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As a scholar of health, aging, and mortality, my work explores different dimensions about how morbidity and mortality vary according to geographic contexts; how life course exposures directly and indirectly drive health disparities through systems of inequality, with particular attention given to processes of selection and attrition, along with how different mechanisms have heterogeneous impacts on health outcomes.
For my productivity in research, the Department of Sociology recently awarded me their Janet R. Hankin Award for exemplary research on illness in health in medical sociology and demography.
In 2026, I received the Graduate Student Paper Award (with Karl Vachuska) from the American Sociological Association's Section on Drugs and Society and the Student Paper Award (with Sara Peters) from the Rural Sociological Society's Population Research Interest Group.
Other Projects (* - Under review):
Cognitive Life Expectancies by Place of Birth*
Exposure to the Stroke Belt and Dementia Risk in Later Life*
Rural Exposure in Early Life and Cognitive Domains*
Life Course Socioeconomic Status and Oldest Old Cognition
Lifetime Marital Trajectories and Cognitive Health in Old Age
Decomposing the Rural-Urban Life Expectancy Gap*
Geographic Differences in Lifespan Inequality in the United States
Racial and Regional Differences in the Rural-Urban Life Expectancy Gap
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