PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Barnes, Liberty+, Sasha Johfre+, and Christin Munsch+ (+equal first authorship). 2024. “Galvanizing the ‘Missing Revolution’: Processes and Meanings of the Child/Adult Binary.” American Journal of Sociology 130(1). doi.org/10.1086/730457
· Winner of the 2024 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
· Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution: Journal Article or Book Chapter, ASA Section on Children and Youth
Johfre, Sasha, and Aliya Saperstein. 2023. “The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49. 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
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Scientific articles
Johfre, Sasha. Forthcoming 2025. “The Sociology of Age Diversity.” Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Connections, Edited by Elizabeth F. Fideler. Oxford University Press.
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
Scientific figures
Scientific figures re-printed in: Innovating for Diversity (book by Bertina Ceccarelli and Susanne Tedrick)
Collaborative scientific figures featured academic journals, including: Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan, Violence Against Women; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Scientific figures featured in public-facing resources: Benchling blog
PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION (* indicates student collaborator)
Johfre, Sasha, Danny Nolan*, and Jeremy Freese. “Fair Play Policy: Gender Salience in Coed Sport.” Under review
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.” Under review.
Visokay, Adam*, Kentaro Hoffman*, Stephen Salerno*, Tyler McCormick, and Sasha Johfre. “How to measure obesity in public health research? Problems with using BMI for population inference.” Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.01.25325037
Johfre, Sasha and Laura Wu*. “Age is a Multidimensional Status Characteristic: Insights from Natural Language.”
Johfre, Sasha. “Naturalness Dogma Theory.”
Johfre, Sasha. “Evidence for a Natural-is-Better Cultural Logic that Maintains Inequality.”
Johfre, Sasha and Adam Visokay*. “Age Beyond Chronology: Examining the Multidimensional Role of Age in Demographic and Sociological Processes.”
Hale, Caroline*, and Sasha Johfre. “Where does difference come from? Theory on essentialism and determinism of social categories.”