Publications

Velasco, Kristopher and Jeffrey Swindle. Forthcoming. “Assembling God’s ‘Last Best Hope’: The Expanding Reach of the World Congress of Families,” Mobilization: An International Quarterly. Dataset.

Weitzman, Abigail, Jeffrey Swindle, and Gilbert Brenes Camacho. 2024. “Gendered Family Violence among Migrants Seeking International Protection: A Life Course Perspective,” Social Forces 102(3):1004–1025.

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2023. “Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Mass Media and People’s Moral Declarations about Men’s Violence against Women,” American Sociological Review 88(4):742-779. Replication Package. Preprint.

2020 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Human Rights.

2020 Honorable Mention for the Richard A. Peterson Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Culture Section.

2020 Lester P. Monts Award for Most Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper on Africa, University of Michigan, African Studies Center.

2019 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Communication Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section.

2019 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Canadian Sociological Association, Sociology of Development Research Cluster.

2019 Winner of the Student Paper Competition, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Global Division. 

Weitzman, Abigail, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Arodys Robles, Matthew Blanton, Jeffrey Swindle, and Katarina Huss. 2023. “Costa Rica as a Destination for Migrants in Need of International Protection: IMR Country Report,” International Migration Review 57(1):436–448. PubMed.

Weitzman, Abigail, Katarina Huss, Matthew Blanton, Jeffrey Swindle, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, and Arodys Robles. 2023. “International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America,” Journal of Family Issues 45(3):531-554.

Thornton, Arland, Jeffrey Swindle, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Nathalie Williams, and Christina Hughes. 2022. “Developmental Idealism and Migration: Theorizing their Relationship and an Empirical Example from Nepal,” Migration and Development 11(3):818-851. PubMed. Preprint.

Swindle, Jeffrey, Shawn Dorius, and Attila Melegh. 2020. “The Mental Map of National Hierarchy in Europe,” International Journal of Sociology 50(3):179-200. Preprint.

Williams, Nathalie E., Christina Hughes, Prem Bhandari, Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Jeffrey Swindle. 2020. “When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal,” International Migration Review 54(4):964-991. PubMed.

Williams, Nathalie E., Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, Loritta Chan, Arland Thornton, and Cathy Sun. 2020. “Ethno-Caste Influences on Migration Rates and Destinations,” World Development 130:104912. PubMed.

Thornton, Arland, Prem Bhandari, Jeffrey Swindle, Nathalie Williams, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, and Christina Hughes. 2020. “Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography,” Population Research and Policy Review 39(4):643-670. PubMed.

Hughes, Christina, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Arland Thornton, and Nathalie Williams. 2020. “Family Obligation Attitudes, Gender, and Migration,” International Journal of Sociology 50(4):237-264. PubMed.

Dorius, Shawn and Jeffrey Swindle. 2019. “Developmental Idealism in Internet Search Data,” Sociology of Development 5(3):286-313. Preprint.

Thornton, Arland, Nathalie E. Williams, Prem Bhandari, Linda Young-DeMarco, Cathy Sun, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration,” Demography 56(1):75–102. PubMed.

Muir, Jonathan A., David Braudt, Jeffrey Swindle, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown. 2018. “Cultural Antecedents to Community: An Evaluation of Community Experience in the United States, Thailand, and Vietnam,” City and Community 17(2):485-503. PubMed.

Thornton, Arland, Shawn Dorius, Jeffrey Swindle, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel. 2017. “Middle Eastern Beliefs about the Causal Linkages of Development to Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights,” Sociology of Development 3(1):70-94. Preprint.

Thornton, Arland, Shawn Dorius, and Jeffrey Swindle. 2015. “Developmental Idealism: The Cultural Foundations of World Development Programs,” Sociology of Development 1(2):277-320. PubMed. 

Newspaper Articles, Book Reviews, and Encyclopedia Articles

Swindle, Jeffrey and Matthew Blanton. “El Salvador’s Migration Success Story Doesn’t Add Up,” Boston Globe, August 1. Replication Package.

Adapted version for Salvadoran audience: Swindle, Jeffrey and Matthew Blanton. “La Narrativa Migratoria de Bukele no Está Respaldada por los Datos.” El Diario de Hoy, August 5

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2023. “Review of ‘The Logic of Compressed Modernity’  by Chang Kyung-Sup,” Social Forces 102(1):e11.

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2014. “Review: ‘Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture’  by Erez Aidan and Jean-Baptiste Michel,” Cultural Conversations: Student Newsletter for the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association 3:1.

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2013. “Review: ‘Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities’  by Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, and Alan Greig,” International Sociology 28(5):561-563. pdf.

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2013. “Review: ‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty’  by Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 14(2):312-314. pdf.

Swindle, Jeffrey. 2011. “Development Accountability,” and “Feminization of Poverty,” Pp. 248-250, and 347-348 in Encyclopedia of Global Justice, edited by D. K. Chatterjee. New York: Springer.