Here are links to my academic writings. If you would like to read any of the below but do not have access, please contact me.
Stefan Timmermans and Pamela J. Prickett. 2022. Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives. American Sociological Review 87(3): 504-528.
Prickett, Pamela J. and Stefan Timmermans. 2022. “If No One Grieves, No One Will Remember”: Religion and the Mourning of Abandoned Babies. British Journal of Sociology 73(2): 244-258. *open access
Bolger, Dan and Pamela J. Prickett. 2021. Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations. Religions 12(12): 1062, 1-15. *open access
Timmermans, Stefan, and Pamela J. Prickett. 2021. The Social Autopsy. Sociological Methods and Research. Online first.
Prickett, Pamela J. 2021. When the Road is Covered in Nails: Making Sense of Madness in an Urban Mosque. Social Problems 68(1): 136–151. *open access
Sohn, Heeju, Stefan Timmermans, and Pamela J. Prickett. 2020. Loneliness in Life and in Death? Social and Demographic Patterns of Unclaimed Deaths. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0238348. *open access
Mirto, Giorgia, Simon Robins, Karina Horsti, Pamela J. Prickett, Deborah Ruiz Verduzco, and Victor Toom. 2020. Chapter 5, Mourning missing migrants: Ambiguous loss and the grief of strangers in Border Deaths: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality. Paolo Cuttitta and Tamara Last (eds). Amsterdam University Press. *open access
Prickett, Pamela J. 2019. Changing Constructions of Religious Visibility: The Case of an African American Muslim Community in South Central LA. Social Compass 66(1): 49-61. *open access
Timmermans, Stefan and Pamela J. Prickett. 2019. Becoming the City: Teaching Urban Ethnography and Mentoring Urban Ethnographers. Urban Ethnography (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 16), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 53-68.
Tinsley IV, Cleve, Pamela J. Prickett, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2018. How African American Protestants Frame Science. Du Bois Review 15(2): 533-546.
Prickett, Pamela J. 2018. Complexity Beyond Intersections: Race, Class, and Neighborhood Disadvantage among African American Muslims. Social Inclusion 6(2), 98-106. *open access
Vaidyanathan, Brandon, David R. Johnson, Pamela J. Prickett, Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. Rejecting the Conflict Narrative: American Jewish and Muslim Views on Science and Religion. Social Compass 63(4): 478–496.
Prickett, Pamela J. 2015. Negotiating Gendered Religious Space: The Particularities of Patriarchy in an African American Mosque. Gender & Society 29(1): 51-72.
Prickett, Pamela J. 2014. Contextualizing from Within: Perceptions of Physical Disorder in a South Central L.A. African American Mosque. City & Community 13(3): 214-232.