Checker, Melissa, 2014. Anthropological Superheroes and the Consequences of Activist Ethnography. American Anthropologist 116(2): 416–420.

Checker, Melissa, 2012. “Make Us Whole”: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Skepticism. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 23(3):35-51.

Checker, Melissa, 2011. Wiped Out by the “Greenwave”: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability. City and Society 23(2): 210-229.

Checker, Melissa, ed. 2011. “Year that Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11." American Anthropologist 113(3):491-504.

Checker, M. (2009), "Practicing Anthropology: Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts. American Anthropologist, 111(2), 162-169.

">Checker, M. (2008), "Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves: African Diasporic Environmental Justice Movements. Souls 10(4):1-16.

Checker, M. (2007), "But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology. Human Organization. 66(2):112-124.

Checker, M. (2005) From Friend to Foe and Back Again: Industry and Environmental Action in the Urban South. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Special Issue 34(1): 1-38

"Checker, M. (2004), "We All Have Identity at the Table": Negotiating Difference in a Southern African American Environmental Justice NetworkIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11(2):171-194.

Checker, M. (2002), "It's In the Air": Redefining the Environment as a New Metaphor for Old Social Justice Struggles. Human Organization 61(1):94-105.

Checker, M. "(2001), "Like Nixon Coming to China": Finding Common Ground in a Multi-Ethnic Coalition for Environmental Justice">. Anthropological Quarterly 74(3):135-14.