Post-Doc, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar
Postdoctoral Researcher
About
Tiffany Joseph is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University from 2011-2013 and as assistant professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University (on leave 2011-2013). She completed her PhD in Sociology (2011) and received graduate certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2007) and graduate teaching (2010) at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, entitled "Race and Making America in Brazil: Exploring Brazilian Return Migrants' Racial Conceptions in the US and Brazil" examined the influence of US immigration on Brazilian return migrants' racial conceptions. Her other research interests include race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas, the influence of immigration on the social construction of race in the US, immigration and health policy, and the experiences of minority faculty in academia. Dr. Joseph received a BA in Sociology and Ethnic Studies (with honors) from Brown University in 2004.
