Publications

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Augsberger, A., Young, A., Toraif, N., Morris, M., & Barnett, K. G. (2023). Youth engagement to achieve health equity: Are healthcare organizations and leaders prepared?. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12656

2. Eschmann, R., Thompson, J., & Toraif, N. (2022). Tweeting Towards Transformation: Prison Abolition and Criminal Justice Reform in 140 Characters. Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12503

3. Augsberger, A., Toraif, N., Young, A., Dimitri, N., Pierre, J., Bautista, R., Le, C., Idahor, O., Sprague Martinez, L., & Gergen-Barnett, K. (2022). COVID-19 shines a light on health inequities in communities of color: A youth-driven photovoice inquiry. The Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22866

4. Toraif, N., Augsberger, A., Young, A., Murillo, H., Bautista, R., Garcia, S., ... & Gergen Barnett, K. (2021). How to be an antiracist: Youth of color’s critical perspectives on antiracism in a youth participatory action research context. Journal of Adolescent Research, 36(5), 467-500.

5. Augsberger, A., Zeitlin, W., Rao, T., Weisberg, D., & Toraif, N. (2020). Examining a Child Welfare Parenting Intervention for Parents With Intellectual Disabilities. Research on Social Work Practice, 31(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731520958489

6. Eschmann, R., Groshek, J., Li, S., Toraif, N., & Thompson, J. G. (2020). Bigger than sports: Identity politics, Colin Kaepernick, and concession making in# BoycottNike. Computers in Human Behavior, 114, 106583.

7. Zeitlin, W., Augsberger, A., Rao, T., Weisberg, D., & Toraif, N. (2020). Measuring Parenting Skills: Validating the Skills Assessment for Parents with Intellectual Disability. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 18(2), 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1830909

8. Augsberger, A., Toraif, N., Springwater, J., Hilliard-Koshinsky, G., & Sprague Martinez, L. (2020). Strategies for engaging current and former foster care youth in policy advocacy: Lessons from the New England Youth Coalition. Child Welfare, 97(6), 251-270.

9. Salazar, R.D., Ren, X., Ellis, T.D., Toraif, N., Barthelemy, O.J., Neargarder, S., & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2017). Dual tasking in Parkinson’s disease: Cognitive consequences while walking. Neuropsychology, 31(6), 613-623.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
and Encyclopedia Entries

1. Toraif, N., & Mueller, J. (2023). Abolitionist Social Work. In Oxford Handbook of Social Work. Oxford University Press.

2. Toraif, N., & Mueller, J. (in press 2023). Making Policing Obsolete: The Harms of Policing and An Abolitionist Social Work Response. In Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating our Present, Re-Imagining our Future. Oxford University Press.

1. Eschmann, R., Grundy,S., Harbaugh, A., Guo, L., Toraif, N., & Groshek, J. (revise and resubmit). Digital Rage: Testing the “Obama Effect” on Internet-based Expressions of Racism.

2. Toraif, N., Gondal, N., Paudel, P., & Frisella, A. (revise and resubmit). From Colorblind to Systemic Racism: Emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd.

Manuscripts Under Review

Manuscripts in Preparation

1. Toraif, N., Sprague-Martinez, L.S., Rajabiun, S. Bundled public health interventions for reentry: Lessons learned from a program for Black women with HIV in reentry.

2. Toraif, N. Examining Youth Pathways into the Massachusetts Juvenile Legal System from the Child Welfare System: Youth, Social Worker, and Attorney Perspectives.

3. Toraif, N. Black, Indigenous, and Youth of Color in Reentry: Factors Associated with Positive Reentry Experiences.

4. Toraif, N. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black and Latinx Dually-Involved Girls Experiences with the Child Welfare and Juvenile Legal System.

5. Toraif, N., Barnert, E.S, & Abrams, L. Transition Age Youths’ Conceptualizations of Health and Healthiness During Reentry in the COVID-19 Era.

6. Reed, T., Abrams, L., Bondoc, C., Toraif, N., Vilchez, J., & Barnert, E. Perspectives of Black and Latinx Young Adults on Probation on the 2020 Black Lives Matter Movement.

7. Young, A.N., Toraif, N., Augsberger, A., Murillo, H., & Gergen-Barnett, K. Facing Power: Navigating Power Dynamics in a Youth Participatory Action Research Project Situated within a Healthcare Setting.

8. Toraif, N., & Young, A.N. Teaching, Learning, and Bridging: Examining Graduate Student Researchers’ Roles in Youth Participatory Action Research Projects.

9. Toraif, N., & Mueller, J. Racing time: Integrating synchronic racial temporalities into Ecological Systems Theory and research with Black, Indigenous, and Youth of Color.