Journal Articles

Turney, Kristin, Rachel Bauman, MacKenzie A. Christensen, and Rebecca Goodsell. 2025. “Stress Proliferation or Stress Relief? Understanding Mothers’ Health During Son’s Incarceration." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. OnlineFirst. doi: 10.1177/00221465251330848

Christensen, MacKenzie A., Kristin Turney, Suyeon Jang. 2025. “The Carceral Contradictions of Motherhood.” American Sociological Review 90(1):61-87. doi: 10.1177/00031224241307655

Christensen, MacKenzie A. and Judith Treas. 2024. “Digital Boundary Work and Work-to-Family Spillover in Europe: Examining the Role of Digital Skills” Community, Work & Family 27(5):649-672. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2024.2412700

Turney, Kristin, Katelyn Rose Malae, MacKenzie A. Christensen, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin. 2023. “‘Even Though We’re Married, I’m Single’: The Meaning of Incarceration in Romantic Relationships.” Criminology 61(4):795-822. doi: 10.1111/1745-9125.12349

• Findings featured in The Society Pages

Christensen, MacKenzie A. 2023. “Tracing the Gendered Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Tech Ability.” Social Science Research 111. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102853

•  Received the Charles A. Lave Paper Prize Award from the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine.

• Received the Robin M. Williams Paper Award for Best Empirical Graduate Paper from the Department of Sociology at UC Irvine. 

Christensen, MacKenzie A. 2021. “‘Tindersluts’ & ‘Tinderellas:’ Examining the Digital Affordances Shaping the (Hetero)Sexual Scripts of Young Womxn on Tinder.” Sociological Perspectives 64(3):432-449. doi: 10.1177/0731121420950756

McGee, Julius Alexander, Patrick Greiner, MacKenzie A. Christensen, Christina Ergas, and Mathew Clement. 2020. “Gender Inequality, Reproductive Justice, and Decoupling Economic Growth and Emissions: A Panel Analysis of the Moderating Association of Gender Equality on the Relationship between Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions.” Environmental Sociology 6(3):254-267. doi: 10.1080/23251042.2020.1736364

Mahmoudi, Dillon, Amy Lubitow, and MacKenzie A. Christensen. 2019. “Reproducing Spatial Inequality? The Sustainability Fix and Barriers to Urban Mobility in Portland, Oregon.” Urban Geography 41(6):801-822. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1698865

Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons and MacKenzie A. Christensen. 2018. “Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men’s Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage.” Journal of Family Issues 39(11):3055-3074. doi: 10.1177/0192513X18770218

• Findings featured in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and Jezebel.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming. Christensen, MacKenzie A. and Katelyn Rose Malae. “Beauty, Dating, and Desirability” Handbook on Beauty and Inequality, in the Springer Handbooks of Social Sciences series.

Christensen, MacKenzie A. 2019.“Feminization of Poverty: Causes and Implications.” In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_6-1