Trish Homan, PhD

Biography

Patricia (Trish) Homan, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in Sociology from Duke University in 2018. Dr. Homan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives for the Public Health Program at Florida State University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and a Research Associate for the Center for Demography and Population Health. Her research explores how gender, socioeconomic, and racial inequalities in American society shape the health and well-being of the population and of individuals as they age. Her work has been published in the 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

PhD, Sociology
Duke University, 2018

Master of Arts, Sociology
Duke University 2016

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
Princeton University, 2005

Courses Taught

PHC 4157: Health Policy and Society

SYA 6933: How Inequality Makes Us Sick

SYD 3800: Sociology of Sex and Gender

Awards & Honors

2021               Distinguished Article Award, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section. This award honors those who make a significant contribution to the field of sex and gender through an article or book chapter on the cutting edge of sociological inquiry.

2021                J. Michael Armer Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University.

2019                Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association. Awarded by the Medical Sociology Section for the best dissertation in Medical Sociology.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming    Everett, Bethany, Aubrey Limburg, Patricia Homan, and Morgan Philbin. “Structural Heteropatriarchy and Birth Outcomes among Women in the United States.” Demography.

2021                Homan, Patricia. “Sexism and Health: Advancing Knowledge Through Structural and Intersectional Approaches.” American Journal of Public Health. 111(10). https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306480

2021                Homan, Patricia, Tyson Brown and Brittany King. “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

2021                Homan, Patricia. “Structural Sexism and Life Course Health: Implications for Public Policy.” In Current Issues in Aging and the Life Course: Public Policy. Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London (Eds.). Routledge.

2021                Homan, Patricia and Amy Burdette. “When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations.” American Sociological Review 86(2): 234-255.

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2021                Calisanti, Toni, Dawn Carr, Patricia Homan, Victoria Coan. “Gender Disparities in Life Satisfaction After Retirement: The Roles of Leisure, Family, and Finances” The Gerontologist ,gnab015 https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab015

2020                Garcia, Marc A., Patricia A. Homan, Catherine García, and Tyson H. Brown. “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 B 76(3):s75-e80 doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa114.

2019                Homan, Patricia. “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.

2017               Homan, Patricia. “Political Gender Inequality and Infant Mortality in the United States,1990-2012.” Social Science & Medicine 182:127–35.

2017               Homan, Patricia, Lauren Valentino*, and Emi Weed* (contributions equal). “Being and Becoming Poor: How Cultural Schemas Shape Beliefs About Poverty.” Social Forces 95(3):1023–48.