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Nancy Krieger: COVID-19, structural racism, embodied histories, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions

On April 23, 2021, Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will present "TBD" as part of the Carolina Population Center's 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.

CANCELED: Michael H. Esposito: Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course Examples

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for the spring semester. On August 27, 2021, Michael H. Esposito, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, will present "Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course … Read more

Colloquium: Alexis Dennis, UNC Sociology Odum Award Winner

Racial Differences in the Influence of Socioeconomic Resources on Depressive Symptomatology across the Early Life Course. Prior scholarship documents that having more socioeconomic resources is associated with better mental health. Yet, accumulating work shows that Black Americans do not consistently … Read more

Mark Hayward: Understanding Recent Trends in Dementia Prevalence for Older Black and White Americans

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

On September 10, 2021, Mark Hayward, Professor of Sociology and the director of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin, will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Dr. Hayward … Read more

Rebecca Kreitzer: Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

On September 17, 2021, Rebecca Kreitzer, Associate Professor of Public Policy and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts" as part of … Read more

Thomas McDade: Biosocial 2.0: Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

On October 1, 2021, Thom McDade, a biological anthropologist and the Director of the Laboratory for Human Biology Research at Northwestern University, will present "Biosocial 2.0:  Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences" as … Read more

Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson and Peter Fallesen: Longer lives, Later Births: Generational Overlap in Denmark and the U.S.

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

On October 8, 2021, Marcy Carlson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Fallesen (Rockwool Foundation and Stockholm University) will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Carlson’s primary research interests … Read more