Research

Publications

Books

Dating Interrupted: Gender and Courtship during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2027. New York, NY: New York University Press. 

Peer-Reviewed

Kendrick, Sam and Joane Nagel. 2025. "Gender, Climate Change, and the Production of Scientific Knowledge" in Collyer, F.M. (editor) Research Handbook for the Sociology of Knowledge. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Forthcoming.

Kendrick, Sam. 2023. "Courtship, 1950-2000" in Hartenstein, J.L. (editor) Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Kendrick, Sam and Nancy Kepple. 2022. "Scripting Sex in Courtship: Predicting Genital Contact in Date Outcomes.'' Sexuality & Culture. 22:1190-1214. doi: 10.1007/s12119-021-09938-2

Kendrick, Sam and Joane Nagel. 2020. "The Cowboy Scientist Saves the Planet: Hegemonic Masculinity in Cli-Fi Films.'' Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture. 14:5-34.

Presentations and Invited Talks

"Rejecting the Relational Imperative: Women's Dating Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2026, Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. August, New York, NY.

"Dating Interrupted: The Gendered Implications of COVID-19," 2026, Invited Talk, Portland State University. 10 April.

"Unsettling Masculinity: Men's Fractured Responses to Courtship Script Collapse," 2025, Annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. April, Charlotte, NC.

"Sexual Scripts in Unsettled Times: How the Pandemic is Shaping Courtship," 2022, Invited Talk, Close Relationships Interest Group (CRIG), University of Kansas. 06 May.