Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Place and Health, Community Health, Health Inequities
E-Mail:
ecwalton@wisc.edu
Background:
Emily Walton received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington in 2009. Her research challenges common conceptualizations of contextual effects on individual health by investigating residential experiences among diverse racial and ethnic groups. Central to her work is the idea that tests of residential segregation as a fundamental cause of health and disease need to account for growing diversity in the United States. Using both conventional and spatially-derived measures of segregation she examines the health effects of living primarily among others of one’s own racial or ethnic group, with particular attention to understanding how the relationship differs among residentially-segregated Asian and Latino Americans. An overarching goal is to add complexity to the way researchers theorize about race and place as our population continues to be shaped by immigration trends in the 21st century. As a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, Emily will develop her geographic and spatial analysis skills in order to refine both theoretical conceptualization and empirical testing of the ways in which spatial assimilation among racial and ethnic groups with large proportions of immigrants determines the characteristics and effects of segregated neighborhoods on individual health status.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Emily Walton's available publications in PubMed.
