Research

updated July 15, 2025

Peer-reviewed articles

Kidder, Jeffrey L., Amy J. Binder, and Zosia Cooper. “We Don’t Fit At All”: The Symbolic Boundaries of Libertarians Connected to the Academy. Forthcoming at American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

Kidder, Jeffrey L., Amy J. Binder, and Zosia Cooper. 2025. “Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding.” Qualitative Sociology 48(1):51–72. doi: 10.1007/s11133-024-09586-6.

Cooper, Zosia, Amy Binder, and Jeffrey Kidder. 2024. “Keeping Libertarianism Alive in the Academy: Organizations, Scholars, and the Idea Pipeline.” Socius.

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Binder, Amy, Jeffrey Kidder, and Zosia Sztykowski. 2023. 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. University of Chicago Press.

Articles in preparation

Binder, Amy J., Jeffrey L. Kidder, and Zosia Cooper. Carving Out Ideological Space in the Curriculum: The Sometimes Contentious Case of PPEs. R&R at Sociological Quarterly.

Cooper, Zosia, Amy Binder, and Jeffrey Kidder. [Political minorities in the professions.] Under review at Administrative Science Quarterly.

Working papers

Cooper, Zosia. “Gen Zs and the changing face of work centrality.” Manuscript available.

Cooper, Zosia. “How upwardly mobile Gen Zs are driving a trend of early investment.” Manuscript available.