Publications and Presentations

Conference Papers and Presentations

Alhadyan, Shahed & Stephenson, M. (2027, April). Between Staying and Returning: Urban Governance, Educational Rights, and Syrian Refugee Futures in Jordan. International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Bakshi, Yugasha. (2027, April). Infrastructure, Coping, and Accountability: A Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Water Security and Municipal Performance in Delhi. International Conference on Urban Affairs. New York New York.

Farzaneh, Amin., Stephenson, M., & Stephens, B. (2027, April). Community Power and the Governing Agenda: Exploring the Case of Evans Spring in Roanoke, VA. 2027 International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Firouzi, Armin., Stephenson, M., Stephens, B., & Bakshi, Y. (2027, April). An Assemblage Analysis of Emergent Capacities in Industrial Heritage Conservation in a Public-Private Partnership. 2027 International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Sehat, Helya & Nourian, F. (2027, April). Who’s Right to the Smart City? Participation, Public Space and Urban Agency. 2027 International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Stephens, Bradley. (2027, April). Re(de)fining Community Engagement: A nine-dimensional framework for analyzing community engagement. 2027 International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Articles

Firouzi, A and Stephenson, M. Jr. (2026). Review of Arts, Heritage and Performative Politics, Laima Nomeikaite and Michael Haldrup, eds. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing 2025. International Journal of Heritage Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2611231

Lim, T.C, Niamke, S., Knight, D., Stephens, B., & Wagle, P. (2026). Trauma as Condition and Trauma as Claim: Advancing the Concept of Trauma in Planning Theory and Practice. Planning Theory & Practice, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2026.2708644 

Conference Papers and Presentations

Alhadyan, S., & Stephenson, M. (2026, Feb. 26-28). Urban Governance and the Right to Education: Syrian Refugees' Stay or Return Decisions in Jordan [Paper Presentation]. Symposium on Refugee and Migrant Education, Blacksburg, VA. https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/center-for-refugee-migrant-and-displacement-studies.html

Bakshi, Y (2026, March 22-25). Community Organizations as Actors in Urban Water Governance: Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities [Paper Presentation]. International Studies Association, Columbus, OH. https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2026

Bakshi, Y (2026, March 22-25). Risk, Trust, and Cooperation: A Study of Delhi's Water Governance [Paper Presentation]. International Studies Associaton, Columbus, OH. https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2026

Farzaneh, A., Stephens, B. A., & Stephenson, M. O. (2026, October). Rethinking Urban Governance in the Post-Industrial City: Urban Political Order in Roanoke. 66th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.acsp.org/page/ConfAllAbout2026

Firouzi, A., Stephens, B. A., & Farzaneh, A. (2026, October). Disentangling Institutional and Organizational Constraints on Public Participation in Planning: Lessons from Roanoke, VA. 66th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.acsp.org/page/ConfAllAbout2026

Firouzi, A., & Stephenson, M. Jr. (2026, May 1). Navigating Rights to Culture in the City: Lessons from Afghan Refugees in Roanoke, Virginia [Conference abstract]. International Conference on Urban Affairs (ICUA), Chicago, IL. https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/

Guerra, V., Guerra, M., Astudillo, F, & Durán-Ballén, S. (2026, May 1). Community-Led Urban Resilience and Infrastructure Challenges in Island Cities: Evidence from San Cristóbal, Galápagos [Conference abstract]. International Conference on Urban Affairs (ICUA), Chicago, IL. https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/

Kirakosyan, L., Alhadyan, S., and Stephenson, M. (2026, May 5-8). The Materiality of Belonging: Disability and the Limits of Diasporic Hybridity [Paper Presentation]. Online. International Scientific Conference Institute on Humanities and Social Studies

Nagle, L., Davidson-Wert, N., Rickard, C. (2026, October), Assessment-Driven Planning for LGBTQIA+ Health in Southwest Virginia. 2026 Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Knoxville, Tennessee. https://engagementscholarship.org/meetings/esc-2026

Schnitzer, M., & Frey, F.M. (2026, September). Nonprofits as Storytellers: Community, Meaning, and Expression. 122nd Annual National Meeting of the American Political Science Association; Boston, Massachusetts. https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/

