Scholarly and Professional Publications of Sociology Faculty
Books
- Page, R. (2005) Bike Week at Daytona Beach: Bad Boys and Fancy Toys. University Press of Mississippi.
- Wagner M. B. (2023) Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War Over Land. University Press of Kentucky.
- Wagner, M. B. (1990) God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society. Rutgers University Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (1983) Metaphysics in Midwestern America. Ohio State University Press.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Leicht, K. T. and E. C. W. Lyman. (2006) "Markets, Institutions, and the Crisis of Professional Practice." Research in the Sociology of Organization 24:17-44.
- Page, R. (2004) "Biking into the Mainstream.” Contexts 3 (1):71.
- Page, R. (2001) "Social Change at Bike Week." Visual Sociology 16 (1):7-35.
- Thomas, E., P. J. Obermiller, and M. B. Wagner (Spring/Summer 2013) "Fifty Years of Appalachian Advocacy: An Interview with Mike
Maloney." Appalachian Journal 40(3-4):174-218.
- Wagner, M. B. (Fall 2016/Winter 2017 and Spring/Summer 2018) "Letter to the Editor Response to Persistent
Misconceptions: Rehabilitating Jack Weller, Reevaluating Harry Caudill" by P. Obermiller,
T. Wagner, B. Tucker, and S. Fisher. Appalachian Journal 44(1-2):96-129, Appalachian Journal 45(3-4):680-682.
- Wagner, M. B. (2008) "We are All Activists," in S. Ballard and T. Stanley (eds.) Special Issue of Appalachian Journal honoring Stephen Fisher, activists, and activism in Appalachia.
- Wagner, M. B. (1984) "Metaphysics in Midwestern America." Journal of Popular Culture 17 (3):131-40.
- Wagner, M. B. (1997) "Generic Conservative Christianity: The Demise of Denominationalism in Christian
Schools." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36 (1):13-24.
- Wagner, M. B. (1999) "Measuring Cultural Attachment to Place in a Proposed Power Line Corridor." Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (2):241-6.
- Wagner, M. B. and K. L. Hendrick. (2001) "'You Have a Culture to Preserve Here, but We Have Power
Line to Stop': University/Community Study of Cultural Attachment to Place." Practicing Anthropology 23(2):10-4.
Book Chapters
- Wagner, M. B. (2020) "Celebrating the Local." In Reinventing and Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good. B. A. Hoey, ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2009) "Playing the Power Game: The Limits of Participatory Development." In Participatory Development in Appalachian Communities: Essays on Cultural Identity,
Social Capital and Sustainability. S. E. Keefe, ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2006) "Religion in Appalachia." In A Handbook to Appalachia. G. T. Edwards, J. A. Asbury, and R. L. Cox, eds. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee
Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2005) "Christian Schools." In The Encyclopedia of Religion in the South by S. S. Hill and C. Lippy. Mercer University Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2005) "Connecting What We Know to What We Do: Modifying Interview Techniques for
the Collective Self in Appalachia." In Culturally-Relevant Practice in Appalachia. S. Keefe. Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2002) "Space and Place, Land and Legacy." In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South. B. J. Howell. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (2001) "Monolith or the Tower of Babel? Ultimate Sacred Postulates at Work in Conservative
Christian Schools." In Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. E. Messer and M. Lambek. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Wagner, M. B. (1997) "The Anthropological Study of Religions in American Society." In Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook of Theory and Method. S. D. Glazier. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
- Wagner, M. B., K. Ingoldsby, C. Pauley, M. Dickerson, B. Hollandsworth, and A. Myers. (forthcoming)
"Roots With Wings: Oral History Project in Floyd County, Virginia." In Engaging Appalachia:
A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability. W. Schumann, ed. University
Press of Kentucky.
Miscellaneous Publications
- Wagner, M. B. (2019) "From the Front Porch to the Front Lines, Rural Virginia on a Threshold of
Change: The making of the movies." Historical Society of Western Virginia Journal 23:2:27-33.
- Wagner, M. B. (2010) "Education: Lose Yourself, Find the Other, Find Yourself." In Celebrations of Teaching: Radford University Faculty Perspectives. Radford University Foundation. Deer Park, NY: Linus Publications.
- Wagner, M. B. (2008) "The Black Church: Connecting a Community." In Pride and Preservation: Mountain View Cemetery by D. L. Brown. Radford, VA: Radford University Center for Experiential Learning and
Career Services.
- Wagner, M. B. (2005) Central Appalachia: People, Hardwood, and Coal. MapGuide to Appalachia, National Geographic Traveler 22(3).
- Wagner, M. B. (1994) Teacher's Corner: Beyond the Classroom Walls: University Students Create A
Children's Book, AnthroNotes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Bulletin for Teachers 16(2).
- Wagner, M. B. (1984) Analyzing the ABC'S OF APPALACHIA: University Students Write a Children's Book.
Focus: Teaching English Language Arts X(2):19-25.