Publications

Recreating the Circle: A Collective Vision for Radical African Healing in Community

Grills, C., Aird, E., Auguste, E., Adibu, F., Bethea, S., Endale, T., Haggins, K., Mendenhall, R., Zakiya Newland, L.Z., Primm, A., and Spates, K.

American Psychologist

Behind Closed Doors: Distress, Trauma, Weathering and Resilience Black Mothers Keeping their Peace

Henderson, L., Mendenhall, R. and Lee, M.

Star Scholars Press

Designing a Community Health Worker (CHW) Certificate Training that Centers Marginalized Youth's Health and Wellness

Mendenhall, R., Butler-DeLong, T., Lee, M.J., Langford, K.

Journal of Community Medicine and Health Solutions

The Souls of Black Women: Quiet as a Form of Resistance, Resiliency, and Self-Care

Mendenhall, R., Allen, T.N., Butler, L., Covington, L, and Lee, M.

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (under review)

Environmental Racial Microaggressions, Habitus, and Enduring Social Structures: Predicaments at a Predominantly White University

Mendenhall, R., Gutierrez, V., Harwood, S., Huntt, M.B., and Lewis, J.

Race Ethnicity and Education (under review)

Death and Grief in the Lives of Chicago Youth of Color: The Mental Health Costs of Gun Violence in a 'Hidden America'

Mendenhall, R., Lee, M., Butler DeLong, T., White, B., Jones, C., and Diesen, T.

Violence and Victims (under review)

The Missing Millions: Fostering a Computer Science Identity Among Black and Brown Middle and High School Students

Mendenhall, R., Lee, M., Adibu, F., Meux, A., De Venecia, M., Garada, F., Robinson, A., Thomson, D.

Education Technology Research & Development (under review)

Bowman the Alchemist: Transforming Students' Souls and Lives in the Fire

Mendenhall, R. (Director, Editor and Producer), Lee, M. (Editor and Artist), Baker, A. (Videographer)

Artificial Intelligence, Social Responsibility, and the Roles of the University.

Bosch, N. Chan, A.S., Davis, J.L., Gutiérrez, R., Davis, J.L., He, J., Karahalios, K., Koyejo, S., Loui, M.C., Mendenhall, R., Sanfilippo, M.R., Tong, H., Varshney, L.R., and Wang

Communications of the ACM (Opinion: Monthly Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery)., 67(98)

The Neighborhood as Social Exposome: Black Mothers' Narratives of Chronic Stress as a Consequence of Living in Racially Hypersegregated Neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago

Ruby Mendenhall, Rebecca L. Morrow, Kristen L. Ethier, Meggan J Lee

Family Medicine and Primary Care: Open Access

What's Left Behind? Documentary Film

Mendenhall, R. (Co-Director and Producer and Writer), Butler, L. (Co-Director and Producer and Writer), Collins, J. (Creative Director and Writer)

Unruly: Black Women, Hair, Embodiment and Resistance

Mendenhall, R.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Responsibility, and the Roles of the University

Bosch, N., Chan, A.S., Davis, J.L., Gutierrez, R., He, J., Karahalios, K., Koyejo, S., Loui, M.C., Mendenhall, R., Sanfilippo, M.R., Tong, H., Varshney, L.R., Wang, Y.

Communications of the ACM

Commentary: Black Mothers in Racially Segregated Neighborhoods Embodying Structural Violence: PTSD and Depressive Symptoms on the South Side of Chicago

Henderson, L., Mendenhall, R., Lee, M.J.

Journal of Mental Health & Clinical Psychology

Seven Million Tweets of Violence: Gendered Analysis of Black Women Representation on Social Media Platforms

Brown, N.M., Odilinye, L., Mendenhall, R., Sarr, F., Adibu, F.

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Black Mothers in Racially Segregated Neighborhoods Embodying Structural Violence: PTSD and Depressive Symptoms on the South Side of Chicago

Mendenhall, R., Lee, M.J., Cole, Morrow, R., Rodriguez-Zas, S., Henderson, L., Turi, K.N., Greenlee, A.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Realizing the Promise of Disaggregated Data and Analytics for Social Justice Through Community Engagement and Intersectoral Research Partnerships

Kaida, A., Anderson, J., Barnard, C., et al., Mendenhall, R., et al.

