Dawne Mouzon, Ph.D. in progress; M.P.H.
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Graduate Assistant,
dmouzon@ifh.rutgers.edu |
Biosketch • Current Projects • C.V. Unavailable |  | Dawne Mouzon (Ph.D. in progress, Rutgers University; M.P.H., Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, 2004; B.A., Psychology and Africana Studies, Rutgers University 2000) is entering her fourth year in the doctoral program in the Sociology department. Extending past research on gender variation only, her most recent project examined how race and gender jointly moderate the association between marital status and mental health. This paper recently won the 2009 Graduate Student Paper Competition for the Mental Health Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Having completed her required coursework and qualifying papers, Dawne's dissertation uses intersectional frameworks (race/class/gender) and secondary data from the National Survey of American Life to address two of the major paradoxes in the mental health literature: 1) why African Americans (despite lower SES and higher exposure to discrimination) generally have better mental health outcomes than whites; and 2) why African Americans of lower social class have better mental health outcomes than African Americans of middle/upper social class. Her committee is composed of four IHHCPAR/Sociology faculty: Drs. Allan Horwitz (chair), Deborah Carr, Sarah Rosenfield, and Kristen Springer. | | |
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