Research

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Barnes, Liberty+, Sasha Johfre+, and Christin Munsch+ (+equal authorship). 2024. “Galvanizing the ‘Missing Revolution’: Processes and Meanings of the Child/Adult Binary.” American Journal of Sociology 130(1). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730457 

Johfre, Sasha, and Aliya Saperstein. 2023. “The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-031021-121020

Freese, Jeremy, and Sasha Johfre. 2022. “Binary Contrasts for Unordered Polytomous Regressors.” Stata Journal 22(1), 125-133. doi.org/10.1177/1536867X221083900

Johfre, Sasha, Saperstein, Aliya, and Jill A. Hollenbach. 2021. “Measuring Race and Ancestry in the Age of Genetic Testing.” Demography, 58(3), 785-810. doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9142013

·       Lead article in journal issue

·       Featured in: Stanford News (May 17, 2021), Medical Xpress (May 17, 2021), Futurity (May 18, 2021), KCBS Radio San Francisco (May 19, 2021), Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley (June 4, 2021), Voice of America & Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (July 3, 2021), BYU Radio (July 14, 2021), The Good Men Project (Aug 5, 2021), NPR (Aug 28, 2021)

Johfre, Sasha, and Jeremy Freese. 2021. “Reconsidering the Reference Category.” Sociological Methodology, 51(2), 253–269. doi.org/10.1177/0081175020982632

·       Top-10 most downloaded articles from journal in 2021

Johfre, Sasha. 2020. “What Age is in a Name?” Sociological Science, 7: 367-390. https://doi.org/10.15195/v7.a15

Johnson-Freyd, Sasha. 2011. “Direct Paternal Care and Aggression: an Empirical Exploration Using the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample.” Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, 3:162-172. doi.org/10.1108/17596591111154194

CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Scientific articles

Johfre, Sasha. Forthcoming. “The Sociology of Age Diversity.” Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Connections, Edited by Elizabeth F. Fideler.

Johfre, Sasha. 2021. “Report on Intergenerational Relationships.” Stanford Center on Longevity New Map of Life Program. https://longevity.stanford.edu/the-new-map-of-life-report/

Miller, J., Horwitz, I., Johfre, S., Jonas, A., Roche, M., Sierra Huertas, D., Streeter, J. Wang, C., Deevy, M., & Carstensen, L.L. May, 2021. “Effectively reducing race differences in old age demands a life course approach.” AARP Magazine. http://aarp.org/buildequity

Johfre, Sasha, and Aliya Saperstein. 2019. “Gender and Racial Identification.” Pathways 2019 Special Issue: The Millennial Dilemma. Center for Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University. https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/media/details/state-union-2019-racial-and-gender-identities

·       Featured in: Stanford News (June 6, 2019), Health Europe (June 11, 2019), BBN Times (June 12, 2019), Pacific Standard (June 13, 2019), Psychology Today (January 13, 2021)

Johnson-Freyd, Sasha, & Jennifer Freyd. 2013. “Revenge and Forgiveness or Betrayal Blindness?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36:23-24. (Invited commentary.) doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12000398

Public writing

Johfre, Sasha. February 4, 2022. “In a world experiencing unprecedented age diversity, how should we think about age?” Encore.org. (Invited blog post). https://encore.org/in-a-world-experiencing-unprecedented-age-diversity-how-should-we-think-about-age/amp/

Johfre, Sasha. July 3, 2021. “It’s been 50 years since the voting age was last lowered. It’s time to do it again.” Newsweek (Guest opinion piece). https://www.newsweek.com/its-been-50-years-since-voting-age-was-lowered-its-time-do-it-again-opinion-1605608

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION  (* indicates student collaborator)

Johfre, Sasha, Ágnes Eszter Fejér*, Elizabeth Nguyen*, Patricia Carrasco*, and Lauren Woyczynski*. “Playing the Nature Card: How Appeals to Nature Construct Ideals of Rugged Masculinity and Natural Femininity.”

Johfre, Sasha. “The Natural-is-Better Cultural Logic and the Maintenance of Inequality.” 

Johfre, Sasha, Danny Nolan*, and Jeremy Freese. “The Salience-Exclusion Tradeoff: The Case of Coed Sports.”

Johfre, Sasha and Laura Wu*. “The Multidimensionality of Age Status: Insights from Natural Language.”