Sharp, A. (2026, May 14). Building Bridges, Restoring Trust: Enhancing Collaboration between Spiritual Leaders and Mental Health Professionals through a Psychospiritual Care Competency Training Program [Conference Presentation]. Boston, MA. Global Summit on Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health

Sharp, A. and Bayne, H. (2026 June 8). Building Bridges: Religious and Spiritual Mental Health Training for Behavioral Health Providers and Community Faith Leaders [Conference Presentation]. Online. https://aservic.org/aservic-2025-2026-presidents-welcome/

Stephens, B. A. (2026, October). Theorizing Imagination in Planning: A Typology and Diagnostic Model to Ground Research and Practice. 66th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.acsp.org/page/ConfAllAbout2026

Stephens, B. A. (2026, November). Combating zombie social change organizations: Introducing a framework for intentional ephemerality. 2026 Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. https://www.arnova.org/

Stephens, B. A., Moore, D., Farzaneh, A., Firouzi, A., Stephenson, M. O., Schnitzer, M., Morikawa, A., Hunter, M. & Ferguson, H. (2026, November). Intentionally Normalizing Mutual Learning in Cross-Sector Collaborations: Lessons from Engagement Ready Roanoke. 2026 Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. https://www.arnova.org/

Stephens, B. and Stephenson, M. Jr. (2026, July). The not-so-secret ingredient: How trust enables community capacity [Conference abstract]. International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.istr.org/page/ISTR2026

Stephens, B., Stephenson, M. Jr., & Farzaneh, A. (2026, May 1). More engagement, more problems? How community engagement efforts may both facilitate and undermine trust development [Conference abstract]. International Conference on Urban Affairs (ICUA), Chicago, IL. https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/

Otruba, A. (2026, March 27-29). Emotional Ecologies of Violent Infrastructure in Georgia's Abandoned Soviet Spas [Panel Discussion]. Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH. https://slaviccenter.osu.edu/about/conferences/midwest-slavic

Articles

Fateminasab, S., & Moayerian, N. (2025). Designing sustainable public spaces using design justice framework: a case study in Southern Iran. Local Environment, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2447747

Firouzi, A. (2025). Zoroastrianism in Yazd Reflections on the Right to the City and Politics of Cultural Identity. In S. Yadollahi (Ed.), Conservation Theory and the Urban Realpolitik (pp. 61-80). Berlin, Boston: Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035628630-004

Horn, K. (2025). Pets as friends? Absolutely! Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/navigating-socialterrain/202501/pets-as-friends-absolutely

Panahi, M., & Moayerian, N. (2025). Seeds of Resilience: How Social Capital Cultivates Community Strength in Environmental Crisis Management. Journal of Environmental Management (Q1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124937.

Sehat, H., Goudarzi, C., & Heshmat, M. (2025). A call for environmental justice: Saving Lake Urmia. In R. Rocco & C. Newton (Eds.). A manifesto for the just city (Vol. 4, pp. 154–157). TU Delft OPEN Publishing. https://doi.org/10.59490/mg.142.

Stephenson, M., Jr., Panahi, M., & Moayerian, N. (2025). Phronetic Planning’s Janus Face: Charting Elite Advantage in Tehran’s Land Use Decisions. Land, 14(1), 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010127.

Books

The Politics of Alterity and the Syrian Displacement Crisis: The Cases of Malta and Cyprus. (2025). Max Stephenson Jr., Yannis Stivachtis, and Neda Moayerian, eds. Berghahn Books: Oxford, England.

Book Reviews

Otruba, A. (2025). Review of El-Taliawi, Ola G, The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South. HDiplo, H-Net Reviews. https://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61362.

Conference Papers and Presentations

Akinwunmi, O., (2025, June 5-7). Perceptions of Services Offered by the Department of Social Services Facilities Across Virginia [paper presentation]. Social Equity Leadership Conference, Rockville, Maryland. https://napawash.org/events/2025-social-equity-leadership-conference.

Alhadyan, S., (2025, April 11-13). Overcoming Barriers: Transportation and Employment Access for Syrian Refugees in Mafraq City, Jordan [paper presentation]. 8th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning, Amherst, Massachusetts. https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/fabos/.