Engaged Scholar Journal

Lessons (Not) Learned: Chicago Death Inequities during the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemics

Mendenhall, R., Shin, J.C., Adibu, F., Lea, Yago, M., Vandwalle, R., Greenlee, A., Grigsby-Toussaint, D.S.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Educating Latinx and African American Students in Charter Schools: A Comparative Study from Chicago

Bu, Q., Mendenhall, R.

Education and Urban Society

Communal Conversations: Black Women World-Making Through Mentorship

Brown, N.M., Mendenhall, R.

Qualitative Inquiry

Transcriptomic Analyses of Black Women in High Violence Neighborhoods and the Hypothalamic Pituitary Axis

Lee, M.J., Rittschof, C.C., Greenlee, A., Turi, K.N., Rodriguez-Zas, S., Robinson, G.E., Cole, S.W., Mendenhall, R.

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Its the Subtle Things That Shape Our Education: The Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Sense of Belonging at a Predominantly White University

Lewis, J., Mendenhall, R., Ojiemwen, A., Thomas, M., Rippole, C., Harwood, S., Huntt, M.B.

American Behavioral Scientist

Trauma Over the Life Course for Black Mothers in Chicago: Understanding Conditions, Meaning making and Resiliency

Mendenhall, R., Ethier, K., Lee, M., Overton, K., Houser, S., Robert, C.

Family Medicine and Primary Care

Benefits of Recurring Tax Credit Payments, Lessons from the Chicago EITC Periodic Payment Pilot and Implications for Illinois

Bellisle, D., Andrade, F., Kramer, K., Mendenhall, R. and Greenlee, A.J.

Strategic Plan for a Geospatial Software Institute (GSI)

Wang, S. and Geospatial Fellowship Team

The Pieces of Me: The Double Bind of Race and Gender in Engineering

Cross, K., Mendenhall, R., Clancy, K., Imoukhuede, P., Amos, J.

Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Reprint: The Medicalization of Poverty in the Lives of Low-Income Black Mothers and Children (Chinese translation)

Mendenhall, R.

Angle Publishing Co, LTD Taipei: Taiwan

Involving Urban Low-Income Single African American Mothers in Genomic Research: Giving Voice to How Place Matters in Health Disparities and Prevention Strategies

Mendenhall, R., Henderson, L., Scott, B., Butler, L., Turi, K.N., Robinson, G.E., Roberts, B.W., Rodriguez-Zas, S., Brooks, J.E., Lleras, C.L.

Family Medicine and Primary Care

If You Arent White, Asian or Indian, You Arent an Engineer: Racial Microaggressions in STEM Education

Lee, M., Collins, J., Harwood, S., Mendenhall, R., Huntt, M.B.

International Journal of STEM Education

Theres Realizing, and Then Theres Realizing: How Social Support Can Counter Gaslighting of Women of Color Scientists

Rodrigues, M.A., Mendenhall, R., Clancy, K.B.H.

International Journal of STEM Education

Community Healing Through Storytelling as a Therapeutic Response to Racial Trauma

Chioneso, N.A., Hunter, C.D., Gobin, R.L., Smith, S.M., Neville, H.A., Mendenhall, R.

The Journal of Black Psychology

Financial Instability in the Earned Income Tax Credit Program: Can Advanced Periodic Payments Ameliorate Systemic Stressors?

Greenlee, A., Kramer, K., Andrade, F., Mendenhall, R.

Urban Affairs Review

Creating a Culture of STEAM Innovation Using Human-Centered Design

Mendenhall, R., Switzky, R., Carter, S. et al.

Asian International Students and Asian American Students: Mistaken Identity and Racial Microaggressions

Yeo, H.T., Harwood, S., Mendenhall, R., Huntt, M.B.

Journal of International Students

Mixed Methods for Studies that Address Broad and Enduring Issues in Education Research

Albro, E., Bueschel, A., Cobb, P., Duncan, G.J., Eccles, J., Eisenhart, M., Mendenhall, R., Moss, P., Penuel, W., Ream, R.K., Rumbaut, R.G., Sloane, F., Weis, L.

Teachers College Record

Impact of the Chicago Earned Income Tax Periodic Payment Intervention on Food Security

Andrade, F.C.D., Kramer, K., Greenlee, A., Williams, A.N., Mendenhall, R.

