Dr. Ashley Kranjac Assistant Professor

Biography

Ashley Wendell Kranjac (Ph.D. 2015, SUNY- Buffalo; Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017, Rice University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. In her research, she seeks to advance scholarship in health inequalities, social stratification, and population studies. She is specifically concerned with investigating whether multifaceted determinants of risk persist after considering the sociodemographic characteristics of individuals and the neighborhoods in which they live, and whether the risks posed by social and environmental conditions are modified by population characteristics. She is also interested in the causes and consequences of neighborhood population characteristics on health risks and disparities. To date, her work has appeared in Social Science & Medicine, Maternal & Child Health, Pediatrics, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, and Contexts.

Research Interest

Sociology