Current Appointments & Affiliations
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology
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2023 - Present
Sociology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Sociology
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2022 - Present
Sociology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Conceptualizing and Measuring Systemic Racism.
Journal Article Annual review of public health · April 2025 This article provides a guide for rigorous, theory-driven measurement approaches, proposing best practices for the scientific study of systemic racism in health research. We argue that the analytical crux of measuring systemic racism-a complex, interconnec ... Full text CiteLeft Truncation in the Periviable Period and the Black Survival Advantage.
Journal Article Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · April 2025 BackgroundInfants born in the periviable period show an extremely high risk of infant death. At all gestational ages in the periviable period, non-Hispanic (NH) Black infants counterintuitively show relatively lower infant mortality risk than do N ... Full text CiteA national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis.
Journal Article Scientific data · January 2025 We present a new national data set of historical sundown towns in the United States linked to contemporary spatial information - i.e., the Historical Sundown Towns Linked to US Census Geographies database. Sundown towns are places that once enacted legal o ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
The Health Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment and Foster Care From Adolescence Into Mid-Life
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2027Health disparity of survival advantage: the case of non-Hispanic black preterm births
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Irvine · 2022 - 2026DNA methylation in context: Racial inequities in social adversity and vulnerability to the health impact of air pollution
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Regents of the University of Michigan · 2021 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2009
Ph.D.