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Townsley, E. 鈥淭he Space of Opinion:  Intellectuals, Media, and the Public Sphere.鈥 (with Ron Jacobs). New York: Oxford University Press. 2011


Townsley, E. 鈥淐ontexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case-study of 鈥淧ublic Intellectual鈥 Debates in English Canada鈥 (with Neil McLaughlin), Canadian Review of Sociology / La Soci茅t茅 canadienne de sociologie 48(4):341-368. (2011)


Townsley, E. 鈥淚ntellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere鈥. Pp. 284-317 in The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Jacobs and Phillip Smith (eds). Oxford University Press. (2011)


Townsley, E.   鈥淐areer Pathways in the Natural and Social Sciences Science in Liberal Arts Institutions鈥 NSF Advance Grant Proposal for Institutional Transformation with Renae Brodie, Amber Douglas, Elizabeth Markovits, and Matthew McKeever. (2011)


Townsley, E. The Sociology of Intellectual Life by Steve Fuller. Review. Contemporary Sociology 39(6):708-704. (2010)


Kenneth Tucker published the article, 鈥淎 New Kind of Personal Politics: On the Populism of Trump and Sanders,鈥 Journal of Political Ideologies. Published online December 22, 2022.


Tucker, K. "The Political is Personal, Expressive, Aesthetic, and Networked:  Contemporary American Languages of the Self from Trump to Black Lives Matter."  American Journal of Cultural Sociology. ( June 2017).


Tucker, K. "(S)he Conquers Who Endures":  Theodora DeWolf Colt and the Birth of a New American Elite," American Nineteenth Century History 18 (2017):  63-85 (with Barbara Tucker).


Tucker, K. "Politics and Aesthetics," Sociology Compass 5 (August 2011): 712-20.


Tucker, K. Workers of the World Enjoy!  Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement (Temple University Press, 2010)