| Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State MM Francis Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 204 | 2014 |
| The price of civil rights: Black lives, white funding, and movement capture MM Francis Law & Society Review 53 (1), 275-309, 2019 | 115 | 2019 |
| Black politics and the neoliberal racial order MC Dawson, MM Francis Public Culture 28 (1), 23-62, 2016 | 115 | 2016 |
| Black Lives Matter in historical perspective MM Francis, L Wright-Rigueur Annual Review of Law and Social Science 17, 441-458, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| The origins of mass incarceration: The racial politics of crime and punishment in the post–civil rights era K Beckett, MM Francis Annual Review of Law and Social Science 16, 433-452, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| The strange fruit of American political development MM Francis Politics, Groups, and Identities 6 (1), 128-137, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Crime and Citizenship: The NAACP's Campaign to End Racial Violence, 1909--1923 MM Francis ProQuest, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
| Can Black Lives Matter within US Democracy? MM Francis The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 699 (1 …, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Movement capture or movement strategy? A critical race history exchange on the beginnings of brown v. board MM Francis, JF Witt Yale JL & Human. 31, 520, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of America MM Francis Souls 13 (1), 46-71, 2011 | 3 | 2011 |
| We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. By Bruce Ackerman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 432 pp. $35.00 hardcover. MM Francis Law & Society Review 50 (3), 804-806, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| The n Camb M Altamirano, K Banting, MC Dawson, MM Francis, P Frymer, ZL Hajnal, ... Political Science & Politics 50 (1), 2017 | | 2017 |
| Race and Violence in American Politics MM Francis University of Washington, 2016 | | 2016 |
| Response to Julie Novkov's review of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State MM Francis Perspectives on Politics 13 (2), 482-483, 2015 | | 2015 |
| Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal. Edited by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 320p … MM Francis Perspectives on Politics 13 (2), 483-485, 2015 | | 2015 |
| Reviews and Responses MM Francis, C Nackenoff, J Novkov PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS 13 (2), 480-486, 2015 | | 2015 |
| Proposed Panel: Black Politics and American Political Development A Tillery, M Francis, L Wright-Rigueur, CM Greer, SC Nunnally 2014 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting, 2013 | | 2013 |
| Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. By John Hagan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 314p. 22.95 paper. M Francis Perspectives on Politics 10 (4), 1075-1076, 2012 | | 2012 |
| The Naacp & the Formation of National Judicial Power in Criminal Law MM Francis APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper, 2012 | | 2012 |
| Woodrow Wilson S Civil Rights MM Francis APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper, 2011 | | 2011 |
