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Tawa, J. & Tauriac, J.J. (2017). Teaching power beyond Black and White: Recognizing and working with student resistance in diverse classrooms. In E. Pinderhughes, P. Romney, & V. Jackson (Eds.). Understanding Power: A Human Service Imperative. Washington D.C.: National Association of Social Work Press.
Tawa, J., Ma, R., & Katsumoto, S. (2016). 鈥淎ll lives matter:鈥 The cost of colorblind racial attitudes in diverse social networks. Race and Social Problems, 8 (2), 196 - 208.
Tawa, J., Negr贸n, R., Suyemoto, K.L. & Carter, A.S. (2015). The effects of resource competition on Blacks鈥, Asians鈥, and Whites鈥 social distances: A virtual world method. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (6), 761 鈥 777.
Edmonds, F., Thorner, S., Clarke, M., Clarke, K., Rogers, K., Rogers, R., Turner, O., Chenhall, R., Mahoney, M., Leane, J., Croom, A., Senior, K. (2025). Mela Mijimit, Dalimbat Mela Stori (We Together, We Telling Our Story)1: Exploring a Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge 鈥 A Work in Progress 鈥rchives & Manuscripts 510, p. e11043. doi: 10.37683/asa.v52.11043.
Clarke, Maree, Mahoney, Mitch, Thorner, Sabra, and Edmonds, Fran (2025). Trees as Living Archives. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 25(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2025.2513094.
Thorner, S. (2024) Together with co-editors Frances Edmonds and Maree Clarke, Assistant Professor Sabra Thorner has a brand new book out. ngargee // coming together to celebrate: Southeast Australian Aboriginal Art is a field-defining volume celebrating contemporary artists, intercultural collaborations, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Thorner, S. (2023) 鈥淚ndigenous Media: Currents of Engagement鈥 (with K. Dowell and G. Zamorano). In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.
Thorner, S. (2022) 鈥淏ringing a Living Archive to Life.鈥 Pursuit (online magazine of the University of Melbourne). With F. Edmonds and J. Leane. Available: .
Thorner, S. 2022. "Being Called to Action: Contemporary Museum Ethnographies." (Author of this introductory article and Guest Editor of Special Issue) Materiality, Belonging, and the Activation of Difference, Special Issue of Museum Anthropology 45(1). Online/Early view. DOI: 10.1111/muan.12243.
Thorner, S. (2020) 鈥淭he Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art,鈥 (a photo-essay, with M. Clarke). AnthroVision, the online journal of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA), Volume 8, Issue 1, Paolo Favero, ed. Launched August 31, 2022; available: .