In the Public Eye

• Featured in STAT: "Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology"
• Featured in Texas Monthly: "Are Some People Born Lucky?"

• Work on dreams of the futures has been featured in The Conversation, The Chicago Tribune, and Psychology Today, as well as several podcasts.
• Research on the social meaning of commercial scents was featured in the Science section of LeMonde and on the BBC radio show Thinking Aloud. 
• Work on our inability to anticipate worst case scenarios was featured in Slate Magazine and Sociology Lens.
• Featured on the radio show Freakonomics and in Dame Magazine regarding her research on public apologies.  

• Research on immigrant voting in Europe featured by the International Migration Institute at Oxford University.
• Interviewed about New Jersey Supper Clubs as a strategy to reduce inter-group tensions between natives and immigrants in the Asbury Park Press and USA Today Network.

• Published op-eds in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog on the relationship between social media activity and far-right support in Germany and Italy.
• Interviewed by The New Scientist, Vox, and Business Insider about his research on automated hate speech detection.

• Speaker at the 2021 Capacity Building Hub event on “The Role of Universities in Building Long-term Climate Capacities” at the UN climate negotiations COP 26. 

• Penned a piece in the Huffington Post explaining why the United States has the highest rate of deadly force by police in the industrialized world.
• Research featured in a Salon article by Charlie May entitled “We may have a treatment for our police shooting epidemic we’re just not using it.”
• Interviewed by Tasnim News (Iran) on the role of racism in America’s deadly force epidemic and challenges and utility of forging a multi-racial coalition to confront the issue.

• Silva, Katelyn. 2017. The New Salon: Leslie Jones on the intersection of Black feminism and social media.

• Research featured in Jill Buchner, 2019. “Doctors Ignored This Woman’s Suffering for Years. Why Is Women’s Pain So Often Dismissed?” Reader’s Digest-Canada.
• In this video, Quartz, the video arm of The Atlantic, draws on Kempner’s research to argue that stigma contributes to the delegitimation of migraine. “Why don’t we have a cure for migraine?”
• A documentary film entitled Out of My Head that explores migraine, featuring Kempner’s research alongside an intimate portrayal of her life with migraine.

• Discusses the role of families in U.S. immigration policies, past and present.

MacKendrick’s editorial in The Guardian: Your fast food wrappers contain toxic chemicals. Why is that allowed?
MacKendrick’s book Better Safe Than Sorry featured in the Washington Post, “Scientists know plastics are dangerous. Why won’t the government say so?” September 12, 2018
Interviewed on National Public Radio, (Madison, WI). Should We Be More Worried About Chemicals in Food and Consumer Products? June 12, 2018

• Interviewed by Slate's "Better Life Lab" podcast about the effects of gig work on sleep, April 21, 2022

• Penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “The Dangerous Shifting Cultural Narratives around Suicide” Sunday, March 24, 2019.
• Research featured in the New York Times, “How Suicide Quietly Morphed into a Public Health Crisis”, June 8, 2018.
• Interviewed on NPR’s Hidden Brain about American Masculinity and Loneliness, March 19, 2018.

• Research featured in the New York Times, “In a Fight for land: A Women’s Movement Shakes Morocco.” May 7, 2017.
• Interviewed by the New York Times about the public reception of Moroccan actress in her role as a sex work in controversial movie, “Loubna Abidar, Moroccan Actress, Finds Fame Tinged with Fury.” February, 12, 2016.
• Summary of workshop at the Eliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University in Washington Post, Monkey Cage, “The changing face of women’s political participation in the Middle East”. May 10, 2016.

• An interview on “This Week in Sociological Perspective” by Prof. Sam Lucas discusses recent work on how schools implement anti-bullying policies.
• Research featured in the New Yorker about the role of norms in social change.
• Research featured in a CNN Health article specifically about Shepherd’s anti-peer harassment field experiment in 56 NJ middle schools.

• Book Unbound reviewed by New York Times, Harper's, The New Yorker, Kirkus, Bookmarks, Washington Post, Men and Masculinities.
• Excerpted in Lit Hub, ​Daily Beast.
• Interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio, WNYC, Doing Decimal, CSPAN, Bay Area Reporter, Nursing Clio