Rate My Professor Brea Perry

Perry began her academic career as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky from 2008 to 2013, advancing to Associate Professor there until 2014, before returning to Indiana University as Associate Professor and rising to full Professor in 2018. She has received prestigious honors including election to the Sociological Research Association in 2021, National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar in 2019, multiple American Sociological Association section awards such as the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award (2017, 2009) and James A. Coleman Award (2016), and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2002-2005). Key publications include the book Egocentric Network Analysis: Foundations, Methods, and Models (Cambridge University Press, 2018, with Pescosolido and Borgatti); editor of Fifty Years after Deinstitutionalization (Advances in Medical Sociology, 2016), Genetics, Health, & Society (2015), and others; and articles such as "Suspending Progress: Collateral Consequences of Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools" (American Sociological Review, 2014, with Morris) and "Gendering Genetics" (American Journal of Sociology, 2016). Perry has secured major grants from the National Institute on Aging and others totaling millions, and served as Associate Editor for Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2017-2019) and Alzheimer’s & Dementia (2022-2024), and Series Editor for Advances in Medical Sociology (2013-2021).