Preventive Medicine Reports

In search of Zora/When Metadata Isnt Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women through Statistical Modeling

Brown, N.M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M.L., Van Moer, M., Lourentzou, I., Flynn, K., McKee, M., Zerai, A., Zhai, C.

Journal of Library Metadata

Community Engagement and Citizen Scientists: Innovation and the Land Grant Mission at the University of Illinois

Mendenhall, R., Burke, M., Teran-Garcia, M., Goodpaster, L., Li, K., Cohen, N. and Gallagher, D.

Periodic Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Payment, Financial Stress and Wellbeing: An Intervention Study

Kramer, K., Greenlee, A., Andrade, F., Mendenhall, R.

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Michelle Obama and Black Women as Alchemist (poem)

Mendenhall, R.

Michelle Obama's Impact on African American Women and Girls. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

The Intersecting Identities of Women in Engineering

Cross, K.J., Amos, J.R., Imoukhuede, P., Clancy, K.B.H., Mendenhall, R., and Cromley, J.G.

American Society Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE) Conference Proceedings

The Medicalization of Poverty in the Lives of Low-Income Black Mothers and Children

Mendenhall, R.

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Low- and Moderate-Income Families Pathways to Social Mobility: Overcoming Threats to Asset Accumulation and Remaining in Desirable Neighborhoods

Mendenhall, R., Kramer, K., Bellisle, D.

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Everyday Racism in Integrated Spaces: Mapping the Experiences of Students of Color at a Diversifying Predominantly White Institution

Harwood, S.A., Mendenhall, R., Lee, S., Riopelle, C., Huntt, M.B.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

African American Mothers Parenting in the Midst of Violence and Fear: Finding Meaning and Transcendence

Mendenhall, R., Henderson, L., Scott, R.

Learning How to BREATHE: Toward a Model for Black Womens Mental Health (SUNY Press)

Financial Stress and Depressive Symptoms: The Impact of an Intervention of the Chicago Earned Income Tax Periodic Payment

Andrade, F.C.D., Kramer, K.Z., Monk, J.K., Greenlee, A.J., Mendenhall, R.

Public Health

Advanced Computing for Social Change: Educating and Engaging Our Students to Compete in a Changing Workforce

Mendenhall, R., Brown, N.M., Black, M.L., Van Moer, M., Flynn, K., McKee, M., Zerai, A.

PEARC17 Conference Proceedings (Best Workforce Diversity Paper Award)

Chicago African American Mothers Power of Resistance: Designing Spaces of Hope in Global Contexts

Mendenhall, R., Linear, T.I., McKee, M., Lamers, N.A., Mouawad, M.B.

The Power of Resistance: Culture, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Global Contexts (Emerald Press)

The Potential of Big Data in Rescuing and Recovering Black Womens Contributions to the Du Bois-Atlanta School and to American Sociology

Mendenhall, R., Brown, N.M., Black, M.L.

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center: Black Feminisms Contributions to Combatting Erasure within the Digital Humanities

Brown, N.M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M.L., Van Moer, M., Zerai, A., Flynn, K.

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Aint I a Woman?: Perceived Gendered Racial Microaggressions among African American Women College Students

Lewis, J.A., Mendenhall, R., Harwood, S., Huntt, M.B.

The Counseling Psychologist

Racial Microaggression Report to the Provost

Harwood, S., Mendenhall, R., Brown, M.

Is Ethnic Identity a Buffer? Exploring the Relations between Racial Microaggressions and Depressive Symptoms among Asian American Individuals

Choi, S.C., Lewis, J., Harwood, S.A., Mendenhall, R., Huntt, M.B.

Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work

Rescuing Lost History: Using Big Data to Recover Black Women's Lived Experiences from 1746 to 2014

Mendenhall, R., Brown, N.M., Black, M.L., Van Moer, M., Lourentzou, I., Flynn, K., McKee, M., and Zerai, A.

XSEDE16 Conference Proceedings

The Hidden America: The Ripple Effects Black Women and Families Face When Living with and Responding to Structural Inequality and Violence

Henderson, L., Scott, B., Mendenhall, R.

Issues in Race & Society

Examining the Effects of Urban Neighborhoods on the Mental Health of African American Male Adolescents: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Perry, D.M., Tabb, K.M., Mendenhall, R.

