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

Program of the Month Winner, Aug/Sept 2009; Oct 2009; Nov 2009; Dec/Jan 2010; Feb 2010; Aug/Sept 2010; Oct 2010; Nov 2010; Dec/Jan 2011; Feb 2011 Mar 2011. Hank Ingram House, The Commons, Vanderbilt University

Harambee Award, The Dr. Jimmie Lewis Franklin Award for Outstanding Faculty, Administrator, or Staff, Vanderbilt University.

Distinguished Faculty of the Game Award (9/4/08), South Carolina vs. Vanderbilt.

Research Fellow, Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies (VCNS), Vanderbilt University.

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

Race and Racism
Social Psychology
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., Chase L. Lesane-Brown, Emily E. Tanner-Smith, and Marino Bruce. 2010. "Negotiating Boundaries and Bonds: Frequency of Young Children’s Socialization to their Ethnic/Racial Heritage." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology:41(3):457-464.

Brown, Tony N. and Emily E. Tanner-Smith. 2010. "Evaluating the Health Belief Model: A Critical Review of Studies Predicting Mammographic and Pap Screening." Social Theory & Health 8(1):95-125.

Brown, Tony N., Emily E. Tanner-Smith, and Chase L. Lesane-Brown. 2009. "Investigating Whether and When Ethnic/Race Socialization Improves Academic Performance." The Journal of Negro Education78(4):385-404.

Brown, Tony N., Mark K. Akiyama, Ismail K. White, Elizabeth Anderson and Toby Epstein Jayaratne. 2009. "Differentiating Contemporary Racial Prejudice from Old-Fashioned Racial Prejudice." Race and Solcial Problems1(2):97-110.

Brown, Tony N, Marino A. Bruce, Bettina M. Beech, Mario Sims, Sharon B. Wyatt, Herman A. Taylor, David R. Williams, and Errol Crook. 2009. "Social Environmental Stressors, Psychological Factors, and Kidney Disease." Journal of Investigative Medicine57(4):583-589.

Brown, Tony N. 2008. "Race, Racism, and Mental Health: Elaboration of Critical Race Theory's Contribution to the Sociology of Mental Health." Contemporary Justice Review11(1):53-62.