Bailey, S. (2025, June 19). Virginia Economic Update [conference presentation]. 2025 Virginia Local Government Management Association Summer State Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia. https://www.vlgma.org/summer.

Bakshi, Y. (2025, March 2-5). Do Frameworks Travel? Limitations in Application of Water Governance Frameworks in the Global South [paper presentation]. International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois. https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2025.

Briceño-Mosquera., A. & Rodriguez., C. (2025, April 7-9). Emotional Labor and Administrative Burdens in a Behavioral Health Setting in Virginia [paper presentation]. International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Bologna, Italy. https://www.irspm.org/conferences/conference2025.

Farzaneh, A., Stephens, B., & Stephenson, Jr., M. (2025, March 24-28). Navigating the Boundaries of Imaginaries and exploring their Interactions in Urban Development [paper presentation]. American Association of Geographers annual national Conference, Detroit, Michigan. https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/.

Hagaman, A., Warren, H., Kidd, M., Barbour, T., Nagle, L., Foster, K., Hanlon, A., Horn, K., & Pack, R. (2025). The Central Appalachian Peer Partnership Longitudinal Data Registry [poster]. National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science, Virtual, April 23-24.

Rodriguez, C. (2025, April 24). Best Practices in Interpretation Services for Latine Communities in Need of Behavioral Health Services [conference presentation]. Shenandoah Valley Regional Mental Health Conference, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Rodriguez, C. (2025, June 12-13). Understanding the Use of Interpreters in Mental Health Settings. National Council for Interpreters in Healthcare. Eva P. Stitt Behavioral Health Interpreting Seminar. Virtual

Rodriguez, C. (2025). Bridging Language Barriers in (Mental) Health Services. International MiM2M Delphi Study.

Sharp, A.M. (2025, February 7-9). Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and the Environment: Ecology as Fertile Ground for Dialogue in the Middle East? [paper presentation]. Christopher Newport University, Exploring the Middle East: Dynamics, Challenges, and Perspectives, Newport News, VA. https://cnu.edu/eme/.

Stephens, B. (2025, June 18-20). The Materiality of Trust: Proposing a Typology of Objects in Trust Relationships [paper presentation]. 2025 International Network on Trust (FINT) Conference, Genoa, Italy.https://fintweb.org/fint-2025-genoa-italy/.

Stephens, B. & Lim, T. (2025, April 16-19). What even is “youth-centered,’ ‘trauma-informed’ Community Planning: An exploration of how magic concepts operate in urban spaces [paper presentation]. 2025 International Conference on Urban Affairs, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/.

Stephens, B., Nagle, L., & Olumide-Oyaniyi, M. (2025, May 1-2). Awareness and Outreach: Campus and Community [panel discussion]. 2nd Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications, Washington, D.C.

Stephens, B. & Lim, T. (2025, April 16-19). What even is “youth-centered,’ ‘trauma-informed’ Community Planning: An exploration of how magic concepts operate in urban spaces [paper presentation]. 2025 International Conference on Urban Affairs, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/.

Stephens, B., Nagle, L., & Olumide-Oyaniyi, M. (2025, May 1-2). Awareness and Outreach: Campus and Community [panel discussion]. 2nd Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications, Washington, D.C.

Stephenson, Jr., M., Moayerian, N., & Stephens, B. (2025, April 14-16). Learning From the Calfee Training School: Exploring One Nonprofit’s Efforts to Reimagine a Historically Black School While Iterating Democratic Norms [paper presentation]. International Conference of Innovations as Sites of Social Resistance and Transformation in Times of Crisis, Montreal, Canada. https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/crises/en/colloque-international-2025.

Taylor, L., Dunkenberger, M.B., & Medeiros, B (2025, October). Engagement for Collective Impact to Address the Addiction Crisis. Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Roanoke, VA. October 2025

Walters, A. (2025, March 29). Project Management for the Accidental Project Manager. [Presentation]. American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference, Washington D.C.

