TONY BROWN
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1998
TITLE:  Associate Professor
Editor, American Sociological Review, 2010-2012
OFFICE:   310 Garland Hall
EMAIL:  tony.n.brown@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE: 615-322-7518
CV: TonyBrownCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Minority Investigator: "Improving Pediatricians' Treatment of ADHD" (National Institute of Mental Health. $208,494; 6/1/03-8/31/04.

Minority Investigator: "National Survey of African American Mental Health" (Subcontract from University of Michigan). $34,993; 9/1/01-5/31/02

Who's Who in Social Sciences Higher Education (WWSSHE)

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations
  Introduction to Sociology
  Social Dynamics of Mental Health
  Society and Medicine

GRADUATE:

  Multivariate Analysis I
  Multivariate Analysis II
  Race and Racism


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Racial and Ethnic Relations
Social Psychology
Sociology of Mental Health
Quantitative Methods
Survey Design

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
Communication Patterns in Medical Encounters
Race and Gender Differences in Suicide Rates

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Brown, Tony N. 2008. "Race, Racism, and Mental Health: Elaboration of Critical Race Theory's Contribution to the Sociology of Mental Health." Contemporary Justice Review.11(1):53-62.

Brown, Tony N., Koji Ueno, Carrie L. Smith, Noel S. Austink and Len Bickman. 2007. "Communication Patterns in Medical Encounters for the Treatment of Child Psychosocial Problems: Does Pediatrician-Parent Conconrdance Matter?" Health Communication 21(3):247-256.

Brown, Tony N., Emily E. Tanner-Smith, Chase L. Lesane-Brown, and Michael E. Ezell. 2007. "Child, Parent, and Situational Correlates of Familial Ethnic/Race Socialization." Journal of Marriage and Family 69(1):14-25.

Taylor-Richardson, Kelly D., Craig Anne Heflinger, and Tony N. Brown. 2006. "Experience of Strain Among Types of Caregivers Responsible for Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disorders." Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 14(3):157-168.

Brown, Tony N. and Chase L. Lesane-Brown. 2006. "Race Socialization Messages Across Historical Time." Social Psychology Quarterly 69(2):201-213.

Jayaratne, Toby Epstein, Oscar Ybarra, Jane P. Sheldon, Tony N. Brown, Merle Feldbaum, Carla A. Pfeffer, and Elizabeth M. Petty. 2006. "White Americans Genetic Lay Theories of Race Differences and Sexual Orientation: Their Relationship with Prejudice toward Blacks and Gay Men and Lesbians." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 9(1):77-94.