Identities and Inequalities
The critical role that inequalities due to socioeconomic status (e.g., income, employment, education), race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nativity play in producing health inequalities. Includes a structural approach to understanding the role of racism, sexism, heterosexism, nativism and their intersections (among others).
Recent Publications
Broussard, Kathleen. 2020. “The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care: Embodied Experiences of Structural Stigma in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland” Social Science and Medicine 245, Article 112686, 1-9.
Mann, Emily S. 2022. “The Power of Persuasion: Normative Accountability and Clinicians’ Practices of Contraceptive Counseling.” SSM – Qualitative Research in Health 2:100049. 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100049.
Mann, Emily S., Andrew M. Chen, and Christiana L. Johnson. 2022. “Doctor Knows Best? Provider Bias in the Context of Contraceptive Counseling in the United States.” Contraception 110:66–70. 10.1016/j.contraception.2021.11.009.
Woo, Bongki, Ronald Pitner, and Betty Wilson. 2021. “White College Students’ Racial Prejudice and Perceptions of Racial Hate Crime.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 08862605211062987. doi: 10.1177/08862605211062987.
Woo, Bongki, and Jungmi Jun. 2022. “COVID-19 Racial Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms among Asians Americans: Does Communication about the Incident Matter?” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 24(1):78–85. 10.1007/s10903-021-01167-x.
Current Projects
Transforming UofSC into a National Leader in Health, Inequalities, and Population Research
This project, funded by the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research, seeds four interdisciplinary studies that provide collective insight into the myriad social contexts – interpersonal, family, and clinical settings – that produce and reproduce health inequalities over the life course.
Transmasculine Practices of Reproduction
This project represents the first international study to address the sociological and health care implications of the reproductive practices of people who become pregnant and/or give birth after transitioning.
Faculty
Meeta Banerjee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Pronouns: she/her
Social influences on the developmental trajectories of underrepresented minority youth and families.
Jason Cummings, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
The racialized experiences of the Black middle class and its consequences for physical and mental health
Nicole Hair, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Services Policy and Management
Socioeconomic determinants of health and development and the economic costs of chronic illness and disability.
Andrea Henderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
The religious lives of Black Americans and how religion influences health and well-being in the face of stress, including racial discrimination.
Diego F. Leal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
International migration with an emphasis on migration in the Americas and migration of women. The relational determinants of health.
Emily Mann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Women’s and Gender Studies
The regulation of sexual and reproductive practices across multiple institutional contexts, including health care, education, families, and the state.
Carla Pfeffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Contemporary families, genders, sexualities, and bodies considered marginal, as well as social actors’ management of stigma and discrimination.
Guillermo Wippold, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Pronouns: he/his
Community-based participatory research and health-related quality of life.
Jaclyn Wong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
How positive and negative social relationships shape older adults’ health and wellbeing. The role of gender, marriage, and family relationships on life course health.
Bongki Woo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Social and enviornmental determinants of mental health and well-being of people of color.