Sumerau, J.E., TehQuin Forbes, Eric Anthony Grollman, and Lain A.B. Mathers. 2020. “Constructing Allyship and the Persistence of Inequality.” Social Problems.
Sumerau, J.E. 2020. “A tale of three spectrums: Deviating from normative treatments of sex and gender.” Deviant Behavior.
Barringer, Mandi, David Gay, and J.E. Sumerau. 2020. “Generational Variations in Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion: Contextualizing the Role of Religion.” Social Currents.
Sumerau, J.E. 2020. “Expanding Transgender Studies in Sociology.” Sociological Inquiry 90(2): 217-225.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Older women’s sexual health: Gaps and Possibilities.” Women’s Health 15: 1-7.
Lampe, Nik, James Cavendish, and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Producing an LGBT Religious Organizational Identity: The Case of Dignity.” Qualitative Report 24(9): 2164-2177.
Lampe, Nik, Shannon Carter, and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Continuity and Change in Gender Frames: The case of Transgender Reproduction.” Gender & Society.
Donley, Amy and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Living with Diabetes in a Historically Black Community: Insights from residents.” PLAID: People Living with and Inspired by Diabetes 5(1): 36-44.
Moon, Dawne, Theresa Tobin, and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Alpha, Omega and the Letters in Between: LGBTQI Conservative Christian efforts to rethink Gender.” Gender & Society.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers, and Dawne Moon. 2019. “Foreclosing Fluidity at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Normativities.” Symbolic Interaction.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H., Alan Chan, Jordan Miller, and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Illness Management in Older LGBT Couples.” Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine https://doi.org/10.1177/2333721418822865.
Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Reframing Health and Illness: A Collaborative Autoethnography on the Experience of Health Transformations in the Life Course.” Sociology of Health and Illness.
Simula, Brandy L. and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “The use of gender in the interpretation of BDSM.” Sexualities 22(3): 452-477.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers, and Nik Lampe. 2019. “Learning from the religious experiences of Bi+ Trans people.” Symbolic Interaction 42(2): 179-201.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2019. “Exploring Relationship Satisfaction in Older Adults with Diabetes using Descriptive Epidemiology.” PLAID: People Living with and Inspired by Diabetes 4(1): 8-18.
Harder, Brittany and J.E. Sumerau. 2018. “Understanding Gender as a Fundamental Cause of Health: Simultaneous Linear Relationships between Gender, Mental Health, and Physical Health over time.” Sociological Spectrum 38(6): 387-405.
Mathers, Lain A.B., J. Edward Sumerau and Koji Ueno. 2018. ““This isn’t just another gay group”: Privileging Heterosexuality in a mixed-sexuality LGBTQ Advocacy Group.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 47(6): 834-864.
Sumerau, J.E., Harry Barbee, Victoria Eaton, and Lain A.B. Mathers. 2018. “Exploring the experiences of heterosexual and asexual transgender people.” Social Sciences 7(162). DOI: 10.3390/socsci7090162.
Mathers, Lain A.B., J.E. Sumerau, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “The limits of homonormativity: Constructions of Bisexual and Transgender People in the Post-gay era.” Sociological Perspectives.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. “Incorporating Transgender Experience Toward a More Inclusive Gender Lens in the Sociology of Religion.” Sociology of Religion 79(4): 425-448.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2018. “It’s all done with mirrors: Neurological and Sociological Integration in the case of limb transplants.” Clinical and Translational Neuroscience 1-5.
Cragun, Ryan T., J.E. Sumerau, and Kim Abunuwara. 2018. “Complicating Marginalization: The Case of Mormon and Nonreligious College Students in a Predominantly Mormon Context.” Journal of Beliefs and Values 39(3): 317-329.
Sumerau, J.E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Harry Barbee. 2018. “This incredible monster was always in the way: The moral career of a sexual sinner in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Qualitative Report 23(3): 662-676.
Sumerau, J.E. and Eric Anthony Grollman. 2018. “Obscuring Oppression: Racism, Cissexism, and the Persistence of Social Inequality.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4(3): 322-337.
Steele, Sarah, Megan Collier, and J.E. Sumerau. 2018. “Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Contact with Police in Chicago: Disparities Across Sexuality, Race, and Socioeconomic Status.” Social Currents 4(5): 328-349.
McCabe, Katherine and J.E. Sumerau. 2018. “Reproduction Vocabularies of Motive among Cisgender Women in College.” Sex Roles 78(5-6): 352-366.
Sumerau, J.E., Eric Anthony Grollman, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2018. ““Oh my God, I sound like a horrible person”: Generic Processes in the Conditional Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity.” Symbolic Interaction 41(1): 62-82.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. “Aging Partners Managing Chronic Illness Together: Introducing the Content Collection.” Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine.
