Professor Sered is the author of seven books, nearly one hundred scholarly articles, and numerous op-eds and shorter articles focusing on women's health, mass incarceration, and a variety of religious issues. Professor Sered's work Women of the Sacred Groves was severely criticized by Okinawan Studies related scholars in a published in issue 54 of the Ryukyuanist. Professor Sered later submitted in issue 55 of the Ryukyuanist.
Books
Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. University of California Press .
Religious healing in Boston : reports from the field, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School,
Religious healing in Boston : body, spirit, community, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School,
Religion and healing in America, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,
Articles
2013 “Criminalized Women and the Healthcare System: The Case for Continuity of Services,” Journal of Correctional Health Care 19: 164-177.
2012 “Criminalized Women and Twelve Step Programs: Addressing Violations of the Law with a Spiritual Cure,” Implicit Religion 15: 37-60.
2011 “Whose Higher Power: Criminalized Women Confront the Twelve Steps,” Feminist Criminology 6 : 308-322.
2011 “Lessons for Women's Health from the Massachusetts Reform: Affordability, Transitions and Choice,” Women’s Health Issues 21: 1-5.
2008 “Holistic Sickening: Breast Cancer and the Discursive Worlds of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners,” Sociology of Health and Illness 30: 616-631.
2005 Threadbare: Holes in America’s Health Care Safety Net, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington DC.
2002 “Healing and Religion: A Jewish Perspective,” Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, special issue “Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and Care of the Patient.”
1999 "'You are a Number, Not a Human Being': Israeli Breast Cancer Patients' Experiences with the Medical Establishment," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13: 223-252.
1999 "Talking about Mikveh Parties, or The Discourse of Status, Hierarchy and Social Control" in Rahel Wasserfall, ed. Women and Water: Niddah and Mikveh in Jewish Cultures, UPNE.
1995 "Rachel's Tomb: The Development of a Cult," Jewish Studies Quarterly 2: pp. 103-148.
1988 "Food and Holiness: Cooking as a Sacred Act Among Middle-Eastern Jewish Women," Anthropological Quarterly, 61: 129-140.
