Publications

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Henning-Smith, Carrie, Alexis Swendener, Katie Rydberg, Megan Lahr, and Hawking Yam. 2023. “Rural/Urban Differences in Receipt of Governmental Rental Assistance: Relationship to Health and Disability.” Journal of Rural Health (online first). doi: 10.1111/jrh.12800.

Henning-Smith, Carrie, Alexis Swendener, Hannah MacDougall, and Megan Lahr. 2023. “Multi-Sector Collaboration to Support Rural Aging.” Public Policy & Aging Report 33(3):101-104. doi: 10.1093/ppar/prad012. 

Swendener, Alexis. 2021. “Misery Loves Company? Linkages Between Actual vs. Desired Couple Work Arrangements and Women’s Mental Health.” Community, Work, & Family 24(2):173-192.

Smyth, Jolene, Alexis Swendener, and Emily Kazyak. 2018. “Women’s Work? The Relationship between Farm Work and Gender Self-Perception.” Rural Sociology 83(3):654-676.

​Jochman, Joseph, Alexis Swendener, Julia McQuillan, and Luke Novack. 2018. “Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, and Science Identity Framed by Religious and Political Perspectives in the United States?”  The Sociological Quarterly 59(4):584-602.

​Swendener, Alexis and Brandi Woodell. 2017. “Predictors of Family Support and Well-Being Among Black and Latina/o Sexual Minorities.” Journal of GLBT Family Studies 13(4):357-379.​

​Swendener, Alexis. 2017. “Examining Inequalities in Science Literacy by Religious Affiliation among Adults.”  The Nebraska Educator 4:47-63.

Tyler, Kimberly A., Lisa A. Kort-Butler, and Alexis Swendener. 2014. “The Effect of Victimization, Mental Health, and Protective Factors on Crime and Illicit Drug Use among Homeless Young Adults.” Violence and Victims 29(2):348-362.

Swendener, Alexis, Jonathan Schroeder, and Carrie Henning-Smith. 2024. “Rural-Urban Differences in Housing Cost Burden in the U.S.” University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Policy Brief.

Yam, Hawking, Alexis Swendener, Mariana Tuttle, Madeleine Pick, and Carrie Henning-Smith. Forthcoming 2024. “Rural/Urban Differences in Housing Quality: Findings from the American Housing Survey.” University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Policy Brief.

Swendener, Alexis, Madeleine Pick, Megan Lahr, Hawking Yam, and Carrie Henning-Smith. 2023. “Housing Quality by Disability, Race, Ethnicity, and Rural-Urban Location: Findings from the American Community Survey.” University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Policy Brief.

Media coverage/interviews:

The Daily Yonder & MinnPost

Henning‐Smith, Carrie, Mariana Tuttle, Alexis Swendener, Megan Lahr, and Hawking Yam. 2023. “Differences in Residential Stability by Rural/Urban Location and Socio-Demographic Characteristics.” University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Policy Brief.

Swendener, Alexis, Katie Rydberg, Mariana Tuttle, Hawking Yam, and Carrie Henning-Smith. 2023. “Crowded Housing and Housing Cost Burden by Disability, Race, Ethnicity, and Rural-Urban Location.” University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center Policy Brief.