Patricia Homan

Biography

Patricia (Trish) Homan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Public Health Program at Florida State University. She is also an associate of FSU’s Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and the Center for Demography and Population Health. Her research focuses on developing theory and measurement for structural sexism, structural racism, and other forms of structural oppression, and examining how these forces shape health in the United States. Her work has been published in American Sociological Review, Demography, American Journal of Public Health, The Milbank Quarterly, Health Affairs, Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, The Gerontologist, and The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, among other outlets. Her research has won multiple national awards including the 2022 NIH Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Award, the 2022 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from SWS South, the 2021 ASA Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Article Award, and the 2019 Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, Duke University 2018
M.A. in Sociology, Duke University 2016
A.B. in Sociology, Princeton University 2005

Professional Experience

Visiting Scholar, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 2023-2025

Associate Director, Public Health Program, Florida State University, 2021-2023

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 2018-2023

Selected Publications

Homan, Patricia. (2019) “Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System.” American Sociological Review 84(3):486–516.https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122419848723

Garcia, Marc A., Patricia A. Homan, Catherine García, and Tyson H. Brown. (2020). “The Color of COVID-19: Structural Racism and the Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Older Black and Latinx Adults.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B76(3):s75-e80 doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa114.

Homan, Patricia and Amy Burdette. (2021). “When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations.” American Sociological Review 86(2): 234-255. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122421996686

Homan, Patricia, Tyson Brown and Brittany King*. (2021). “Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62(3): 350-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465211032947

Everett, Bethany, Aubrey Limburg*, Patricia Homan, and Morgan Philbin. (2022). “Structural Heteropatriarchy and Birth Outcomes among Women in the United States.” Demography. 59(1): 89-110. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9606030

Brown, Tyson and Patricia Homan. (2023) “The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers.” The Milbank Quarterly. 101(S1):36–60. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12641.

Homan, Patricia. Forthcoming. “Health Consequences of Structural Sexism: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical Evidence and Priorities for Future Research.” Social Science & Medicine.