Publications

Julia C. Lerch and Francisco O. Ramirez. Forthcoming. “Global Liberalism and Women’s Rights.” In Tanja A. Börzel, Johannes Gerschewski, and Michael Zürn (eds). The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Conceptions, Components, and Tensions. Oxford University Press, pp. 322-352.

Minju Choi and Julia C. Lerch. 2024. “Portrayal of Immigrants and Refugees in Textbooks Worldwide, 1963-2011.” International Sociology. 39(4): 399-421.

Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer. 2024. “The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960-2022.” American Sociological Review. 89(1): 88-125. [Open Access]

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Julia C. Lerch. 2024. “The Changing Meaning of Saving Lives: Cultural Understandings of Humanity in United Nations humanitarian resolutions, 1946-2018.” European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 11(1), 67-100.

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Julia C. Lerch. 2023. “How Global Institutions Matter: Education for All and the Rise of Education as a Humanitarian Response.” Comparative Education Review. 67(2): 251-276.

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Evan Schofer, Julia C. Lerch, and John W. Meyer. 2022. “Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education in the 21st Century.” Minerva. 60: 509-534. [Open Access]

Julia C. Lerch, Patricia Bromley, and John W. Meyer. 2022. “Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and its Expansive Educational Effects.” International Journal of Sociology. 52(2): 97- 127.

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Julia C. Lerch, Evan Schofer, David John Frank, Wesley Longhofer, Francisco O. Ramirez, Christine Min Wotipka, and Kristopher Velasco. 2022. “Women’s participation and challenges to the liberal script: A global perspective.” International Sociology 37(3): 305-329.

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Mike Zapp and Julia C. Lerch. 2020. “Imagining the World – Conceptions and Determinants of Internationalization in Higher Education Curricula Worldwide.” Sociology of Education. 93(4): 372-392. [Open Access]

Julia C. Lerch. 2019. “INGO Memberships Revisited: Local Variation of Receptor Sites in the Education Sector.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 60(3): 117-139.

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Jeremy D. Jiménez and Julia C. Lerch. 2019. “Waves of Diversity: Depictions of Marginalized Groups and their Rights in Social Science Textbooks, 1900-2013.” Comparative Education Review. 63(2): 166-188.

S. Garnett Russell, Julia C. Lerch, and Christine Min Wotipka. 2018. “The Making of a Human Rights Issue: A Cross-National Analysis of Gender-Based Violence in Textbooks, 1950-2011.” Gender and Society 32(5): 713-738.

Julia C. Lerch and Elizabeth Buckner. 2018. “From Education for Peace to Education in Conflict: Changes in UNESCO Discourse, 1945-2015.” Globalisation, Societies, and Education 16(1): 27-48.

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Patricia Bromley and Julia C. Lerch. 2018. “Human Rights as Cultural Globalization: The Rise of Human Rights in Textbooks, 1890-2013.” In Eckhardt Fuchs, ed., Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 345-356.

Julia C. Lerch, S. Garnett Russell, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 2017. “Wither the Nation-State? A Comparative Analysis of Nationalism in Textbooks.” Social Forces 96(1): 153-180.

Julia C. Lerch, Patricia Bromley, Francisco O. Ramirez, and John W. Meyer. 2017. “The Rise of Individual Agency in Conceptions of Society: Textbooks Worldwide, 1950-2011.” International Sociology 32(1): 38-60.

Jeremy D.Jiménez, Julia C. Lerch, and Patricia Bromley. 2017. “Education for Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development: Content in Social Science Textbooks.” European Journal of Education 52(4): 460-476.

Julia C. Lerch. 2016. “Embracing Diversity? Textbook Narratives in Countries with a Legacy of Internal Armed Conflict (1950 to 2011).” In D. Bentrovato, K. V. Korostelina, and M. Schulze, eds, History Can Bite ‒ History Education in Divided and Post-War Societies. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 31-43. [Open Access]

Francisco O. Ramirez, John W. Meyer, and Julia C. Lerch. 2016. “World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy.” In K. Mundy, A. Green, R. Lingard, and A. Verger, eds, The Handbook of Global Education Policy. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 43-63.