Shumate, R. (2021). Barry Goldwater, Distrust in Media, and Conservative Identity: The Perception of Liberal Bias in the News. Latham, MD: Lexington Books.

Shumate, R. (2020). The Thanksgiving Without Cranberries: Anatomy of a News Media Influenced Panic. Southeastern Review of Journalism History 2 (2), 1-20.

Shumate, R. (2020). The Washington Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Newspaper (book review), American Journalism 37 (2), 262.

Shumate, R. (2018).  Elite voices and irritated conservatives: Pathways leading to the perception of liberal media bias arising from elite news media coverage of the emergence of movement conservatism (1960 to 1964). [Doctoral dissertation, University of Florida]

Winner of the 2019 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history by the American Journalism Historians Association.

Shumate, R. (2017). Riot, Race, and Placing Blame: Press Coverage of the 1885 Rock Springs Chinese Massacre. In After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865–1900. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Shumate, R. (Spring 2015). Onward Christian soldiers: How Arkansas political candidates deploy religious texts to motivate voters. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal.

Calvert, C., Shumate, R., McNeff, S., and Waters, S. (February 2017). Speech v. Conduct, Surcharges v. Discounts: Testing the Limits of the First Amendment and Statutory Construction in the Growing Credit Card Quagmire. New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 20 (1) 149-189.

Shumate, R. (Publication in 2022). Wall Street Journal. In Encyclopedia of Journalism. SAGE.

Shumate, R. (Publication in 2022). USA Today. In Encyclopedia of Journalism. SAGE.