IPG Research and Policy Briefs

Nagle, L., Moore, D., Wohlford, S., & Burks, R. (2025, January 15). The Intersection of Community Health Needs Assessments and Climate Resilience: A Focus on Heat Illness. https://sway.cloud.microsoft/c7KONRnql1nlaB5i? ref=Link.

Taylor, L., Dunkenberger, M.B., & Hoflund, A.B. (2025, April 15). Drug Checking Services as a Harm Reduction Measure. https://sway.cloud.microsoft/yBFhaelTEAGNoeNz?ref=Link.

Briceno Mosquera, A., & Moore, D. (2025, July 15). The Role of Third Parties in Overcoming Administrative Burdens to Accessing Public Services. https://sway.cloud.microsoft/s5SVHre4qc0DqVtm?ref=Link.

Articles

Alhadyan, S., AlRahahleh, M., & Khwaileh, M. (2024). A Tactical Urbanism and Economic Inclusivity: Evaluating the Impact of Spacena Project in a Marginalized Urban Area. Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2024.v8n2-4

Dearfield, C., Ulfers, M., Horn, K., & Bernat, D. (2024). Resident support for the federally mandated smoke-free rule in public housing: 2018–2022. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(1), 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010102

Edwards, G.F., III, Mierisch, C., Mutcheson, B., Strauss, A., Coleman, K., Horn, K., & Parker, S. (2024). Developing medical simulations for opioid overdose response training: A qualitative analysis of narratives from responders to overdoses. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0294626. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294626

Gosink, E. (2024). Resurgence as a Method to Overcome the Abyssal Line: Challenging Notions of Epistemology and Ontology. Community Change, 6(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v6i1.a.64.

Guerra, V., Stephenson, M.O., Poets, D., & Todd, M. (2024). The contributions of community-led newspapers to the resilience of Rio’s Maré and Rocinha favelas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2357707

Horn, K., Mathis, S., Nagle, L., Dunkenberger, M.B., Hagaman, A., & Pack, R. (2024). Is peer support a tipping point for the opioid use disorder crisis in Appalachia? Research holds the answer. Harm Reduction Journal, 21(122). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954- 024-01041-7

Mosquera, A. B. (2024). Learning, Compliance, and Psychological Burdens when Undocumented Youth Claim In-State Tuition Policy. Research in Higher Education, 65, 230–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-023-09749-4

Nurani, S.H. (2024). Decolonization in Goa: Past, Process, and Present. Community Change, 6(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v6i1.a.65 31

Otruba, A. (2024, November 21-24). ‘Dangerous Waters': Emotional Ecologies of Dampness and Displacement in Georgia [conference presentation]. Association for Slavic, East European, and European Studies, Boston, Massachusetts. https://aseees.org/convention/2024-convention/.

Owusu-Brown, B. & Nketiah-Amponsah, E. (2024). Property status and wife beating justification in Ghana: an integrated theoretical approach. SN Social Science 4, 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00812-6

Poets, D., Stephenson, M.O., & Zanotti, L. (2024). Decolonization/Decoloniality, Entangled Ontologies: Old Debates and New Directions. Community Change, 6(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v6i1.a.63

Stephens, B., Stephenson, C., & Stephenson, M. O. (2024). The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space. MetroPolitics. https://metropolitics.org/TheBlack-Radical-Imagination-in-a-Rural-Forgotten-Space.html

Stephenson, M.O. & Moayerian, N. (2024). Plus ca Change: The Politics of Alterity, and Italian and Maltese Responses to Recent Migration Challenges. Athens Journal of Politics and International Affairs. https://www.athensjournals.gr/politics/2025-1-2-1-Stephenson.pdf

Stephenson, M.O. & Moayerian, N. (2024). Storytelling, Performing Arts, and Collective Capacity in One Rio Favela. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 19(1), 75-95. doi:10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v19i01/75- 95 32

Stephenson Jr., M., Niewolny, K., Zanotti, L., and Erwin, A. (2024) Editorial: Critical praxis and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 8:1487397. DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1487397.

Thorne, C. (2024). The Role of Culture in Decolonization: Close Readings of Fanon, Cabral, and Nandy. Community Change, 6(1): 3. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v6i1.a.66

Books

Horn, K. (2024). Friends Matter, For Life: Harnessing the 8 tenets of dynamic friendship. Amplify Publishing.

