On Thursday, February 26 at 3pm, Abigail Sewell from the Department of Sociology at Emory University will present on the racial inequalities in health care. 


Abigail Sewell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Emory University
Race-ing Upstream: The Political Economy of Racial Health Disparities
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 3pm
Ferst Room, Library (7th Floor)

Biography:
Abigail A. Sewell is an Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Department of Sociology and a Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She focuses on the political economy of racial health disparities, the social construction of racial health care disparities, and quantitative approaches for studying racial inequality and structural racism. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Indiana University and her B.A. summa cum laude in Sociology (Minor in Women’s Studies) from the University of Florida. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, the Journal of Negro Education, Race and Real Estate (edited by Valerie A. Smith, Kim Lane Scheppele, and Adrienne Brown) and Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods (edited by John H. Stanfield). Her work has garnered both quantitative and qualitative paper awards and received support through a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, a Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowship, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity (UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law), and a Karl F. Schuessler Graduate Scholarship. She has taught at Indiana University, the University of Mannheim (Germany), and the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for Social Research. 

More information about her can be found at: www.abigailasewell.com
Light refreshments will be provided at the seminar and we are tentatively planning to continue the discussion over food and drinks at a local dining establishment following the talk.

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