COURTNEY S. THOMAS, PhD Mailing Address: Office: Department of Community Health Sciences Cell:

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1 Updated: February 2016 COURTNEY S. THOMAS, PhD Mailing Address: Office: Department of Community Health Sciences Cell: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Charles E. Young Drive South, C or Los Angeles, California Websites: ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of California President s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2016-present University of California-Los Angeles, Department of Community Health Sciences Faculty Mentors: Gilbert C. Gee & Andrew J. Fuligni Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 2015-present (On Leave) Department of Sociology, African American & Africana Studies Program EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2015 Dissertation: More than Discrimination: The Significance of Race-Based Stress and Racial Identity for the Mental Health of Black Americans. Committee: R. Jay Turner (chair), Laura Carpenter, Tyson Brown, & Kris Marsh M.A. in Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2013 B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, Xavier University of Louisiana, 2010 RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Medical Sociology Race & Ethnicity Stress & Coping Aging & the Life Course Social Psychology Social Mobility Mental Health Quantitative & Qualitative Methods PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Brown, Tyson, Liana Richardson, Taylor Hargrove, and Courtney S. Thomas. Gendered Racial Stratification of Health Trajectories: Integrating Intersectionality and Life Course Perspectives. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Forthcoming. Thomas, Courtney A New Look at the Black Middle Class: Research Trends and Challenges. Sociological Focus 48: Turner, R. Jay, Courtney S. Thomas, & Tyson Brown. Childhood Adversity and Adult Health: Evaluating Intervening Mechanisms. Social Science & Medicine. Forthcoming. PAPERS UNDER SUBMISSION Thomas, Courtney S. Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: The Significance of Social Class Discrimination. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Thomas, Courtney S. Higher Education and Stress: Implications for Black-White Disparities in Pregnancy. Revise and resubmit at Du Bois Review. Thomas, Courtney S., Ryon J. Cobb, & Heather Collins-Farmer*. The Stress of Representation: Mental Health Consequences of Racial Composition across Contexts. Revise and resubmit at Social Currents. Cobb, Ryon J., Courtney S. Thomas, & William A. Darity, Jr. Self-Identified Race, Perceived Skin Tone, and Adult Physiological Dysregulation: Assessing Multiple Dimensions of Race in Health Disparities Research. Under review at Social Science & Medicine. *Collaboration with student 1 of 5

2 PAPERS IN PREPARATION Thomas, Courtney and Amanda Bunting*. Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Depressive Symptoms: Does Mastery Matter? Thomas, Courtney S. Race, Socioeconomic Mobility, and the SES-Health Association in Adulthood Erving, Christy L. and Courtney S. Thomas. Race, Emotional Reliance, and Major Depression. Thomas, Courtney S. and Roland Thorpe, Jr. Race, John Henryism, and the SES-Gradient in Allostatic Load GRANTS & AWARDS NIH Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Grant (VR11733), Black in White Spaces: Racial Self-Awareness and the Black American Stress Experience. [$9,486] Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Doctoral Fellowship RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College. Five Years of Full Graduate Funding. Dissertation Enhancement Grant, 2014 Vanderbilt University Graduate School. [$2000] Graduate Student Paper Award Competition, 1 st Place, 2014 Vanderbilt University, Department of Sociology. [$750] Graduate Student Seminar Grant, 2013 Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University. [$3,000] Department Summer Research Award, 2011 Vanderbilt University, Department of Sociology. [$2,000] RESEARCH & STATISTICAL TRAINING Butler-Williams Scholars Program, 2015 National Institute on Aging (NIA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Symposium, 2015 Grant-writing and Networking Symposium. Princeton, New Jersey Certificate in Health Policy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, 2015 Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques, University of Michigan, 2014 Institute for Social Research, Course: An Introduction to Focus Groups as Qualitative Research MICHR Summer Immersion Program in Health Disparities, 2013 Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ICPSR, University of Michigan, 2013; 2011 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Courses: Regression Analysis II, Categorical Data Analysis; Introduction to Data Analysis I Page 2 of 6

