Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2022. “On Power’s Doorstep: Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity in Reproducing Masculine Domination.” Men and Masculinities 25(5):743–64. DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221098365. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zef59.
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
Shapiro, Andrew J. In Review. “Homosexual Exclusions: Homonormativity, Elitism, and Failed Assimilation in Pre-Nazi Germany.” Sociological Forum. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5zd2h.
Shapiro, Andrew J. In Progress. “Negating Jewish Difference: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Westernization in Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora.”
Buchanan, Blu, and Shapiro, Andrew J. In Progress. “Coalitions in Court: Measuring LGBTQ Alliance-Building through Amicus Briefs.”
Ray, Dean, Andrew J. Shapiro, Blu Buchanan, and Roger Cadena. In Progress. “Recognition: A Pathway to Inequality.”
Book Chapters
Andrew J. Shapiro. Invited. “Complicity of the Oppressed: A Socially Patterned Defect that Reproduces Inequality.” Authoritarian Attachments, edited by A. Wankmüller and M. Kajewski. Baden-Baden: Nomos. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/f23ec.
Andrew J. Shapiro. Invited. “Toward a Sociology of Zionism and Jewish Identity.” Teaching Palestine in Jewish Studies: Politics and Pedagogies, edited by E. Schneider and O. Kroll-Zeldin.
Chancer, Lynn S., and Andrew J. Shapiro. 2021. “Consciousness and Unconsciousness.” Pp. 583-603 in Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, edited by S. Abutryn and O. Lizardo. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78205-4_27. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jrx3f.
Book Reviews
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2019. Review of Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance and Power, edited by Kelly E. Happe, Jenell Johnson and Maria Levina. New Genetics and Society 38(3):358-60. DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2019.1586526. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/syjba.
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2019. Review of Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More-Than-Human Worlds by María Puig de la Bellacasa. New Genetics and Society 38(4):453-55. DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2019.1586527. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/78kch.
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2019. Reviewlet of Race and Sexuality by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Brandon A. Robinson, and Cristina Khan. Contemporary Sociology 48(3):360-61. DOI: 10.1177/0094306119842130f. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/fv64r.
Public-Facing Works
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2025. “Out of the Streets and into the Stacks?: Studying the Past in a Genocidal Present.” Distributaries (blog), May 27. (Link)
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2018. “Future as Resistance.” Eyewitness Accounts (blog), November 1. (Link).
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2018. “Kafkaesque.” Eyewitness Accounts (blog), November 5. (Link).
Shapiro, Andrew J. 2018. “Refusing to Fracture.” Eyewitness Accounts (blog), November 19. (Link).
Presented Scholarship
Invited Lectures
“Complicity of the Oppressed: A Socially Patterned Defect that Reproduces Inequality.” Keynote Address. Presented at the University of Hildesheim Workshop on Authoritarian Attachment Dynamics of Late-Stage Capitalism. Hildesheim, Germany. December 6, 2024.
“The Colonial Origins of Zionism.” Presented at the City College of New York. New York, NY. April 30, 2024.
Panel discussion of Raúl M. Pérez’s The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy. Presented at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. New York, NY. March 28, 2023.
“The Consequences of Whiteness.” Presented at Barnard College of Columbia University. New York, NY. December 7, 2022.
Conference Presentations
“Elitism, Exclusion, and Mutual Antagonism in the Homosexual Politics of Pre-Nazi Germany.” Accepted for presentation at the Queer-Class Relations Conference. New York, NY. April 17–18, 2026.
“(De-)Zionizing Jewishness, (De)colonizing Palestine.” Accepted for presentation at the Eastern Sociological Society 96th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. March 5-8, 2026.
“Negating Jewish Difference: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Westernization in Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora.” Presented at the American Sociological Association 120th Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 8-12, 2025.
“Failed Approximations: Homosexual Emancipation in Pre-WWII Germany.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 95th Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 6–9, 2025.
“Complicity of the Oppressed: A Socially Patterned Defect that Reproduces Inequality.” Presented at the Seventh International Erich Fromm Seminar for Doctoral Students and Postdocs. Tübingen, Germany. September 18-21, 2024.
“Hurt People Hurt People: Theorizing Complicity and Intergroup Solidarity.” Honorable Mention in the Social Problems Theory Division’s Student Paper Competition. Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems 74th Annual Meeting. Montreal, QC. August 9-11, 2024.
“Integrating Cultural, Interactionist, and Psychosocial Perspectives on Complicity and Solidarity.” Presented at Culture, Interaction, and the Psychosocial: Exploring the Intersections. Montreal, QC. August 8, 2024.
“Almost Normal: Ambivalent Conceptions of Self in LGBTQ Politics.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 94th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. February 29 – March 3, 2024.
“Theorizing Liminal Complicity in the Reproduction of Inequality.” Presented at the American Sociological Association 118th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. August 17–21, 2023.
“Escape from Weakness: Zionism, Cascading Trauma, and Flight from Jewish Selfhood.” Presented at the Fifth International Erich Fromm Seminar for Doctoral Students and Postdocs. Tübingen, Germany. September 14–17, 2022.
“Hurt People Hurt People: Liminal Complicity as a Factor in Social Reproduction.” Presented at the 34th Annual Group Processes Conference. Los Angeles, CA. August 10, 2022.
“Love and Whiteness: Intimate Racism and Relationship Satisfaction in Queer Interracial Partnerships.” Presented at the American Sociological Association 117th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. August 6–9, 2022.
“On Power’s Doorstep: Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity in Reproducing Masculine Domination.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 92nd Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 10–13, 2022.
“Coopting Pride: Struggles for Recognition in LGBTQ Movements.” Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems 70th Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 4–7, 2021.
“Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity: Theorizing the Psychosocial Investments of Subordinated/Subordinating Men.” Presented at the American Sociological Association 115th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 8–11, 2020.
“Assimilation, Shame, and Struggles for Recognition in LGBTQ Movements.” Presented at The Psychosocial Turn: Multidimensional Perspectives on Politics, Society, and the Individual. San Francisco, CA. August 7, 2020.
“Annexing the National Outsider: Discipline and Dependency in the Shifting Discourses of Normative Citizenship.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 90th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. February 27 – March 1, 2020.
“Escape from Weakness: Jewish Self-Negation and the Cascading Traumas of Zionism.” Presented at the Fourth International Erich Fromm Seminar for Doctoral Students and Postdocs. Tübingen, Germany. September 18–21, 2019.
“Authoritarianism and Support for Israel in Jewish America.” Presented at the American Sociological Association 114th Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 10–13, 2019.
“Hysteria and the Medicalization of Gender: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach” (with Josephine Barnett). Presented at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction 2019 Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 9–11, 2019.
“Splitting and Subjection in Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora.” Presented at the Self and Society Mini-Conference. New York, NY. August 9–10, 2019.
“Interracial Tension and Relationship Quality in Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 89th Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 14–17, 2019.
“Racial Performance in the Queer Male Sexual Marketplace.” Presented at the Roots and Branches of Interpretive Sociology Conference. Philadelphia, PA. August 10–11, 2018.
“Sadomasochism and Liminal Complicity in the Persistence of Inequality.” Presented at the Third International Erich Fromm Seminar for Doctoral Students and Postdocs. Berlin, Germany. June 20–21, 2018.
“Vision, Visibility and Transparency in Queer Performance Art.” Presented at the Gender and Women’s Studies Symposium. Madison, WI. March 2–3, 2018.
“Forming and Performing Race in Queer Male Interracial Contexts.” Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society 88th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. February 21–25, 2018.
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