Journal of Negro Education

Racial Microaggressions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Voices of Students of Color in the Classroom

Harwood, S.A., Choi, S., Orozco, M., Huntt, M.B., Mendenhall, R.

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

Final Evaluation of the Chicago Earned Income Tax Periodic Payment Pilot

Mendenhall, R., Lemons, R., Andrade, F., Greenlee, A., Kramer, K.Z., Henderson, L., DeStefano, L., Larrison, C., Akresh, I.R. and Franklin, K.

Genomics - Policy and Society (G-PS)

Kesan, J.P., Inda, J., Malhi, R., Mendenhall, R., Paige, K., Roca, A., Rodriguez, L., Rodriguez-Zas, S., and Somaya, D.

Interim Evaluation of the Chicago Earned Income Tax Periodic Payment Pilot

Mendenhall, R., Lemons, R., Larrison, C., DeStefano, L., Kramer, K.Z., Andrade, F., Akresh, I.R., Greenlee, A., Franklin, K. and Henderson, L.

Coping with Racial Microaggressions among Black Women

Lewis, J.A., Mendenhall, R., Harwood, S., Huntt, M.B.

Journal of African American Studies

Asset Accumulation and Housing Cost Burden: Pathways to (Not) Saving

Mendenhall, R., Kramer, K., Akresh, I.

Housing Policy Debate

Single Black Mothers Role Strain and Adaptation across the Life Course

Mendenhall, R., Bowman, P., Zhang, L.

Journal of African American Studies

The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Families

Mendenhall, R., Edin, K., Crowley, S., Sykes, J., Tach, L., Kling, J., Kriz, K.

Social Service Review

Racial Microaggressions in the Residence Halls: Experiences of Students of Color at a Predominantly White University

Harwood, S.A., Huntt, M.B., Mendenhall, R., Lewis, J.

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Rethinking 21st Century Urban Transformations: Race and the Ecology of Violence

Mendenhall, R., Harwood, S., Williams, L., Franklin, K., Turner, L., Marciano, R., Bowman, P., Neville, H., Tynes, B., Sala, K., Ebreo, A., and Grigsby-Toussaint, D.

NSF SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

The Notable and the Null: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Diverse Impacts of Residential Mobility Programs

DeLuca, S., Duncan, G., Keels, M., Mendenhall, R.

Neighborhood Effects: New Perspectives (Springer)

Gautreaux Mothers and their Children: An Update

DeLuca, S., Duncan, G.J., Mendenhall, R., Keels, M.

Housing Policy Debate

The Political Economy of Black Housing: From the Housing Crisis of the Great Migrations to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Mendenhall, R.

The Black Scholar

Investing in Enduring Resources with the Earned Income Tax Credit

Kling, J., Edin, K. and Mendenhall, R.

Ford Foundation/Brookings Institution

Families in the Gautreaux Housing Mobility Program: Perceptions and Responses to the U.S. Political Economy

Mendenhall, R.

The Review of Black Political Economy

Job Loss at Mid-life: Managers and Executives Face the New Risk Economy

Mendenhall, R., Kalil, A., Spindel, L.J., Hart, C.

Social Forces

Job Loss at Mid-life: Managers and Executives Face the 'New Risk Economy'

Mendenhall, R., Kalil, A., Spindel, L.J., and Hart, C.

Social Forces 87(1): 185-210

Neighborhood Resources, Racial Segregation and Economic Mobility: Results from the Gautreaux Program

Mendenhall, R., Duncan, G.J., DeLuca, S.A.

Social Science Research

Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide A Permanent Escape from Neighborhood Segregation, Crime, and Poverty?

Keels, M., Duncan, G.J., DeLuca, S., Mendenhall, R., Rosenbaum, J.E.

Demography

Cultural Modeling as a Frame for Narrative Analysis

Lee, C.D., Rosenfeld, E., Mendenhall, R., Rivers, A., Tynes, B.

Narrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society (Sage Publications)

Inventory of Services in the Grand Boulevard Neighborhood for Families With Preschool Children

Mendenhall, R.

The Ounce of Prevention Fund

The Wells Community Initiative Retrospective Analysis

Mendenhall, R.

The Ounce of Prevention Fund