Violent Infrastructures: Protracted Displacement and Housing (In)Justice in the South Caucasus and Beyond. (2024). Ariel Otruba, Max Stephenson Jr., Yannis Stivachtis and Nino Dzotsenidze, eds. Virginia Tech Publishing: Blacksburg, VA.

Book Reviews

Guerra, V. (2024). Review: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Cities, Urban Processes, and Policies, by GonzálezPérez, Jesús M., Clara Irazábal, and Rubén C. Lois-González, eds. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X241252039

Meselhy, A. & Malkawi, A. T. (2024). Book Review: Bloomer, Kent C., et al. Body, Memory, and Architecture. Community Change, 5(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v5i1.a.49

Conference Papers and Presentations

Bakshi, Y. (2024, November 21-23). Towards Menstrual Health Equity: Advocating for Policy Change in the United States. [conference presentation]. Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, Washington, DC. https://www.appam.org/.

Bendfeldt, E., Niewolny, K., Stephenson, M.O., Archibald, T., & Stewart, A. (2024, June 5-8). The Ecotonal Nature of Community Food Work: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Care and Mutual Aid for Social and Health Equity [conference presentation]. Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society Conference, Syracuse, New York.

Guerra, V., Grimes, C., & Stephenson, M.O. (2024, April 24-27). From Crisis to Empowerment: The Role of Community-led Solutions Journalism in Maré and Rocinha Favelas Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic [conference presentation]. International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Rodriguez, C. (2024, July 24). Addressing Language-Based Inequities in Public Funded Organizations [conference presentation]. Institute for Diversity Certification. Virtual.

Rodriguez, C. (2024, November 21). Best Practices in Interpretation Services for Latine Communities in Need of Behavioral Health Services. National Hispani/Latino Behavioral Health Center of Excellence.

Stephens, B. (2024, August 19–23). Trust, Control, and Vulnerability: A Heuristic Model for Understanding These Connected Concepts [paper presentation]. GOVTRUST Summer School, Antwerp, Belgium. https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/govtrust-summerschool/.

Stephens, B. & Bakshi, Y. (2024, April 24-27). Trust: Exploring Why Urban Researchers and Institutions Should Care [conference presentation]. International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, New York.

Stephens, B. & Bakshi, Y. (2024, November 20-23). Revisiting Trust in Nonprofit Organizations: Introducing a Multidirectional Network Approach [paper presentation]. 53rd Annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference, Washington, DC.

Stephenson, Jr., M., Moayerian, N., & Stephens, B. (2024, July 16-19). Revisiting the Social Role of Radical Imagination Amidst Widespread Democratic Erosion [conference presentation]. International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Antwerp, Belgium. https://www.istr.org/page/ISTR2024.

Books

Stephenson, M. O. Jr. & Y. Stivachtis, eds. (2023). Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States: National and Institutional Perspectives. Bristol, U.K.: E-International Relations.

Stephenson, M.O. Jr. & C. Grimes, eds. (2023). Conversations in Community Change: More Voices from the Field. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/113728

Stephenson, M.O. Jr. & L. Kirakosyan, eds. (2023). RE: Reflections and Explorations: Volume 3. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/113727

Book Chapters

Abbadi, R., M. Karaki & M.O. Stephenson Jr. (2023). Investigating Refugee Agency Amidst Widespread Popular, Political and Economic Discrimination and Alienation. Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States: National and Institutional Perspectives. Bristol, U.K.: E-International Relations.

Stephenson, M.O. Jr. & N. Moayerian. (2023). UNHCR, National Policies and the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon and Jordan. Policy and Politics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Eastern Mediterranean States: National and Institutional Perspectives. Bristol, U.K.: E-International Relations.

Edited Journal Volumes

Stephenson, M. O. Jr., Niewolny, K., Zanotti, L., & A. Erwin. eds. (2023). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, “Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems,” 14 articles.

