TYSON BROWN
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 2008
TITLE: Assistant Professor
OFFICE:   203A Garland Hall
EMAIL:   tyson.brown@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7514
CV: TysonBrownCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Pilot Grant (PI).
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College, 2011

NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duke University, 2008-2010

NIH/NIA F31 Fellowship, UNC, 2007-2008

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2007

Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Award, UNC, 2007

AARP Andrus Foundation Scholarship, 2002-2003

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

 Introduction to Social Research
 Racial/Ethnic Relations
 Society and Medicine

 


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical Sociology
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Relations
Life Course and Aging
Stratification
Quantitative Methods

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Intersection of Race, Gender, Class & Age in Health

Race, Immigration and Morbidity Across the Life Course

Race and Wealth Accumulation: The Roles of Income, Inheritance & Discrimination

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Brown, Tyson H and Taylor W. Hargrove. Forthcoming. "Multidimensional Approaches to Examining Gender and Racial/Ethnic Stratification in Health." Women, Gender, and Families of Color.

Brown, Tyson H., Angela M. O'Rand and Daniel E. Adkins. 2012. "Race/Ethnicity and Health Trajectories: Tests of Three Alternative Hypotheses across Multiple Groups and Health Outcomes." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 53 (3):359-377.

Brown, Tyson H. 2012. "The Intersection and Accumulation of Racial and Gender Inequality: Black Women's Wealth Trajectories." The Review of Black Political Economy. 39:239-258.

Warner, David F. and Tyson H. Brown. 2011. “Understanding How Race/Ethnicity and Gender Impact Age-Trajectories of Disability: An Intersectionality Approach.” Social Science and Medicine, 72(8): 1236-1248.

Elder, Glen H. Victor Wong, Naomi Spence, Daniel E. Adkins, and Tyson H. Brown. 2010. “Pathways to the All-Volunteer Military.” Social Science Quarterly, 91(2): 455-475.

Brown, Tyson H. and David F. Warner. 2008.  “Divergent Pathways? A Life Course Study of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Women's Labor Force Withdrawal.”  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 63(3): S122-34.
**Authors listed alphabetically--contribution is equal.

Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Amy M. Pienta and Tyson H. Brown.  2007.  “Women of the 1950s and the 'Normative' Life Course: The Implications of Childlessness, Fertility Timing, and Marital Status for Psychological Well-being in Late Midlife.”  International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 64(4): 299-330.