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Appendix B: Biographical Information for Workshop Presenters and Discussants
Pages 81-90

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... Her research interrogates historical racial violence, with a particular focus on the people who were victimized and the contemporary consequences of racial terror. To further this work, she has created multiple datasets using archival data.
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From page 82...
... Courtney Boen is assistant professor and Axilrod faculty fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a research associate in the Penn Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center; a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics; and an affiliate in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration.
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From page 83...
... His research agenda currently consists of four broad, overarching themes focusing on legal aid and access to social justice, as well as how laws, regulations, and federal interventions influence individuals' economic outcomes from marginalized communities. He was a recipient of the R ­ ackham Merit Fellowship and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver N ­ ational Institute in Child Health and Development Fellowship.
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From page 84...
... She has conducted public health research in laboratory and ­community-based set­ tings, ranging from investigations using biomedical models to health impact assessments and evaluation of community interventions. Givens received a Ph.D.
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From page 85...
... Specifically, Hicken exam­ ines the interactive roles of historical and contemporary racial residential segregation, and social and toxicant exposures on contemporary population health inequities. Further­more, she links these exposures to health through potential biological mechanisms, including DNA methylation and other biomarkers, and examines the interactive role of social and genetic risk on population health.
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From page 86...
... She is interested broadly in the social determinants and conse­ quences of population health and health disparities in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of structural racism in racial/ethnic health disparities. Lee's work examines the impact of family member incarceration on the health of family members, the association between racialized chronic stress and mental/physical health, the trends in racial/ ethnic health disparities, and the role of histories of racial violence in ­racial/ethnic health disparities.
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From page 87...
... A former president of the National Economic Association and member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of the Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, Logan is currently codirector of the American Economic Association's Mentoring Program and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. His current research focuses on racial inequality and economic history.
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From page 88...
... Sanders was research director of the first Census research data center at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked with restricted-use Census data throughout his career, including current work on the Core Longitudinal Infrastructure Population Project, which is developing methods to link historical Census data to contemporary Census data and administrative records.
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From page 89...
... Takeuchi received the Legacy Award from the Family Research ­Consortium for his research and mentoring and the Innovations Award from the N­ ational Center on Health and Health Disparities for his research contributions. He received the University of Washington 2011 M ­ arsha Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award, the Leonard Pearlin Award for Dis­ tinguished Contributions of the Sociological Study of Health, and the American Sociological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Asian American Communities.
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