Barringer, M.N., J.E. Sumerau, and David Gay. 2017. “Examining differences in identity disclosure between monosexuals and bisexuals.” Sociological Spectrum.
Nowakowski, A.C.H., K.E. Barningham, C.D. Buford, M. Laguerre, and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. ““That pain is genuine to them”: Provider Perspectives on Chronic Pain in University Student Populations.” The Qualitative Report 22(7): 1880-1895.
Nowakowski, A.C.H., K.E. Barningham, C.D. Buford, M. Laguerre, and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. ““A Tricky One”: Barriers to Non-Opoid Pain Management in University Health Care.” Florida Public Health Review 14: 60-66.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. “Managing Chronic Illness Together.” Sociology Compass 11:e12466.
Sumerau, J. Edward. 2017. ““Some of us are good, God-fearing folks”: Justifying Religious Participation in an LGBT Christian Church.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 46(1): 3-29.
Cragun, Ryan T. and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. “Losing Manhood like a Man: A collaborative autoethnographic examination of masculinities and the experience of a vasectomy.” Men and Masculinities 20(1): 98-116.
Sumerau, J.E., Ryan T. Cragun and Trina Smith. 2017. “Men never cry:” Representing Mormon Manhood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Sociological Focus 50(3): 213-227.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. “Health disparities in Nonreligious and Religious older adults in the United States: A descriptive epidemiology of 16 common chronic conditions.” Secularism and Nonreligion 6(4): 1-15.
Cragun, Ryan T. and J.E. Sumerau. 2017. “No one expects a transgender Jew: Religious, sexual and gendered intersections in the evaluation of religious and nonreligious others.” Secularism and Nonreligion 6(1): 1-16.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers, Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2017. “Helping Quantitative Sociology Come out of the Closet.” Sexualities 20(5-6): 644-656..
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2016. “A descriptive epidemiology of sexual behavior and interest in older adults with diabetes.” PLAID: People Living with and Inspired by Diabetes 2(2): 18-28.
Sumerau, J.E., Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. “An Interactionist Approach to the Social Construction of Deities.” Symbolic Interaction 39(4): 577-594.
Sumerau, J.E. and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. ““I think some people need religion”: The Social Construction of Nonreligious Moral Identities.” Sociology of Religion 77(4): 386-407.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. ““I found God in the glory hole”: The Moral Career of a Gay Christian.” Sociological Inquiry 86(4): 618-640.
Cragun, Ryan T., J.E. Sumerau, Victoria T. Blyde, Marcus Mann, and Joseph T. Hammer. 2016. “Perceived marginalization, educational contexts, and (non)religious educational experience.” Journal of College and Character 17(4): 241-254.
Sumerau, J.E. 2016. ““I’m just not sure about their values”: LGBT Christians talk about non-believers.” Secularism and Nonreligion 5(8): 1-12.
Sumerau, J.E., Ryan T. Cragun, and Lain A.B. Mathers. 2016. “Contemporary Religion and the Cisgendering of Reality.” Social Currents 3(3): 293-311.
Cragun, Deborah, Ryan T. Cragun, Brian Nathan, J.E. Sumerau, and Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski. 2016. “Do religiosity and spirituality really matter for social, mental and physical health? A tale of two samples.” Sociological Spectrum 36(6): 359-377.
Sumerau, J.E., Lain A.B. Mathers and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. “I just can’t put my finger on it”: A research report on the nonexistence and meaninglessness of sin within the Social Sciences.” The Qualitative Report 21(6): 1132-1144.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H., J.E. Sumerau, and Lain A.B. Mathers. 2016. “Building a bright future for diabetes care and management by writing where it hurts.” PLAID: People Living with and Inspired by Diabetes 2(1): 64-67.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H., Katelyn Y. Graves, and J.E. Sumerau. 2016. “Mediation Analysis of relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life in older adults.” Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 14:46.
Thompson, Amanda Bartenbaker, Deborah Cragun, J.E. Sumerau, Ryan T. Cragun, Vanessa De Gifis and Angela Trepanier. 2016. ““Be prepared if I bring it up”: Patients’ perceptions of the utility of religious and spiritual discussion during genetic counseling.” Journal of Genetic Counseling 25(5): 945-956.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H., J.E. Sumerau and Lain A.B. Mathers. 2016. “None of the above: Strategies for Inclusive Teaching with “Representative” data.” Teaching Sociology 44(2): 96-105.
J.E. Sumerau and Deborah Cragun. 2016. “Frames of Reference: Applying Sociology in Interdisciplinary Medical Settings.” Journal of Applied Social Science 10(2): 113-118.
