Research

Updated 1/14/26. Full CV available here.

Peer-reviewed articles

Binder, A., Kidder, J. L., & Cooper, Z. 2025. Sometimes Contentious Curricula: The Frame Alignments of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Programs Run by Libertarian Scholars. The Sociological Quarterly, 0(0): 1–21. Link

Kidder, J. L., Binder, A. J., & Cooper, Z. 2025. “We don’t fit at all”: The symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Link

Kidder, J. L., Binder, A. J., & Cooper, Z. 2025. “Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding.” Qualitative Sociology, 48(1):51–72. Link

Cooper, Z., Binder, A. J., and Kidder, J. L. 2024. “Keeping Libertarianism Alive in the Academy: Organizations, Scholars, and the Idea Pipeline.” Socius. Link

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Binder, A.J., Kidder, J.L., & Sztykowski, Z. 2022. The Conservative Channel: Pulled Outside from the Right. In Amy Binder and Jeffrey Kidder (main authors), The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Link

Preparing for submission

Cooper, Z. “Beyond the paycheck: why upwardly mobile Gen Zs invest.” Target: American Sociological Review. Manuscript available upon request.

Scruggs, J. & Cooper, Z. “The propagation and enactment of contentious frames toward work, at work.” Target: Academy of Management Review. Manuscript available upon request.

Cooper, Z., Binder, A.J., & Kidder, J.L. “Ideological heterogeneity in professional fields: How misfit can reinforce professional identification.” Target: Organization Science. Manuscript available upon request.

Working papers

Cooper, Z. “Economic uncertainty as an identity barrier: the case of Gen Z’s work engagement.”