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“Meaning on the Move: Synthesizing Cognitive and Systems Concepts of Culture.” 2019. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-28. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. [view or download]
“The relative autonomy of Jeffrey Alexander.” 2019. Sociologia & Antropologia. Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 267-274. [view or download]
“The Persistence of Pardons and the End of Attainder: Moral Explanations and Moral Facts.” 2018. European Journal of Sociology. Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 91-118. [view or download]
“When Voters are Voting, What are they Doing?: Symbolic Selection and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.” 2017. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 426-442. [view or download]
“Real Mythic Histories: Circulatory Networks and State Centrism.” 2017. In Go and Lawson, eds. Global Historical Sociology. Cambridge University Press. [view or download]
“Principal Agent Relations and the Decline of the Royal African Company.” 2015. Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 29 “Chartering Capitalism,” pp. 45–76. [view or download]
“Classification and Coercion: The Destruction of Piracy in the English Maritime System.” 2014. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 1537-1575. [view or download]
“Mechanisms and Meaning Structures.” 2014. Sociological Theory, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 162-187. [view or download]
“Temporality, Isolation, and Violence in the Early Modern English Maritime World.” 2014. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 37-66. [view or download]
“A Structural Hermeneutics of The O’Reilly Factor.” 2011. Theory and Society. Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 315-346. [view or download]
“Narrative Structure and Emotional Mobilization in Humanitarian Representations: The Case of the Congo Reform Movement, 1903-1912.” 2011. Journal of Human Rights. Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 311-338. [view or download]