Amelia Branigan Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College Park , Maryland 20742
Education:
- Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 2014
- M.A., Sociology, Northwestern University, 2009
- B.A., History and Journalism, New York University, magna cum laude, 2004
Biography:
I am a social demographer with central interests in inequality, health, and the criminal justice system. I currently have three projects ongoing. The first project considers the social consequences of variation in visible phenotype, specifically focusing on body mass and skin color. A second project uses Scandinavian registry data to consider how infertility, defined as the inability to conceive a wanted pregnancy, is associated with differential outcomes in children ultimately conceived. Two new projects consider the interaction between health and the criminal justice system: the first interrogates the association between parental incarceration and child physical health, while the second asks how shifts in spatialized neighborhood violence, operationalized as transitioning gang boundaries in Chicago, affect a range of individual-level and neighborhood-level health and educational outcomes. Studies from these three projects have been published in journals including Demography, Social Forces, and Sociology of Education.