I am a storyteller.
My stories are driven by questions whose answers carve out a path to freedom.
The greatest challenge I face is painting stories with numbers.
The primary question that drives me is:
How is the health of ethnoracially-marginalized people curtailed by anti-Black structural ethnoracism?
Theoretically, I integrate
1: political economic approaches of health and health care
2: neighborhood effects approaches to human development
3: critical racisms approaches of systemic inequality
Analytically, I evaluate:
1: the illness spillovers of institutionalized inequities (specifically, policing and housing)
2: ethnoracial inequities in lay attitudes toward medicine
3: the racialization of sociopolitical economies
4: the matrix of domination
I am dedicated to advancing social scientific methods to measure the root sociopolitical systems of ethnoracial marginalization and ethnoracisms.
My stories are driven by questions whose answers carve out a path to freedom.
The greatest challenge I face is painting stories with numbers.
The primary question that drives me is:
How is the health of ethnoracially-marginalized people curtailed by anti-Black structural ethnoracism?
Theoretically, I integrate
1: political economic approaches of health and health care
2: neighborhood effects approaches to human development
3: critical racisms approaches of systemic inequality
Analytically, I evaluate:
1: the illness spillovers of institutionalized inequities (specifically, policing and housing)
2: ethnoracial inequities in lay attitudes toward medicine
3: the racialization of sociopolitical economies
4: the matrix of domination
I am dedicated to advancing social scientific methods to measure the root sociopolitical systems of ethnoracial marginalization and ethnoracisms.
Selected Articles
Police Violence and Health
Sewell, Alyasah A., Justin Feldman, Kevin Jefferson, Rashawn Ray, Keon Gilbert, and Hedwig Lee. forthcoming. “The Illness Spillovers of Legal Intervention Deaths: Differential Cross-level Associations by Gender.” Ethnic and Racial Studies Latest Articles:
Sewell, Abigail A. 2017. “Illness Associations of Police Violence: Differential Relationships by Ethnoracial Composition.” Sociological Forum 32 (S1): 975-997.
Sewell, Abigail A., Kevin Jefferson, and Hedwig Lee. 2016. “Living Under Surveillance: Gender, Psychological Distress, and Stop-Question-and-Frisk Policing in New York City.” Social Science & Medicine 159:1-13.
Sewell, Abigail A. and Kevin Jefferson. 2016. “Collateral Damage: The Health Effects of Invasive Police Encounters in New York City.” Journal of Urban Health 93(1):42-67.
Sewell, Alyasah A., Justin Feldman, Kevin Jefferson, Rashawn Ray, Keon Gilbert, and Hedwig Lee. forthcoming. “The Illness Spillovers of Legal Intervention Deaths: Differential Cross-level Associations by Gender.” Ethnic and Racial Studies Latest Articles:
Sewell, Abigail A. 2017. “Illness Associations of Police Violence: Differential Relationships by Ethnoracial Composition.” Sociological Forum 32 (S1): 975-997.
- Permanent DOI Link
- Referenced in: Journalists Resource, Brookings Institution
Sewell, Abigail A., Kevin Jefferson, and Hedwig Lee. 2016. “Living Under Surveillance: Gender, Psychological Distress, and Stop-Question-and-Frisk Policing in New York City.” Social Science & Medicine 159:1-13.
- Lead Article
- Permanent DOI Link
- Postprint Available
- Referenced in: The New York Times, Health Affairs, Medium, NBC News, ScienceNews, The Society Pages
- Covered in Research Brief by Abigail A. Sewell (2016) @ Poverty and Race: Poverty & Race Research Action Council. 25(4):5-7.
Sewell, Abigail A. and Kevin Jefferson. 2016. “Collateral Damage: The Health Effects of Invasive Police Encounters in New York City.” Journal of Urban Health 93(1):42-67.
- Article Available (permanent DOI link)
- Referenced in: The New York Times, Health Affairs, USA Today, Phys.org, Futurity, The Society Pages
- Covered in Research Brief by Abigail A. Sewell (2016) @ Poverty and Race: Poverty & Race Research Action Council. 25(4):5-7.
- Covered by Melissa Brown (2016). “Research Brief: Collateral Damage to Health from Invasive Police Encounters in New York City.” @ RacismReview.com
- Infographic by Critical Race Initiative (2016) Infographic
Redlining and Health
Sewell, Abigail A. 2016. “The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4):402-432.
Sewell, Abigail A. 2015. “Opening the Black Box of Segregation: Real Estate and Racial Health Disparities.” Pp. 87-105 in Adrienne Brown and Valerie B. Smith (eds). Race and Real Estate. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sewell, Abigail A. 2016. “The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4):402-432.
- Permanent DOI Link
- Featured on ASA News
- SRE Podcast
- Referenced in: The Society Pages
Sewell, Abigail A. 2015. “Opening the Black Box of Segregation: Real Estate and Racial Health Disparities.” Pp. 87-105 in Adrienne Brown and Valerie B. Smith (eds). Race and Real Estate. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lay Health Care Disparities
Sewell, Alyasah A. and Emily Pingel. 2020. “The Dual Contingencies of Ethnoraciality among Sexual Minorities: Status-Context Disparities in Reliance on Doctors for Health Information.” Social Science Research Online First
Ray, Rashawn, Abigail A. Sewell, Keon L. Gilbert, and Jennifer D. Roberts. 2017. “Missed Opportunity? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Racial Health Disparities.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 42(5): 901-924.
Sewell, Abigail A. 2015. “Disaggregating Ethnoracial Disparities in Physician Trust.” Social Science Research 54:1-20.
Sewell, Alyasah A. and Emily Pingel. 2020. “The Dual Contingencies of Ethnoraciality among Sexual Minorities: Status-Context Disparities in Reliance on Doctors for Health Information.” Social Science Research Online First
Ray, Rashawn, Abigail A. Sewell, Keon L. Gilbert, and Jennifer D. Roberts. 2017. “Missed Opportunity? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Racial Health Disparities.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 42(5): 901-924.
Sewell, Abigail A. 2015. “Disaggregating Ethnoracial Disparities in Physician Trust.” Social Science Research 54:1-20.
- Lead Article
- Permanent DOI Link
- Winner, Graduate Student Paper Award, SSSP Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Section (original draft)
- Syndicated coverage in: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Post, The Washington Post Writers Group, The Times Reporter, Latin Post, Latinos Health, Salud America!, Galenox (in Spanish), Hispanic Trending, El Pueblo Latino (in Spanish), The Santa Fe Mexican, O Jornal, ScienceDaily, Science Newsline, Science 2.0, PsyPost, Science Codex, News-Medical.n, The Chicago Crusader, The Columbia Daily Tribune, The Roanoke Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, Albuquerque Journal, Bloomington Pantagraph, Canton Repository, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Gwinnett Daily Post, Telegraph & Gazette, Gazette Xtra, Janesville Gazette, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, Canton Repository, The Daily Newset, MedicalXpress, VerticalNews Health, NewsRx, Futurity, NewsOne, Hello Beautiful, BlackHealthMatters