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Matt Grace

@mattkgrace

Associate Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. I study stress/mental health, support networks, and medical education.

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In our December issue, learn about the effects of Countervailing Powers of the state, healthcare organizations and patients on physicians during the Covid19 pandemic: bit.ly/457Y9QY

By @taniamjenkins.bsky.social Liza Buchbinder & Mara Buchbinder

16.12.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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In our December issue Matthew Grace finds that personal and vicarious stress exposure predict greater anticipatory stress among marginalized groups. Read here to learn more: bit.ly/3MuAX9f

#NewPublication @HamiltonCollege @asamedsoc.bsky.social

11.12.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honored to have my research elevated by @jofhsb.bsky.social for #InternationalDayOfPersonswithDisabilities. This recognition means so much. 2025 has been an extraordinary year for impactful research in the sociology of disability. Grateful for this community. @asadisability.bsky.social

05.12.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewPublication reveals that Black Americans who perceive themselves as dark-skinned experience more stress. Learn more about the biopsychosocial model of colorism-related distress: bit.ly/42FrLnS

By Alexis C. Dennis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social Taylor W. Hargrove Jay A. Pearson

17.10.2025 13:56 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles

🚨 New paper 🚨

In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of β€œtough-on-crime” sentencing policies.

In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.

track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

22.08.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
Unlearning Medicine’s Unhealthy β€˜Hidden Curriculum’ Many doctors adopt damaging lifestyle β€˜survival skills’ during residency and keep them for years. Here’s how to spot β€” and finally break β€” habits of self-neglect.

Media alert: My research on professional culture and physician burnout was just cited in this Medscape article about how medicine can be unhealthy for doctors: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

@asanews.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

22.08.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Karen is the best medical sociologist out there. Looking forward to keeping up with this!

25.05.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Racial Capitalism and Black-White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis - Reed T. DeAngelis, 2025

My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧡 (1/8)

23.05.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

31.01.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 814 πŸ” 532 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 70

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

31.01.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 310 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

Congratulations on both the article and this great pieceβ€”I’ll be assigning it for a unit on poverty and intergenerational inequality in Intro Soc this upcoming semester

09.01.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two Great Reads - Monday - December 2 Siblings!

It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data.

asocial.substack.com/p/two-great-...

02.12.2024 12:09 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3