Mikaila Mariel


Lemonik Arthur

I am a scholar of higher education, organizational change, and social movements. My current scholarship focuses on the movement to pass the Reproductive Privacy Act in Rhode Island IN 2019. This research, based on an oral history project developed by coauthor Jordan Banick, will produce a public oral history archive. Preliminary results have been presented at several conferences, with papers focusing on movement strategy and tactics.

My most recent book (written with Roger Clark) is an Open Educational Resources (OER) text for sociological data aalysis courses, Social Data Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches.

My prior book, Law and Justice Around the World: A Comparative Approach, was published in February 2020 by the University of California Press. You can view a webinar on Policing in Comparative Perspective, sponsored by the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association, that draws on Chapter 5 of the book, at this link.

"Metamimesis: Consultants as a Mechanism of Institutional Isomorphism in Higher Education," Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management .

"Bridging Generational Divides in the Pursuit of Political Change.” Mobilizing Ideas.

"The Relationship of Pregnancy Intentions to Breastfeeding Duration: A New Evaluation." (with Michael Seth Friedson and Allison Pope Burger). Research in the Sociology of Health Care 35, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, ed. Emerald.

"Waking Yourself Up: The Liberatory Potential of Critical University Studies." (with Scott Renshaw). Radical Teacher 108, 2017.

"How Higher Education Shapes The Workforce: A Study of Rhode Island College Graduates." (with Francis Leazes, Jr.). TheCollaborative Research Brief.

"Mapping the Network of North American Colleges and Universities: A New Approach to Empirically Derived Classifications." In Berman and Paradeise, The University Under Pressure: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, V. 46. Abstract available. For earlier work on this project, click here.

"Teaching Progress: A Critique of the Grand Narrative of Human Rights as Pedagogy for Marginalized Students" (with Robyn Linde). Radical Teacher 103, 2015.

"Resurrecting Smelser: Collective Power, Generalized Beleif, and Hegemonic Spaces." Theory in Action 2:4, 2009. Abstract available.

"Thinking Outside the Master's House: New Knowledge Movements and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines." Social Movement Studies 8:1, 2009. (Available to subscribers).

"Social Movements in Organizations." Sociology Compass 2:3, 2008.

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