Network Core 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).
CAPS Sexual Minority Network
The CAPS Sexual Minority Population Aging Network brings together a national network of scholars who study aging in Sexual minority (SM) populations, who conduct research on the diverse life course experiences of Sexual minority (SM) populations, and the pathways by which their experiences culminate in advantage and disadvantage at older ages.
Network members stay connected and benefit from:
- Opportunities for pilot funding to jumpstart research projects.
- Grant writing workshops and mock grant interviews.
- Speaker series, topical panels on aging sexual minority populations, and conferences
- Research and data brief series
CAPS Network Affiliate Application Form
Current Network Core Affiliates
D. A. Briley
Associate Head, Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Interests:
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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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Mateo Farnia, 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
Interests:
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Jacqueline Gahagan
Associate Vice-President, Research
Mount Saint Vincent University
Interests:
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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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Ning Hsieh
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
Interests:
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Nik Lampe
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Health Science and Practice
University of South Florida
Interests:
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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
Interests:
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Ilan Myer
Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy
School of Law
University of California Los Angeles
Interests:
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Anna Muraco
Professor, Sociology
Loyola Marymount University
Interests:
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Amanda Pollitt
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Interests:
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Rin Recek
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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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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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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Meredith Zhang
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Cal State LA
Interests: Aging, family, gender and sexuality studies, health disparities
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