Articles

Bucklen, E. (2023). Book Review: Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Community Change, 4(2), 2. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.46

Dearfield, C., Choi, K., Vivino, A., Horn, K., Ahluwalia, J., Crandell, I., Bernat, E., & Bernat, D. (2023). Are excluding e-cigarettes a loophole in the smokefree public housing rule? Preventive Medicine Reports, 31, 102069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.102069

Dunkenberger, M.B., Moore, D., Nagle, L. & Rasoul, S. (2023). Building a Recovery Ecosystem for the Catawba Region. Richmond Public Interest Law Review, 27(1). https://scholarship.richmond.edu/pilr/vol27/iss1/5 

Joseph, L., Stephenson, M.O., Zanotti, L., & Ricot, S. (2023). Sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty in Haiti: sharing knowledge and shaping understanding of food systems at the University of Fondwa. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1230763

Kelinsky-Jones, L., Niewolny, K., & Stephenson, M.O. (2023). Building Agroecological Traction: Engaging Discourse, the Imaginary, and Critical Praxis for Food System Transformation. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1128430

Kwitny, M. et al. (2023). People of a Pandemic. Community Change 4(2): 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.51

Mamshai, F. (2023). Climate Change as a 'Threat Multiplier:' Security and Communal Implications for Iraq. Community Change, 4(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.41

Moayerian, N., Poets, D., Stephenson, M.O., & Grimes, C. (2023). The Arts and Individual and Collective Agency: A Brazilian Favela Case Study. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 10(4), 58-80. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1407

Moayerian, N., Stephenson, M.O., Jr. Abu Karaki, M., & R. Abbadi. (2023). Exploring Syrian refugees’ access to medical and social support services using a traumainformed analytic framework. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032031

Mosquera, A.B. (2023). Admissions Officers' Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy. Educational Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048231201789

Mosquera, A.B. (2023). "They asked for more, more and more paperwork": Administrative Burdens When Undocumented Youth Claim In-State Resident Tuition Policy Benefits. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737231182672

Phutane, A. (2023). Communication of Uncertainty in AI Regulations. Community Change, 4(2), 3.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.50

Poets, D., Grimes, C., Stephenson, M.O., Jr., Moayerian, N., & M. Todd. (2023). Carebased community communication, capacity, and agency during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Complexo da Maré Favela, Brazil. World Development Perspectives, 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2023.100508

Schupp, J. (2023). International Organizations and Transnational Initiatives: Vital Pieces in Peace Education. Community Change, 4(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.42

Stephenson, M.O. & Zanotti, L. (2023). Reflections on Bordering, Micropolitics and Everyday life in Peacebuilding Processes: Revisiting the Lingering Legacy of the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Qeios. https://www.qeios.com/read/H0XJGO

Conference Papers and Presentations

Bendfeldt, E., Niewolny, K., Stephenson, M.O., Jr., Archibald, T. & A. Stewart. "The Ecotonal Nature of Community Food Work: A Case Study of Trauma-Informed Care and Mutual Aid for Social and Health Equity." 2023 Joint Annual Conference of: The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), Society for the Anthropology of Food & Nutrition (SAFN), Boston, Massachusetts, May 31-June 3.

Dunkenberger, M.B., Nagle, L., & Taylor, L. (2023, November 9-12). Building a Connection to Care: Community-Engaged Evaluation for Policy and Product Development [conference presentation]. AEA 2023, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Moayerian, N., Stephenson, M.O., Jr. Poets, D., & C. Grimes. (2023). "Storytelling, Performing Arts and Collective Capacity in One Rio Favela." Annual Conference of The International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 15-18.

Nagle, L., Flora, M., & Taylor, L. (2023, October 8-11). The Peer Empowered Addiction Recovery Living Recovery Housing and SUD Treatment Program for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Lessons Learned and Photovoice Study [conference presentation]. 2023 National Alliance for Recovery Residences Best Practices Summit, Dearborn, MI.

Stephenson, M.O., Jr., Moayerian, N., Guerra, V., & D. Poets. (2023). "Countering Persistent Alterity: Fostering Advocacy and Agency." 15th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Toronto, Canada, May 29-31.

