Catherine Lee, Ph.D.
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
clee@sociology.rutgers.edu, (732) 445-4240 |
Biosketch • Current Projects • Curriculum Vitae (.pdf) |  | | Catherine Lee is assistant professor in sociology (Ph.D., UCLA, 2003). Her research interests include race and ethnicity, gender, immigration, law and society, and science and medicine. She has pursued these diverse interests using quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate immigrant exclusion, science and health policy, and racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Professor Lee's research in the areas of health and medicine include a study of the production and dissemination of knowledge about race and health in biomedical research and health policy and the politics of government efforts to address health disparities.
In 2009-2010, Professor Lee is on leave from Rutgers and is a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she is working a book on family reunification in immigration policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to joining Rutgers in 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy at the University of Michigan. She was also a guest scholar at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego and a dissertation fellow of the Social Sciences Research Council's Sexuality Research Fellowship Program. | | |
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