Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Adams-Fuller, T.M., Ahlquist, J., Grumbach, J., Starman, T.E. 2025. “Wage Theft and Collective Action among Frontline Workers.” Labor Studies Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X241313255

Starman, T.E. 2025. “Looking at God, Looking at America: Examining the Relationship Between Beliefs about God and Support for Social Movements and Government Policies.” Journal of Religion and Society, vol 26(1).

Adams-Fuller, T.M., Afework, B., Browne, N., Cole-Smith, B., Green, R., Kurban, H., Mosquera, D., Starman, T.E., Swinton, O., Viceisza, A. "Barriers to Building Wealth among Black High-Income Earners." Review of Black Political Economy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446251331616

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

Starman, T.E. 2024. “Horace R. Cayton,” In M.C. Jipguep-Akhtar and N. Khan (Ed.), Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought. Routledge.

Jipguep-Akhtar, M.C. & Starman, T.E. 2024. “Kehinde Andrews,” In M.C. Jipguep-Akhtar and N. Khan (Ed.), Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought. Routledge.

Cummings, J.E. and Starman, T.E. “Race and Physical Health.” 2025. In G. Ritzer, C. Rojek, and J.M. Ryan (Eds.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd ed.). Wiley.

Online Scholarship

Starman, T.E. January 2025. “Creating Space for Constructive Conflict in Teaching Theory.” First Publics. (https://thesocietypages.org/firstpublics/2025/01/31/creating-space-for-constructive-conflict-in-teaching-theory/)

Starman, T.E. October 2024. “‘Christianity Showed Its Face’: The Role of Power in the Process of Christian Exiting and Formation as a Religious None.” Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. (https://thensrn.org/2024/10/29/christianity-showed-its-face-the-role-of-power-in-the-process-of-christian-exiting-and-formation-as-a-religious-none/).

Book Reviews and Other Writing

Starman, T.E. 2025. “Film Review: Bad Faith: Christianity’s Unholy War on Democracy.” Teaching Sociology. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X251345271

Starman, T. E. 2024. “Book Review: Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women’s Humanity from Evangelicalism.” Critical Research on Religion, 12(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032241226965

Starman, T.E. 2021. "A Theology Built on Meritocracy: A Theological and Sociological Examination of the Prosperity Gospel and the American Dream." Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 352.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/352