Faculty Research

Our faculty are engaged in many different kinds of research, from studying health during the transition to adulthood, to drug and substance abuse among college students, to histories of pioneer women.

Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Ph.D.

Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Ph.D., The University of Akron, 2013  
Specialization: Gender, Clinical Sociology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 

Professor Jauk-Ajamie is a certified clinical sociologist. She researches the intersections of gender inequality, reproductive justice and sustainability in the criminal legal system which she explores with qualitative and community-engaged methodologies. She is also interested in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning with a focus on feminist pedagogies and experiential learning.  


Stacey Nofziger Ph.D.

Stacey Nofziger Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999
Specialization: Criminology, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Professor Nofziger’s research uses control theories in criminology to understand topics such as juvenile violence and victimization, the role of parenting in preventing deviant and criminal behavior, and bullying. She also examines student well-being, and the impact of experiential learning in classes to help students develop career-ready skills.  


Juan Xi Ph.D.

Juan Xi Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006
Specialization: Medicine and Mental Health

Professor Xi’s research interests include medical sociology, migration and immigrants, and quantitative methods.  Her current projects examine the role of structure covariates in the relationship between immigrants’ English ability and earnings by testing structure-individual cross level mediation and moderation effects.


Lia Chervenak Wiley, Ph.D.

Lia Chervenak Wiley, Ph.D., The University of Akron, 2014 
Specialization: Criminology; Sociology of Deviant Behavior; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 

Professor Wiley’s research interests include life-course criminology, drug and alcohol use and abuse, and violence and victimization. She is also interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning with a focus on first-generation college students and active learning.  

Recent Publications

Rebecca Erickson, Ph.D.

Marci D. Cottingham, Rebecca J. Erickson, and  Matthew T. Lee (Eds). 2023. Transcending Crisis Carework, Emotions and Human Flourishing. Routledge. Series on Health and Social Care. 
 
Rebecca J. Erickson and Marci D. Cottingham. 2022. “Emotion Development in Context.” Pp. 373-386 in The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development, edited by Daniel Dukes, Eric Walle, and Andrea C. Samson. London: Oxford University Press. 
 
Nolan, Megan T., James M. Diefendorff, Rebecca  J. Erickson and Matthew T. Lee. 2022. “Perceived Compassion Climate: Antecedents,  
Correlates and Consequences for Well-being.”  Journal of Vocational Behavior 133. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103688

Grant, Don S., Beth M. Duckles, Christine Soriea Sheikh, and Rebecca J. Erickson. (Forthcoming in 2016). “Affirming Selves through Styles of Care: Revisiting Goffman and the Special Dilemma of Hospital Workers.” Social Problems.

Marci D. Cottingham, Rebecca J. Erickson, and James M. Diefendorff. (2015). “Examining Men’s Status Shield: How Gender Frames the Emotional Capital and Occupational Outcomes of Nurses.” Sex Roles 72(April):377-389. DOI 10.1007/s11199-014-0419-z

Rebecca J. Erickson and Marci D. Cottingham. (2014) “Families and Emotion.” Pp. 359-383 in Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II, edited by Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner. New York: Springer.

Gabriel, Allison S., Rebecca J. Erickson, James M. Diefendorff, and Gail E. Bromley. (2013). “A Multilevel Analysis of the Relationships between the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index and Nursing Outcomes.” Research in Nursing and Health 36:567-581.

Marci Cottingham, Rebecca J. Erickson, James M. Diefendorff, and Gail E. Bromley. (2013) “The Effect of Manager Exclusion on Turnover Intention and Quality of Care.” Western Journal of Nursing Research. 35(88): 970-985.  DOI: 10.1177/0193945913483880

Rebecca J. Erickson and Clare L. Stacey. (2012) “Nurturing Mind and Body: Emotion Management in the Context of Caring Work.” Pp. 175-196 in Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work, edited by Alicia A. Grandey, James M. Diefendorff, and Deborah E. Rupp. NY: Psychology Press/Routledge.


Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Ph.D.

Everhardt, Sharon, Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Stephen Carmody, and Brenda Gill. 2024. Gardens Behind Bars - Horticulture in Incarcerated Settings as Clinical and Applied Sociology. New York, London: Springer - Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice, Series

Jauk-Ajamie, Daniela. 2023. “Global Governance and Climate Stress of Incarcerated Women: The Case Of The U.S.” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 47(2): 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2022.2146731. Referenced in Open Letter from Women Beyond Walls addressed to all UN High-Level Forums on women’s rights, July 17, 2023, 220+ signatories 

DelSesto, Matthew, Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, Elizabeth Lara, and Shea Zwerver, S. 2023. “An Introduction to Socio-Ecological Initiatives in Prisons, Jails, And Communities Impacted by Incarceration.” Pp. 186-205 in Handbook of the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections & Sentencing, edited by Danielle Rudes, Gaylene Armstrong, Kimberly Kras, TaLisa Carter. London and Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032449906.