Articles

Moayerian, N., McGehee, N. G., & M.O. Stephenson, Jr. (2022). Community cultural development: Exploring the connections between collective art making, capacity building and sustainable community-based tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 93, 103355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103355

Moayerian, N., Nagle, L., & M.O. Stephenson, Jr. (2022). Conceptualizing crosssectoral partnership building in two small Central Appalachian towns. Community Development Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsac012

Morshedzadeh, E., Dunkenberger, M. B., Nagle, L., Ghasemi, S., York, L., & K. Horn. (2022). Tapping into community expertise: stakeholder engagement in the design process. Policy Design and Practice, 5(4), 529–549. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2022.2157130

Todd, M. F., Grimes, C., Moayerian, N., Poets, D., & M.O. Stephenson, Jr. (2022). Reflections on a cross-border collaborative research effort during COVID-19. Community Change, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.21061/cc.v4i1.a.37

Book Chapters

Stephenson, M.O. Jr., Nagle, L., & N. Moayerian. (2022). Arts, Culture and Community Building in Rural Virginia. Vibrant Virginia: Engaging the Commonwealth to Expand Economic Vitality. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing.

Conference Papers and Presentations

Dunkenberger, M.B., Nagle, L., & Taylor, L. (2022). Building a Connection to Care: Community-Engaged Evaluation for Policy and Product Development [poster]. American Evaluation Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 9-12.

Moayerian, N., Nagle, L, & Stephenson, M. (2022). Conceptualizing cross-sectoral partnership building in two small central Appalachian towns. Community Development Journal. doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsac012

Morshedzadeh, E., Dunkenberger, M.B., Nagle, L., Ghasemi, S., York, L., & Horn, K. (2022). Community Participation in the Design Process for Innovative Solutions: The Connection to Care (C2C) Project. Policy Design and Practice. doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2022.2157130 

Stephenson, M.O. Jr., Moayerian, N., Abbadi, R., & M. Karaki. (2022). “Exploring Syrian Refugees' Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma Informed Analytic Framework.” 14th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Migration Studies.

Stephenson, M.O. Jr., Moayerian, N., Poets, D., & C. Grimes. (2022). “Community Cultural Development and Collective Agency in a Brazilian Favela.” International Society for Third Sector Research Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Stephenson, M., Nagle, L., & Moayerian, N. (2022). Arts, Culture and Community Building in Rural Virginia. Margaret Cowell and Sarah Lyon Hill, eds. Vibrant Virginia: Engaging the Commonwealth to Expand Economic Vitality. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. 

Books

Conversations in Community Change: Voices from the Field. Editor with Cathy Grimes. With Introduction, Foreword, Afterword and Index, 250 pages. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021. ISBN: EPUB 978-1-949373-40-0; Paperback, 978-1-949373-38-7; PDF 978- 949373-39-4.

Maré from the Inside: Arts, Culture and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Editor with Nicholas Barnes and Desiree Poets. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021. Paperback 978-1- 949373-54-7; PDF978-1-949373-55-4.

Maré de DentroA exposição | Favelas do Rio de Janeiro | Complexo da Maré | Policiamento no Rio de Janeiro, Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021. 

Conference Papers and Presentations

Dunkenberger, M.B., Jones, M., Comer, N., Nagle, L. (2021). Facilitating the Creation of More, and More Diverse, Recovery Housing Options in the Roanoke Valley and Beyond [presentation]. American Planning Association, Virginia Chapter Annual Conference: “Innovation in Planning!” Roanoke, VA, October 20-22. 

Dunkenberger, M.B., Nagle, L., Moore, D. & Hairston, C. (2021). TAP Swiftstart Two-Generation Workforce Development Program: Model and Evaluation Findings Workshop [presentation]. Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) 2021 Conference: “Creating Connections and Expanding Possibilities,” Virtual, September 13-15. 

“Community Newspapers, Creative Production and Collective Agency Amidst the COIV-19 Pandemic: Exploring Social Resilience in the Maré and Rocinha Favelas of Rio de Janeiro,” Presented at the 14th International Conference (Virtual) of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Montreal, Canada, July 12-15, 2021. Presented On-Line, July 12, 2021. With Vanessa Guerra, Molly Todd and Desiree Poets.

