Michael Branch, PhD

• SOC 100 Survey of General Sociology
• WGSS 175 History of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Global Perspectives to 1500 CE
• WGSS 176 History of Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Global Perspective, 1500 CE to the Present

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Branch, Michael. 2025. “‘It’s On All the Time in Our House’: Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life.” Rural Sociology https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12587.
• Branch, Michael. 2021. “‘The nature of the beast:’ the precariousness of police work.” Policing & Society 31(8):982-996. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1818747.

Books Chapters

• Branch, Michael. Forthcoming. “Cannibals and Chainsaws and Cousins, oh my! Whiteness, ‘White Trash’, and Pollution in Resident Evil 7”. In Race and Ethnicity: The Sociological Mindful Approach. 2nd edition. Edited by Jacqueline Brooks, Heidy Sarabia, and Aya Kimura Ida. Solana Beach, CA: Cognella Publishing.
• Branch, Michael. 2023. “By Any Other Name: The Difficulties of Recognizing Female Police Violence” Pp. 219-231 in The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence, edited by Stacy Banwell, Lynsey Black, Dawn Cecil, Yanyi Djamba, Sitawa Kimuna, Emma Milne, Lizzie Seal, and Eric Tenkorang. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

Manuscripts Under Review

• Branch, Michael. “Deliverance to/from Horror: Haunted Hayrides, Barns of Terror, and the American Rural.” Under review for inclusion in Fright Nights: Live Horror Events.
• Branch, Michael. “In You and I, There’s a New Land: Kingdom Hearts and Possibilities for Queer Worldmaking.” Under review for inclusion in Playing with Magic: Understanding Disney Games.

• Faculty Policy Committee

• Co-Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum Research Interest Group | Rural Sociological Society
• Chair of the Law and Society Division | Society for the Study of Social Problems