Jauk-Ajamie, Daniela. 2023. “Women And Girls Behind Bars in The United States: A Hidden And Vulnerable Population in Pandemic Times” Pp. 245-261 in Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community, edited by M. Seedat and Z. Toyo, London: Routledge. ebook ISBN 9781003267133

Jauk-Ajamie, Daniela; Sharon Everhardt, Christie Caruana, Brenda Gill. 2022. “Bourdieu in the Prison Garden: Why We Need Sociological Theory, Sociological Practice, and More Gardens for Incarcerated Women.” Journal for Applied Social Sciences 17(1): 92-110. https://doi.org/10.1177/19367244221129185

Jauk-Ajamie, Daniela and Andria Blackwood. 2022. “’I Grow Every Day, Like Plants.’ An Evaluation of a Gardening Program for Women in a Residential Community Corrections Setting.” Women and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2022.2053031

Jauk, Daniela, Sabine Klinger, and Nicole Pruckermayr. 2020. “Process Not Product: Rethinking Feminist Teaching Across Disciplines With Autoethnographic Trialogues.” Pp 73–90 in Ethnography in Higher Education, edited by C. Wieser and A. Pilch-Ortega,A. Berlin: Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-30381-5_5 I


Stacey Nofziger, Ph.D.

Nofziger, Stacey and Taylor Johnson. 2020. Revisiting the Concept of Stability in the General Theory of Crime. Crime & Delinquency, 66 (6–7), 739-769. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128719890264

Nofziger, Stacey, Rachel E. Stein, and Nicole L. Rosen. “Comparing Children’s and Caseworker’s Reports of Physical Violence.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 34 (16): 3516-3541. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516670880

Rosen, Nicole L., and Stacey Nofziger. 2019. “Boys, Bullying, and Gender Roles: How Hegemonic Masculinity Shapes Bullying Behavior.” Gender Issues. 36: 295-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-018-9226-0

2005 Nofziger, Stacey and Don Kurtz. "Violent Lives: A Lifestyle Model linking Exposure to Violence to Juvenile Violent Offending." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 42 (1): 3-26.

2006 Nofziger, Stacey and Rachel E. Stein. "To Tell or Not to Tell: Lifestyle Impacts on Whether Adolescents Tell about Violent Victimization." Violence and Victims, Volume 21, Number 3 (June 2006).

2006 Nofziger, Stacey and Hye-ryeon Lee. “Differential Associations and Daily Smoking of Adolescents: The Importance of Same Sex Models.” Youth & Society 37(4): 453-478.

2008 Nofziger, Stacey. “The ‘Cause’ of Low Self-Control: The Influence of Maternal Self-Control.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 45(2): 191-224

2008 Nofziger, Stacey. “Deviant Lifestyles and Violent Victimization at School.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 


Juan Xi, Ph.D.

Xi, Juan. Sean-Shong Hwang, and Yue Cao. 2015 “Risk Information Sharing: An Empirical Study on Risk Perception and Depressive Symptoms among Those Displaced by the Three Forges Project.” Pp 56-68. In Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement edited by Irge Satiroglu and Narae Choi. New York, NY: Routledge

Xi, Juan, Baffour Takyi, and Enoch Lamptey. 2015. “Are Recent Immigrants Bigger than Earlier Ones at Their Arrival? Cohort Variation in Initial BMI among US Immigrants, 1989-2010.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 17:1854-62.

Cao, Yue, Nicole DiPiro, Juan Xi, and James S. Krause. 2014. “Unmet Expectations of Adjustment and Depressive Symptoms among People with Chronic Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.” Rehabilitation Psychology. 59 (3) 313-320.

Wasserman, Jason, Richard Suminski, Juan Xi, Carlene Mayfield, Alan Glaros, and Richard Magie. 2014. “A Multi-level Analysis Showing Associations between School Neighborhood and Child Body Mass Index.” International Journal of Obesity.38:912-18.

Xi, Juan. 2014. “Migration, Stress, and Health.” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, edited by William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah. Oxford, England: Blackwill Publishing Ltd.

Elman, Cheryl, Linda Wray, and Juan Xi. 2013. “Fundamental Resource Dis/advantages, Youth Health and Adult Educational Outcomes.” Social Science Research 43: 108-126.

Xi, Juan.2013. “English Fluency of the U.S. Immigrants: Assimilation Effects, Cohort Variations, and Periodical Changes.” Social Science Research 42:1109-1121.

Xi, Juan, Sean-Shong Hwang, and Patricia Drentea. 2013. “Experiencing a Forced Relocation at Different Life Stages: the Effects of China’s Three-Gorges Project-Induced Relocation on Depression” Society and Mental Health. 3: 69-76.

Cao,Yue, Sean-Shong Hwang, and Juan Xi. 2012. “Project-Induced Displacement, Secondary Stressors, and Health.” Social Science and Medicine 72:1130-38.