering the Welfare State: A Review Article.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 40, No. 4.

1998 “The Creation of a Discretionary Welfare State: Professionalization and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary.” Journal of Social Science, Vol.2, No.1.

1997 “But We Are Still Mothers: Gender and the Construction of Need in Postsocialist Hungary.” Social Politics, Vol. 4, No. 2.

1996 “Homeboys, Babies, Men in Suits: The State and the Reproduction of Male Dominance.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 5.

1994 “From Proud Worker to Good Mother: Gender, the State, and Regime Change in Hungary.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3.