Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Adams-Fuller, Terri M., John Ahlquist, Jacob Grumbach, Tess E. Starman. 2025. “Wage Theft and Collective Action among Frontline Workers.” Labor Studies Journal 50(3):263-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X241313255.

Starman, Tess 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 supplement 26(1):59-78. https://cdr.creighton.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/2308af74-7dfd-4e05-817b-

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Adams-Fuller, Terri M., Beza Afework, Nyana Browne, Bethel Cole-Smith, Rodney Green, Hadar Kurban, Digna Mosquera, Tess E. Starman, Omari Swinton, Angelino Viceisza. 2025. "Barriers to Building Wealth among Black High-Income Earners." Review of Black Political Economy 52(4):454-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446251331616.

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

Starman, Tess E. 2024. “Horace R. Cayton,” In Marie Claude Jipguep-Akhtar and Nazneen M. Khan (Ed.), Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought. New York: Routledge.

Jipguep-Akhtar, Marie Claude and Tess E. Starman. 2024. “Kehinde Andrews,” In Marie Claude Jipguep-Akhtar and Nazneen M. Khan (Ed.), Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought. New York: Routledge.

Cummings, Jason E. and Tess E. Starman. 2025. “Race and Physical Health.” In G.Ritzer, C. Rojek, and J.M. Ryan (Eds.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1060.pub2

Online & Public Scholarship

Soden, Gregory (Host). Tess E. Starman (Guest). 2025. “EP 328: Christian Disaffiliation and Exiting w/Dr. Tess Starman.” The Classical Ideas Podcast. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dks0NMaU2Q).

Starman, Tess 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, Tess 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/).

Reviews and Other Writing

Starman, Tess E. 2025. “Review of Bad Faith: Christianity’s Unholy War on Democracy.” Teaching Sociology 53(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X251345271

Huft, Justin, and Tess E. Starman. 2025. “God and Country: Christian Nationalism in the U.S.” Sociological Forum Teaching Modules. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15737861/teaching-
modules/Sociology-of-Religion-Teaching-Module-1759913480380.pdf)

Starman, Tess 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, Tess 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