Misra’s cv is available here.
Recent Books
Joya Misra and Kyla Walters. 2022. Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Honorable Mention: ASA Race, Gender & Class and Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility Section Book Awards.
Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. (Eds.) 2020. The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart, Marni Brown. (Eds.) 2017. Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Recent Articles
Joya Misra, Ember Kanelee, Ethel Mickey, and Laurel Smith Doerr. 2025. “‘I don’t believe that I have been wanted’: Processes of Overinclusion and Exclusion in Racialized and Gendered Organizations” Social Problems. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae043
Joya Misra, Ethel Mickey, Ember Kanelee*, Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2024. “Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 17(2), 176–189. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000402
Joya Misra. “Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century.” 2023. American Journal of Sociology. 129(3): 955-964. https://doi.org/10.1086/728974
Joya Misra. 2023. “The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology.” Sociological Forum. 38(S1): 1124-1143. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12910
Kyla Walters* & Joya Misra. 2023. “Stop Discounting Retail Workers.” Work & Occupations. 50(3): 368–375.
Kyla Walters* & Joya Misra. 2023. “Cool Clothes and Fun Times? Consumer Identity in Retail Clothing Work.” In Amy Wharton’s Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era. New York: Routledge.
Ethel Mickey, Joya Misra, and Dessie Clark. 2023. “The Persistence of Neoliberal Logics
in Faculty Evaluations amidst Covid-19: Recalibrating Towards Equity.” Gender, Work, & Organizations. 30(2): 638– 656.
Joya Misra, Ethel Mickey, Ember Kanelee*, Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2022. “Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Ethel Mickey, Joya Misra, and Dessie Clark. 2022. “The Persistence of Neoliberal Logics in Faculty Evaluations amidst Covid-19: Recalibrating Towards Equity.” Gender, Work, & Organizations. Online First.
Dessie Clark, Ethel Mickey, and Joya Misra. 2022. “Growing the Roots of Equity:The TREE Model of Institutional Response to COVID-19.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.15(5): 681–694.
Ember Skye Kanelee,* Joya Misra, and Ethel Mickey. 2022. “Fostering Inclusion for Black Faculty.” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. 12(1): 54-63.
Joya Misra, KerryAnn O’Meara, Alexandra Kuvaeva, Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, and Audrey Jaeger. 2021. “Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workload.” Gender & Society. 35(3): 358-394.
Joya Misra, Celeste Vaughan Curington, * and Venus Mary Green.* 2021. “Methods of Intersectional Research.” Sociological Spectrum.41(1)9-28.
Joya Misra, Ethel Mickey, and Dessie Clark. 2020. “Addressing and Documenting Pandemic Impacts.” ADVANCE Journal. 2(2). https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.2.1
Joya Misra. 2020. “Women, Politics, and Gender Inequality.” Western New England Law Review. 42(3):397-417.
KerryAnn O’Meara , Elizabeth Beise , Dawn Culpepper , Joya Misra & Audrey Jaeger. “Faculty Work Activity Dashboards: A Strategy to Increase Transparency.” 2020. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 52:(3)34-42.
Joya Misra and Mary Bernstein. 2020. “Sexuality, Gender, and Social Policy.” In Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin’s The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. 2020. “Introduction.” In Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin’s The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dawn Culpepper, Sarah Kilmer, KerryAnn O’Meara, Joya Misra, and Audrey J. Jaeger. 2020. “Terrapin Time Initiative: A Workshop to Enhance Alignment between Faculty Work Priorities and Time Use.” Innovative Higher Education.
KerryAnn O’Meara, Courtney Lennartz, Alexandra Kuvaeva, Audrey Jaeger, Joya Misra. 2019. “Department Conditions and Practices Associated with Faculty Workload Satisfaction, Perceptions of Equity, and Intent to Leave.” Journal of Higher Education. 90(5) 744-772.
Eunjung Jee,* Joya Misra, and Marta Murray-Close. 2019. “Motherhood Penalties in the U.S., 1986-2014.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 81(2): 434-449
Diego Leal, * Ragini Sairi Malhotra,* and Joya Misra. 2019. “Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s.” Socius. 5:1-3.
KerryAnn O’Meara, Audrey Jaeger, Joya Misra, and Courtney Lennartz. 2018. “Undoing Disparities in Faculty Workloads: A Randomized Trial Experiment.” PLoSONE 13(12): e0207316.
Joya Misra. 2018. “Categories, Structures, and Intersectional Theory.” In James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell’s (Eds.) Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research. New York: NYU Press.