2008 journal article
Sociology with a Southern face: Why are we sociologists and what are we doing about it in the South?
SOCIAL FORCES, 86(3), 881–909.
2002 book
The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming, and the environment
Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
2002 journal article
The regionalization of poverty: Assistance for the Black Belt South?
Southern Rural Sociology, 18(1), 294.
1999 journal article
Dismissal of a sociologist: The AAUP report on Carl C. Taylor
Rural Sociology, 64(4), 533–553.
1999 review
Services and quality of life in rural villages in the former Soviet Union: Data from 1991 and 1993 surveys
[Review of ]. Contemporary Sociology, 28(3), 332–333.
1998 journal article
Applied sociology? Even musicians give concerts
American Sociologist (Albany, N.Y.), 29(4), 5–19.
1997 journal article
Dependence as a factor in socioeconomic well-being: The U.S., the South, the Black Belt
1997 book
The Southern Black Belt: A national perspective
Lexington, KY: TVA Rural Studies, University of Kentucky.
1996 journal article
Lose half of America's farms? A definition can
Rural Sociologist, 16(2), 37.
1993 journal article
Policy perspectives on social, agricultural, and rural sustainability
Rural Sociology, 58(1), 1.