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
A 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 CiteVanishing twins, selection in utero, and infant mortality in the United States.
Journal Article Evolution, medicine, and public health · January 2025 Background and objectivesResearch to identify fetal predictors of infant mortality among singletons born in the United States (US) concludes that poorly understood and unmeasured "confounders" produce a spurious association between fetal size and ... Full text CiteBarriers to neurosurgery for medical students: a national study focused on the intersectionality of gender and race.
Journal Article Journal of neurosurgery · November 2024 ObjectiveDespite 51.2% of medical school graduates being female, only 29.8% of neurosurgery residency applicants are female. Furthermore, only 12.6% of neurosurgery applicants identify as underrepresented in medicine (URM). Evaluating the entry ba ... 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.