Dr. Deborah A Harris

  • Professor at Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Harris, D. A., Martinez, G. P., Romero, R., & Watt, T. T. (n.d.). Incorporating Community Voices into Data Dashboard Creation: A Case Study of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard. Community Mental Health Journal.

2022

  • Harris, D. A., & Phillips, R. (2022). The South in Your Mouth? Gourmet Biscuit Restaurants, Authenticity, and the Construction of a New Southern Identity. In You Are What You Post: Food and Instagram (pp. 81–93).
  • Harris, D. A. (2022). Women, Work, and Opportunities: From Neoliberal to Feminist Mentoring. Sociology Compass, 16(3).
  • Harris, D. A. (2022). Review of “Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen.” Gender, Work, and Organizations.

2021

  • Harris, D. A. (2021). Five Years Later: Are Women Chefs Still Taking the Heat? In Women in the Kitchen.
  • Harris, D. A. (2021). Review of: The Social Significance of Dining Out. Acta Sociologica. https://doi.org/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0001699320936428
  • Harris, D. A., & Phillips, R. (2021). What’s Better Than a Biscuit?: Gourmetization and the Transformation of a Southern Food Staple. Food & Foodways, 29(3), 243–263.

2020

  • Harris, D. A., & Giuffre, P. (2020). “#MeToo in the Kitchen.” Contexts, 19(2), 22–27.

2019

  • Harris, D. A., & Romero, R. (2019). Race, Four Farms, and a City: Color Blindness and the Austin, TX Commercial Farm Debate. Humanity and Society, 43(3), 227–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597618814880
  • Romero, R., & Harris, D. A. (2019). Who Speaks For (and Feeds) the Community?: Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX Urban Farm Debate. City & Community, 18(4), 1162–1180. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12416

2017

  • Harris, D. A. (2017). Just the ‘Typical College Diet’: How College Students Use Life Stages to Neutralize Stigma from Unhealthy Eating. Symbolic Interaction, 40(4), 523-540.
  • Harris, D. A. (2017). Food, Culture, and Society.

2016

  • Romero, R., & Harris, D. (n.d.). Framing History, Gentrification, and Community in the Austin, TX Urban Farm Debate.

2015

  • Harris, D., & Giuffre, P. (2015). Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Harris, D., Harris, W., & Fondren, K. (2015). Everybody Eats: Using Hunger Banquets to Teach about Issues of Global Hunger and Inequality. Teaching Sociology.
  • Harris, D. A. (2015). You Just Have to Look at It as a Gift:  How Low-Income Single Mothers Manage Uncertainty in Child Support Payments. Journal of Poverty.

2014

  • Harris, D. A., & Jamilatu, Z. (2014). Neo-liberalism and Private Emergency Food Networks. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty.

2011

  • McNiel, J. N., Harris, D. A., & Fondren, K. M. (2011). Women and the Wild: Gender Socialization in Wilderness Recreation Advertising. Gender Issues, 29(1), 39–55.

2010

  • Harris, D. A., & Giuffre, P. (2010). Not One of the Guys: Women Chefs Redefining Gender in the Culinary Industry. Research in the Sociology of Work:  Gender and Sexuality in the Workplace, 20, 59–82.
  • Harris, D. A., & Giuffre, P. (2010). The Price You Pay: How Female Professional Chefs Negotiate Work and Family. Gender Issues, 27, 27–52.

2008

  • Parisi, D., Harris, D. A., Grice, S. M., & Pressgrove, J. (2008). Community Resiliency to BRAC Recommendations: A Case Study of Two Mississippi Communities. Community Development:  Journal of the Community Development Society, 39(4), 95–107.
  • Harris, D. A., & Parisi, D. (2008). Forward-Looking Behavior and Time Limits:  How Do Rural TANF Clients Manage Their Welfare Eligibility? Journal of Poverty, 12(3), 265–283.
  • Harris, D. A., & Parisi, D. (2008). Looking for Mr. Right:  The Viability of Marriage Initiatives for African American Women in Rural Settings. Sociological Spectrum, 28(4), 338–356.
  • Harris, D. A., & Parisi, D. (2008). Welfare and Family Economic Security:  Toward a New Poverty Knowledge. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 35(3), 97–113.

2007

  • Harris, D. A., & Parisi, D. (2007). Adapting Life History Calendars for Qualitative Research on Welfare Transitions. Field Methods, 19(1), 40–58.

2005

  • Parisi, D., Harris, D. A., Grice, S. M., Taquino, M., & Gill, D. A. (2005). Does the Work-First Initiative Make a Difference for Low Income People? Journal of Poverty, 9(1), 65–81.
  • Harris, D. A., & Parisi, D. (2005). Gender Role Ideologies and Marriage Promotion:  State Policy Choices and Recommendations for Improvement. Review of Policy Research, 22(6), 841–858.