Faculty Affiliates
Proposals for Pilot Funding
CAPS invites investigators to submit proposals for pilot funding to support research projects for the period from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
Deadline for proposals is January, 9th, 2023.
Additional details can be found on the 2023-2024 Call for Pilot Project Proposals (PDF).
Current Network Core Faculty Affiliates
D. A. Briley
Associate Head, Diversity and Inclusion
Associate Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Toni M. Calasanti
Professor, Department of Sociology
Virginia Tech
Interests: Intersections of age, gender and social inequalities
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Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter
E. Bronson Ingram University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Health Policy
Professor of Law
Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Vanderbilt University
Interests: The effects of public policies on health and family outcomes
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Michelle Eilers
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Texas Tech University
Interests: Gender and sexuality, health and well-being, social psychology, cultural sociology
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Mateo Farina, Co-Director of CAPS Sexual Miniority Network
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Research Lab Director (Academic), Population Research Center
Interests: Life course origins of dementia risk and biological aging, examining health and health disparities across race/ethnic groups, evaluating healthy life expectancies across demographic and geographic groups, how life course pathways look different across contexts, with a growing focus on Latin America.
CAPS Research Themes: Biosocial Processes and Socioeconomic and Institutional Contexts
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Jace Flatt
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Health
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Public Health
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Jacqueline Gahagan
Associate Vice-President, Research
Mount Saint Vincent University
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Lauren Gaydosh
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chappel Hill
Interests: life course determinants of population health disparities from a biosocial perspective
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Nathan Hoffmann
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Emory University
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Ning Hsieh
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
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Nik Lampe
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
University of South Florida
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Wendy Manning
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Dr. Howard E. and Penny Daum Aldrich Distinguished Professor
Bowling Green State University
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Tara McKay
Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
Associate Professor of Health Policy; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Program for LGBTQ Health; Affiliated Faculty, Tennessee Center for Aids Research; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Vanderbilt University
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Gabe H. Miller
Associate Professor, Sociology
Associate Director, Center for the Study of Sexual and Gender Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: Political and policy determinants of health, population health and intersectionality, sexual and gender minority health disparities, racial health disparities
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Ilan Myer
Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy and School of Law
University of California Los Angeles
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Amanda Pollitt
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Northern Arizona University
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Tonia Poteat
Professor, School of Nursing
Research Professor of Global Health
Duke University
Interests: HIV, LGBT health, health equity, intersectional stigma, social determinants of health
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Rin Reczek
Professor, Sociology
The Ohio State University
Interests: Family dynamics and structure; health and well-being in mid- and later-life; sexual minority health and health disparities
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Stephen Russell
Director and Professor, The Sanford School
Arizona State University
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Phillip Schnarrs
Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Co-Director, Center for LGBT Health Research
University of Pittsburgh
Interests: HIV prevention, behavioral and mental health, and the role of early life adversity and stress in shaping these experiences.
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Haoming Song
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Case Western Reserve University
Interests: Family Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Social Demography, Inequality and Stratification, Quantitative and Mixed Methods
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Lawrence Stacey
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
Interests: Gender, Sexuality, Family, Health, Inequality
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Mieke Beth Thomeer
Professor, Department of Sociology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: Aging, Family, Gender, Health, Sexuality
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Debra Umberson, Director of CAPS Sexual Miniority Network
Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology
Principal Investigator and Director of CAPS
Interests: The impact of the social environment on mental and physical health across the life course, with attention to diversity associated with gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual minority status.
CAPS Research Theme: Family and Social Engagement
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Yiwen Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Central Florida
Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Social Inequality and Health; Aging; Family Demography
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Wei Xu
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Social Sciences
Medical College of Wisconsin
Interests: Spatial epidemiology, geographic information systems, health behaviors, neighborhood effects, epigenetics of aging, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, long-term care services
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Meredith Zhang
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Cal State LA
Interests: Aging, family, gender and sexuality studies, health disparities
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