Social Inequality; Urban Sociology; Homelessness; Social Movements; Social

Fitting Stories: Outreach Worker Strategies for Housing Homeless Clients

Forthcoming. Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson 

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Social Service Workers’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Fair Housing Laws

2016. Jennifer Roark, Jessica Lucero, Curtis Smith & David Parker

Journal of Social Service Research 

Can Atmospheric Temperature Predict Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population (ETSP) Density? A Geographically-aware Multilevel Analysis

2014. Siordia, Carlos, Ernesto Castañeda and Curtis Smith. 

Human Geography

Disparities in Hispanic and non Hispanic Homeless Populations in El Paso, TX

2014. Castañeda, Ernesto, Jonathan Klassen and Curtis Smith. 

​Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.

Reprinted partially in Frankfort-Nachmias,‎ Chava and Anna Leon-Guerrero. 2017. Social Statistics for a Diverse Society. SAGE. Thousand Oaks, CA. pp. 239-243.

Health, Hope, and Human Development: Building Capacity in Public Housing Communities on the U.S.–Mexico border

2013. Mata, Holly, Maria Flores, Ernesto Castañeda, William Medina-Jerez, Josue Lachica, Curtis Smith, and Hector Olvera.

​Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%

2012. Smith, Curtis, Ernesto Castañeda and Josiah Heyman.

​Social Movement Studies

​*Reprinted in Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan, and Brian Doherty. 2014. Occupy! A Global Movement. Routledge: Oxford,

Unearthing aggressive advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography

2018. (under contract) in Boeri and Shukla Ethnography Uncensored.

University of California Press.

Improving Homeless Point-In-Time Counts:

Engagement and the Uncovering of the Marginally Housed

Curtis Smith and Ernesto Castañeda

*Presented at the American Sociological Association annual conference in 2017