Research
Please see the HOME page for a description of my research interests, or the BOOKS page for details about the books I have written.
SELECTED ARTICLES
(sole authored by Katja M. Guenther unless otherwise noted)
2020. "'Taking the Ghetto Out of the Dog': Reproducing Social Inequalities in Pit Bull Rescue." Ethnic and Racial Studies.
2019. "Secular Sexism: The Persistence of Gender Inequality in the US New Atheist Movement." Women's Studies International Forum 72(1): 47-55.
2019. Maldonado, Marta Maria and Katja M. Guenther. "Critical Mobilities in the Neoliberal University." Feminist Formations 31(1): vii-xxii.
2018. "Reclaiming Space for Women: Negotiating Modernity in Feminist Restorations in Post-Socialist Eastern Germany." In The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space, and Gender, edited by Alexandra Staub. New York: Routledge.
2017. “Volunteers’ Power and Resistance in the Struggle for Shelter Animal Survival.” Sociological Forum 32(4): 1-13.
2017. “How Volunteerism Inhibits Social Movement Mobilization: A Case Study of Shelter Animal Advocates.” Social Movement Studies 17(2) 240-253.
2017. “Grassroots Organizing in Eastern Germany to Promote Women in STEM.” In Gender, Intersections, and Institutions: Intersectional Groups Building Alliances and Gaining Voice in Germany, edited by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2015. “Humor, Collective Identity, and Framing in the New Atheist Movement.” Co-authored with Natasha Radojcic, and Kerry Mulligan. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 38: 203-227.
2014. “Bounded by Disbelief: How Atheists in the United States Differentiate Themselves from Religious Believers.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 29 (1): 1-16.
2013. Katja M. Guenther and Kerry Mulligan with Cameron Papp. “From the Outside In: Crossing Boundaries to Build Collective Identity in the New Atheist Movement.” Social Problems 60(4):457-475.
2012. “A Movement without Memory: Feminism and Collective Memory in Post-Socialist Eastern Germany.” Mobilization 17(2): 157-174.
2011. “The Possibilities and Pitfalls of NGO Feminism in Eastern and Central Europe.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 36(4): 863-887.
2011. Katja M. Guenther, Sadie Pendaz, and Fortunata Makene Songora. “The Impact of Intersecting Dimensions of Inequality and Identity on the Racial Status of Eastern African Immigrants.” Sociological Forum 26 (1): 98-120.
2009. “The Politics of Names: Rethinking the Methodological and Ethical Significance of Naming People, Organizations, and Places.” Qualitative Research 9 (4) 411-424.
2009. “The Impact of Emotional Opportunity Structures on the Emotion Cultures of Feminist Organizations.” Gender & Society 23 (3): 337-362.
2008. “Understanding Policy Diffusion across Feminist Movements: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming.” Politics & Gender 4 (4): 587-613.
2006. “‘A Bastion of Sanity in a Crazy World’: A Local Feminist Movement and the Reconstitution of Scale, Space, and Place in an Eastern German City.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society 13 (4): 551-575.
Photo: Collars from animals impounded at a high-intake public shelter hang on a fence. Courtesy of L. Fogel.
Photo description: The black-and-white image captures a cluster of dog collars tossed onto a chain link fence. At the front hangs a collar with a tag attached that reads, "Special Dog. If found contact," and a telephone number. The chain link fence seems to run beyond the edge of the photo frame. In the background, the whisper of a one-story building is discernible.