- Pete Simi and Barbara G. Brents, 2008. ‘An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth.’ pp. 185-202 in David Brotherton and Michael Flynn, eds., Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment, Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231128230
- Barbara G. Brents and Deo Mshigeni, 2004. ‘Terrorism in Context: Race, Religion, Party and Violent Conflict in Zanzibar.‘ The American Sociologist, 35(2):60-74.
- Robert J. Futrell and Barbara G. Brents. 2003. ‘Protest as Terrorism: The Potential for Violent Anti-Nuclear Activism.‘ American Behavioral Scientist. 46(6):745-765 February.
- James David Ballard, Barbara G. Brents and Amanda Dean, 2002. ‘The Oklahoma City bombing and policy agendas in the media.‘ Popular Culture Review, 13(2):89-101 September.
- Barbara G. Brents, 1999. ‘Dale Carnegie, The Carpenters, and Cambodia.‘ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 27(4):435-460 January.
- Barbara G. Brents, 1992. ‘Class Political Organizing and Welfare Capitalism.‘ Critical Sociology, 19(1):69-101.
- J. Craig Jenkins and Barbara G. Brents, 1991. ‘Capitalists and Social Security: What Did They Really Want? A Reply to Amenta and Parikh.‘ American Sociological Review, 56(1):129-132.
- J. Craig Jenkins and Barbara G. Brents, 1989. ‘Social Protest, Hegemonic Competition and Social Reform: The Political Origins of the American Welfare State.‘ American Sociological Review, 54(6):891-909.
- Victoria J. Godino and Barbara G. Brents, 1987. ‘The Many Faces of Sociology: Ambivalence and Conflict in Graduate Education.‘ The American Sociologist, 18(1):53-57.
- Barbara G. Brents, 1986. ‘Policy Intellectuals, Class Struggle and the Construction of Old Age: The Creation of the Social Security Act of 1935.‘ Social Science and Medicine, 23(12):1251-1260.
- Barbara G. Brents, 1984. ‘Capitalism, Corporate Liberalism and Social Policy: The Origins of the Social Security Act of 1935.‘ Mid-American Review of Sociology, 9(1):23-40.


