Forthcoming How To Tell a New Story About Battering. Violence Against Women.
1998 It Was Like a Fever...: Spontaneity and Identity in Collective Action. Social Problems 45: 137-159.
1997 Culture and Its Discontents: Recent Theorizing on Culture and Protest. Sociological Inquiry 67: 431-450.
1994 Strategy and Identity in 1960s Black Protest. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 17 (1994): 85-114.
1999 Snarls, Quacks, and Quarrels: Culture and Structure in Political Process Theory. Sociological Forum 14: 67-74.
1998 Legacies and Liabilities of an Insurgent Past: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr., on the House and Senate Floor. Social Science History 22: 479-512.
2000 The Structural Context of Novel Rights Claims: Rights Innovation in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1966. Law and Society Review 34: 367-406.
2000 The Return of the Repressed: Several Generations of Scholarship on Emotions in Social Movements. (with Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper) Mobilization 5: 65-84.
2001 This is What Democracy Looks Like: Decisionmaking in the Direct Action Network. Social Policy 31: 25-30.
2001 Plotting Protest: Storytelling in the 1960 Student Sit-In Movement. In Stories of Change: Narratives in Social Movements, edited by Joseph Davis, State University of New York Press.
2001 Why Emotions Matter. (with Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper) In Passionate Politics, edited by Goodwin, Jasper, and Polletta. Univ. Chicago.
2001 Conclusion: Second that Emotion? Lessons from Once-Novel Concepts in the Sociology of Social Movements. (with Edwin Amenta) In Passionate Politics.
2001 Collective Identity in Social Movements (with James Jasper). Annual Review of Sociology 27: 283-305.
2003 Strategy and Democracy in the New Left. In The New Left Revisited, edited by Paul Buhle and John McMillian. Temple University Press
2003 Culture is Not Just in Your Head. In Rethinking Social Movements, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Rowman and Littlefield.
2004 The Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements (with Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper). In The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. Blackwell Publishers.
2004 Can You Celebrate Dissent? Holidays and Social Protest. In The Ways We Celebrate, edited by Amitai Etzioni. New York University Press.
2004 Culture In and Outside Institutions. In Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 25: 161-183.
2005 Public Deliberation after 9/11 (with Lesley Wood). In Wounded City: The Social Effects of the World Trade Center Attack on New York City, edited by Nancy Foner. Russell Sage.
2006 Frames and Their Consequences (with M. Kai Ho). In The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Studies, edited by Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly. Oxford Univ. Press (2006).
2006 Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy? Rhetoric in Public Deliberation after 9/11 (with John Lee). American Sociological Review 71 (5): 699-723.
2007 Participatory Democracy in Social Movements, Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell.
2008 Storytelling in Social Movements in Social Movements and Culture, edited by Hank Johnston. Routledge.
2008. Culture and Movements. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 619: 78-96.
2009 Is information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum Journal of Public Deliberation. 5(1) (with P.C. Bobby Chen and Christopher Anderson)
Forthcoming Culture and Strategy, in Making History: Movements, Strategy, and Social Change, edited by Jeff Goodwin, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Gregory Maney, and Deana Rohlinger
Forthcoming Social Movement Cultures in The Sociology of Culture: A Handbook, edited by Laura Grindstaff, John Hall, and Ming-Chen Lo. Routledge.
Forthcoming Narrative and Social Movements (with Pang Ching Bobby Chen) in The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Jacobs, and Philip Smith. Oxford Univ. Press.