3 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Principle Investigator, Black in White Spaces: Racial Self-Awareness and the Black American Stress Experience NIH Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Grant #VR11733 Research Assistant, Institute for Research on Men s Health (RWJF Grant), 2014 PI: Derek Griffith, PhD., Vanderbilt University Project: Social Determinants of Obesogenic Behaviors of Middle-Aged African American Men. Research Assistant, Nashville Stress and Health Study (NIA, OBSSR R01AG ), PI: R. Jay Turner, Ph.D., Center for Research on Health Disparities, Vanderbilt University Research Assistant, Caring Hearts Study (NIA K01AG ), PI: Rich Holden, Ph.D., Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety (CRISS), Vanderbilt University Qualitative Research Analyst, 2011 PI: Stephen Guillot, University of Glamorgan, Wales & Vanderbilt University Project: Emergency Warning System: Factors Influencing Citizen Decision-Making. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught: Sociological Quantitative Analysis Research Practicum Social Dynamics of Mental Health Society & Medicine Racial Domination & Progress Inequalities in Society Introduction to Africana Studies Training: Certificate in College Teaching, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, 2013 Teaching Positions Held: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology/African American & Africana Studies Program, University of Kentucky, 2015-present Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2015 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Africana Studies, Tennessee State University, 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Sociology Tutor, Stratton Academic Center, Vanderbilt University, INVITED TALKS Thomas, Courtney S Dealing with the Ambiguity: The Significance of Ambiguous Discrimination Stress for the Health of Black Americans. Maryland Population Research Center Seminar Series, University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. Thomas, Courtney S Black in White Spaces: Racial Self-Awareness and the Black American Stress Experience. Symbols of Exclusion: The Semiotics of Race in Public Spaces Symposium, University of Mississippi. Oxford, Mississippi. Page 3 of 6

4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (**invited session) Thomas, Courtney S Race, Childhood SES, and the SES-Health Association in Adulthood: The Role of Socioeconomic Mobility. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Orlando, Florida. Thomas, Courtney S Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: The Significance of Social Class Discrimination. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Illinois. Thomas, Courtney S Dealing with the Ambiguity: The Significance of Ambiguous Discrimination Stress for the Mental Health of Black Americans. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago, Illinois. Thomas, Courtney S Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: The Significance of Social Class Discrimination. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. **Thomas, Courtney S Atlanta and the Black American Stress Experience: The Significance of City Contexts for Health and Well-Being. Paper presented at the Section on Community and Urban Sociology Session of the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, California. Thomas, Courtney S Higher Education and Stress: Implications for Black-White Disparities in Pregnancy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. Thomas, Courtney S Women and Chronic Stress: The Significance of Social Support. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, California. Thomas, Courtney S. and R. Jay Turner Early Life Adversity and Social Relationships in Adulthood: Racial Contrasts. Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the International Conference on Social Stress Research. Vancouver, Canada. R. Jay Turner, Thomas, Courtney S. Thomas, and Tyson H. Brown Racial Contrasts in the Early Life Adversity-Adult Health Association: Evaluating Intervening Mechanisms. Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the International Conference on Social Stress Research. Vancouver, Canada. Thomas, Courtney S Racial Self-Awareness, a New Form of Stress? Investigating the Effects of Race- Class Identity Conflicts for the Black Middle Class. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York, New York. Thomas, Courtney S The Black Middle Class: New Insights for the Study of Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, New York. Thomas, Courtney S Not So Supportive? Black-White Differences in the Effectiveness of Social Support on Birthweight and Preterm Delivery. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. Thomas, Courtney S Using the Stress Process Model to Examine the Role of Social Support in Pregnancy Outcomes: Differences across Socioeconomic Status and Race. Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society Conference. Jacksonville, Florida. Page 4 of 6

5 PROFESSIONAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE Reviewer, 2013-present American Sociological Review Journal of Health & Social Behavior Society and Mental Health Social Currents Professional Development Committee Chair, 2014-present Editorial Assistant, American Sociological Review, 2013-present Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Policy Committee Representative, 2012-present Social Events Committee Chair, Guest Speaker Committee Chair, DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Policy Committee, 2015 Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section Aging and the Life Course Section Social Psychology Section Mental Health Section Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section Race, Class, Gender Section Population Association of America Gerontological Society of America Society for the Study of Social Problems Association of Black Sociologists Southern Sociological Association REFERENCES R. Jay Turner, PhD Gilbert C. Gee, PhD Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Vanderbilt University UCLA Fielding School of Public Health PMB Charles E. Young Dr. South Nashville, Tennessee Los Angeles, California Phone: Phone: Tyson H. Brown, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University PMB Nashville, Tennessee Phone: Kris Marsh, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Sociology University of Maryland 2112 Art/Sociology Building College Park, Maryland Phone: Page 5 of 6

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