Sumerau, J.E. and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. ““How low can humans plunge”: Facilitating Moral Opposition in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Qualitative Sociology Review 12(1): 42-59.
Cragun, Ryan T. and J.E. Sumerau. 2015. “God may save your life, but you have to find your own keys: Religious attributions, secular attributions, and religious priming.” Archive for the Psychology of Religion 37: 321-342.
Cragun, Ryan T., J. Edward Sumerau, and Emily Williams. 2015. “From Sodomy to Sympathy”: LDS Elites’ Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(2): 291-310.
Cragun, Ryan T. and J. Edward Sumerau. 2015. “The Last Bastion of Sexual and Gender Prejudice? Sexualities, Race, Gender, Religion, and Spirituality in the Examination of Prejudice toward Sexual and Gender Minorities.” Journal of Sex Research 52(7): 821-834.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. 2015. “Should we talk about the pain: Personalizing Sociology in the Medical Sociology Classroom.” Teaching Sociology 43(4): 290-300.
Sumerau, J. Edward, Irene Padavic, and Douglas P. Schrock. 2015. ““Little girls unwilling to do what’s best for them”: Resurrecting Patriarchy in an LGBT Christian Church.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 44(3): 306-334.
Sumerau, J. Edward and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. ““Don’t push your immorals on me”: Encouraging Anti-porn Advocacy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Sexualities 18(1/2): 57-79.
Sumerau, J. Edward and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “The Hallmarks of Righteous Women: Gendered Background Expectations in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 76(1): 49-71.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J. Edward Sumerau. 2015. “Swell Foundations: Gender, Fundamental Social Causes and Chronic Inflammation.” Sociological Spectrum 35: 161-178.
Sumerau, J. Edward and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. ““Avoid that pornographic playground”: Teaching Pornographic Abstinence in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Critical Research on Religion 3(2): 168-188.
Sumerau, J. Edward, Mandi N. Barringer, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. ““I don’t need a shotgun, just a look”: Representing Manhood in Secular and Religious Magazines.” Men and Masculinities 18(5): 581-605.
Cragun, Ryan T. and J. Edward Sumerau. 2014. “Men who hold more egalitarian attitudes toward women working outside the home in the US: Who are they?” The Human Prospect: A Neohumanist Perspective 4(1): 10-24.
Sumerau, J. Edward and Ryan T. Cragun. 2014. ““Why would our Heavenly Father do that to anyone”: Oppressive Othering through Sexual Classification Schemes in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Symbolic Interaction 37(3): 331-352.
Sumerau, J. Edward. 2012. “Mobilizing Race, Class, and Gender Discourses in a Metropolitan Community Church.” Race, Gender, and Class 19(3-4): 93-112.
Sumerau, J. Edward. 2012. ““That’s what men are supposed to do”: Compensatory Manhood Acts in an LGBT Christian Church.” Gender & Society 26: 461-487. (Reprinted in The Gendered Society Reader, 5th Edition, edited by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, Oxford University Press.)
Book Chapters in Edited Volumes:
Sumerau, J.E. 2017. “I see monsters: The role of rape in my personal, professional, and political life.” In Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Conducting Deeply Personal Research edited by Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski and J.E. Sumerau. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Publishing Group.
Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H. and J.E. Sumerau. Forthcoming 2018. “Gender, Arthritis, and Feelings of Sexual Obligation in Older Adults.” Invited for inclusion in an edited anthology on Women and Inequality in the 21st Century.
Sumerau, J. and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “Trans-forming Mormonism: Transgender Perspectives on Priesthood, Ordination, and Gender.” In Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism edited by Gordon Shepherd, Lavina Fielding Anderson, and Gary Shepherd. Kofford Books.
Sumerau, J. and Sarah L. Jirek. 2015. “Post-apocalyptic Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Firefly.” In Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-apocalyptic TV and Film. New York: Palgrave.
Schrock, Douglas P., J. Edward Sumerau, and Koji Ueno. 2014. “Sexualities.” In The Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality edited by Jane D. McLeod, Edward J. Lawler, and Michael L. Schwalbe. New York, New York: Springer.
Sumerau, J. Edward. 2013. ““Somewhere Between Evangelical and Queer”: Sexual-Religious Identity Work in an LGBT Christian Church.” In Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: Contemporary Readings, edited by Staci Newmahr and Tom Weinberg. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sumerau, J. Edward, Douglas P. Schrock, and Teri Jo Reese. 2013. “Transsexuals’ Gendered Presentations.” In Life as Performance: A Dramaturgical Handbook. Edited by Charles Edgley. Ashgate.
Sumerau, J. Edward and Douglas P. Schrock. 2011. ““It’s Important to Show your Colors”: Counter-Heteronormative Embodiment in a Metropolitan Community Church.” In Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press.