Working Papers

email: fweil@lsu.edu
  • Weil, Frederick D., Samantha Ramey, Oliver Garretson, Jiabin Fan, and Alison Qi. 2021. "Racial Differences in Response to Covid-19: Solidarity, Vulnerability, and Social Justice." Paper presented in Plenary session at the Researchers Meeting of the 2022 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 13-14, 2022, Broomfield, Colorado. - Powerpoint here

  • Weil, Frederick D., Oliver Garretson, Jiabin Fan, and Alison Qi. 2021. "Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Anxiety, Isolation, Dispute, and Support." Paper presented at the Researchers Meeting of the 2021 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado. - Powerpoint here

  • Weil, Frederick D., Edward Shihadeh, and Timothy T. Reling. 2019. "Do collective resources reduce the number of Airbnbs in a neighborhood? Evidence from New Orleans." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the 2019 American Sociological Association, New York. - Powerpoint here

  • Post-Hurricane Katrina Research
    • Frederick Weil and Heather Rackin, "The Role of Neighborhood Organizations in Disaster Recovery: Repopulation in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina." Paper presented at the conference, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 8-11, 2020, here.
    • "Can Citizens Affect Urban Policy? Blight Reduction in Post-Katrina New Orleans.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 31, 2012, here.
    • A First Draft Summary of the Research, here.
    • See a separate website, here for working papers and articles, along with fuller description of the work

  • "Party Realignment in America, 1945-2000: An Outline" (Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 2000, Washington, DC) - Pdf version

  • "Diffusion, Nostalgia, and Performance: Democratic Legitimation in Unified Germany" (a version given at a conference at Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, May, 26th - 28th 2000) here

  • "Antisemitism in the Context of Intergroup Relations: A Comparative-Historical View" (A 1983 draft [unfinished] for a large research project.  Includes a summary, a 1983 paper delivered at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association) here
  • "Post-Fascist Liberalism: The Development of Political Tolerance in West Germany since World War II" (My 1981 dissertation) here
  • "Mediations: Critical Theories of Consciousness and Praxis in Lukacs, Horkheimer, and Habermas" (A seminar paper I wrote as a first-year graduate student in 1975! Posted just for fun!) here
  • "The Blueing of White Collars: A Case Study and Discussion of the Class-Position of Clerical Workers" (My undergraduate thesis: 189 pages which included my own survey of 278 clerical workers in four cities in 1973. Also posted just for fun!) here