My empirical work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Problems, Poetics, and Adminstrative Science Quarterly. See below.
Selected Publications
2026
Rekenthaler, N. (2026). Looking for Myself: A Qualitative Study of Choice Homophily in Psychotherapy. Social Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725261418324
2025
Rekenthaler, N. & Barnard, A.V. (2025). Chronic, disruptive, or resistant? Target ecologies and the medicalization of homelessness in California. Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae019
*Winner of the 2024 Leonard S. Robins award for the best paper in health politics and policy
2023
Rekenthaler, N. (2023). The “Waves:” Conceptualizing Covid-19 as an event through one (particularly) contested metaphor. Poetics, 99, 101808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101808
2022
Frey, E., Bernstein, E., & Rekenthaler, N. (2022). Scarlet letters: Rehabilitation through transgression transparency and personal narrative control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(4), 968–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392221115154