Refereed Articles

Silber Mohamed, Heather and Erin Heidt-Forsythe. Forthcoming. “Legacies of Mistrust?: Race, Ethnicity, and Public Opinion Toward Reproductive Technologies.” Public Opinion Quarterly. (Accepted August 2021).

Lucas, Jennifer E., and Heather Silber Mohamed. 2021. “Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes towards Descriptive Representation.” American Politics Research. 49(5): 517-533. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X211022620

Holman, Mirya, Podrazik, Erica, and Heather Silber Mohamed. 2020. “Choosing Choice: How Gender and Religiosity Shape Abortion Attitudes among Latinos.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 5(2): 384-411.  https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2019.51

Silber Mohamed, Heather, and Emily M. Farris. 2020. “Bad Hombres? An Examination of Identities in U.S. Media Coverage of Immigration.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46(1): 158-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1574221 

Farris, Emily M. and Heather Silber Mohamed. 2018. “Picturing immigration: how the media criminalizes immigrants.” Politics, Groups, and Identities. 6 (4): 814-824.

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2018. “Embryonic Politics: Attitudes about Abortion, Stem Cell Research, and IVF.”  Politics and Religion. 11(3): 459-497. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175504831800010X. 

Silber Mohamed, Heather and Emily M. Farris. 2017. “Immigration Politics and Policy in the United States.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. L. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press.

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2015. “Americana or Latina? Gender and identity acquisition among Hispanics in the United States.” Politics, Groups, and Identities. 3 (1): pp. 40-58. (Reprinted in Zoe Oxley (ed.) 2016. Gender and Political Psychology. New York: Routledge).

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2013. “Can Protests Make Latinos ‘American’? Identity, Immigration Politics, and the 2006 Marches.” American Politics Research. 41(2): pp. 298-326.  

  • An early version of this paper received the Best Grad Student Paper Award from the Midwest Political Science Association Latino/a Caucus.  
  • My findings from this paper were also featured in the Boston Globe:

“WHAT MAKES IMMIGRANTS start to think of themselves as American? A new study suggests that, oddly, pushing back against American policies is one way that groups cement their identity as belonging to the country. A political scientist from Brown University analyzed the responses of Latinos to a survey that was in progress around the time of the 2006 immigration reform protests. She found that Latinos—particularly Spanish-speakers, Mexicans, and Dominicans for whom the immigration debate was most relevant—were more likely to identify as American after the protests.”

Book Chapters

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2017. “Immigration Reform and the 2014 Midterms: The Politics of Executive Action.” in Chris Galdieri, Tauna Sisco, and Jennifer Lucas (eds).  Races, Reforms, and Policy: Implications of the 2014 Midterm Elections. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, p. 138-149.

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2016. “Americana or Latina? Gender and identity acquisition among Hispanics in the United States.” in Zoe Oxley (ed.) Gender and Political Psychology. New York: Routledge, p. 40-58. (This edited volume is a reprint of the special issue of Politics, Groups and Identities in which my 2015 article of the same title was published.)

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2014. “The Boundaries of American-ness: Perceived Barriers among Latino Subgroups” in Tony Affigne, Marion Orr and Evelyn Hu-DeHart (eds). Latino Politics En Ciencia Política: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness. New York: New York University Press pp. 132-157. 

Non-Refereed Articles

Mueller, Lisa, Heather Silber Mohamed, and Stephanie Slocum-Schaeffer. 2015. “2015 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference and Track Summaries: Teaching Research Methods.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 48 (3): 512-513. (names alphabetical; contributions equal)

Book Reviews

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2020. Book Review: The Turnout Gap: Race ,Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America by Bernard L. Fraga in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.  5 (1): 226-228. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2019.31.

Silber Mohamed, Heather. 2018. Book Review: Contested Transformations: Race, Gender, and Leadership in 21st Century America by Carol Hardy-Fanta, Pei-te Lien, Dianne Pinderhughes, and Christine Marie Sierra in Political Science Quarterly. 133 (2): 381-384.

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