“Community Foodwork and Extension Education: Applying a Trauma-Informed Framework,” for 2021 Joint Annual Conference of: The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), Society for the Anthropology of Food & Nutrition (SAFN), June 9-15, 2021. Presented on June 15, 2021. With Eric Bendfeldt, Kim Nielwolny, Tom Archibald and Anne Stewart.

“Tacit Knowledge, Cultural Values and Agential Possibility in Rural Haiti,” Presented at the Research Meeting “Local Synergy: University Research Participating in the Dynamics of Development,” University of Fondwa, Haiti, May 28, 2021. With Laura Zanotti.

“Exploring The Expression and Practice of Collective Agency Among Rio De Janeiro Favela Residents During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Contesting And (Re)Framing the Dominant National Narrative Through Community-Based Newspapers.” Presented at the 78th annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2021, Chicago, Illinois, April 14-18, 2021. With Desiree Poets and Cathy Grimes

Stephenson, M. O., Lipsey, B. A., Nagle, L., Moayerian, N. (2020). Community Social Polarization and Change: Evidence from Three Recent Studies. World, 1 (1), 20-33.

Stephenson, M.O., Abbadi, R., Abu Karaki, M. (2020). Investigating Refugee Agency Amidst Government’s Political and Economic Policies [presentation]. ” Joint Conference on Refugees: Status, Policies and Prospects, Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs and Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an. Canceled due to COVID-19. 

Books

Fragile Foundations and Enduring Challenges: Essays on Democratic Politics and Governance, 124 essays. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-949373-09-7 (PDF), ISBN: 978-1-949373-08-0 (epub), ISBN: 978-1-949373-07-3 (paperback), 560 pp.  

Conference Papers and Presentations

Nagle, L., Moayerian, N., Stephenson, M. O. (2019). Cross-Sectoral Partnership Building in Two Appalachian Towns [presentation]. 42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, AppalachA’ville, Asheville, NC, March 14-17, 2019. 

Stephenson, M.O (2019). Diplomacy and Everyday Life: Exploring the Complexities of Peacebuilding on the Seventieth Anniversary of the 1949 Armistice Agreements [presentation].  “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace Conference,” International Studies Association, Kent, Ohio, October 24-26, 2019.

Stephenson, M.O., Zanotti, L (2019). Tacit Knowledge, Cultural Values and Democratic Mobilization in Rural Haiti,” for the 77th Annual Midwest Political Science Association annual conference, April 4-7, 2019, Chicago, Illinois. With Laura Zanotti.

“Pondering Grassroots Development Initiatives: Evidence from Haiti and Jamaica” for 13th Biannual conference, International Society for Third Sector Research, July 10-13, 2018, 22 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With Laura Zanotti.

“Exploring the Connections between Community Cultural Development and Sustainable Tourism in Appalachia,” for the 41st Appalachian Studies Association conference, April 5-8, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio. With Neda Moayerian.

“Local Development Committee Implications for Governance and Development: Evidence from Haiti and Jamaica,” for the International Studies Association 59th annual meeting, April 4-7, 2018. San Francisco, California. With Laura Zanotti.

“Policy Recommendations for ‘Democratizing the Refugee Regime Complex,’ International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy,” at Akademie für Politische Bildung, March 20- 25, 2018. Tutzing, Germany. With Emily Barry-Murphy. 

Conference Papers and Presentations

“A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of On-Farm Apprentices: Social Movement Participation and Farmworker Identities,” research poster for Advancing the Human Condition Symposium, Virginia Tech, November 29-December 1, 2017. Blacksburg, Virginia. With Lorien MacAuley, Kim Niewolny, Kwame Harrison and Thomas Archibald.

“Community Voices: Shared Governance and Dialogue to Challenge Hidden Assumptions and Disrupt Power Structures in Appalachia,” discussant/panel convener for Appalachian Studies Association, March 9-12, 2017, Blacksburg, VA. Presenters: Lorien MacAuley, Anna Erwin, Jeremy Elliott-Engel, Lydeana Martin.

Reports

A community development update: Pennington Gap, VA. (2017). Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance (IPG) and the Virginia Tech Of ice of Economic Development (OED).