Rate My Professor Tyson Brown

Tyson Brown served as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University from 2010 to 2016, where he was also a Senior Fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008, following an M.A. in Sociology (with a minor in Statistics) and a B.A. in Sociology (Cum Laude) from the University of Florida in 2003 and 2001, respectively. Prior to Vanderbilt, he completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University from 2008 to 2010. His research specializations include medical sociology, population health, racial and ethnic health disparities, structural racism, and life-course intersectional approaches to inequality. Brown has published extensively in leading journals, with key works such as 'Race-Ethnicity and Health Trajectories: Tests of Three Alternative Hypotheses across Multiple Groups and Health Outcomes' (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2012), co-authored with Angela M. O’Rand and Daniel E. Adkins; 'Using Multiple-Hierarchy Stratification Approaches to Understand Health Inequalities: The Intersecting Consequences of Race, Gender, SES and Age' (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2016), with Liana J. Richardson, Taylor W. Hargrove, and Courtney S. Thomas; and 'Racial Stratification, Immigration, and Health Inequality: A Life Course-Intersectional Approach' (Social Forces, 2018). Other notable publications include 'The Intersection and Accumulation of Racial and Gender Inequality: Black Women’s Wealth Trajectories' (The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012) and 'Understanding How Race/Ethnicity and Gender Impact Age-Trajectories of Disability: An Intersectionality Approach' (Social Science & Medicine, 2011), co-authored with David F. Warner.

Brown's contributions have earned him awards such as the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award (Honorable Mention) from the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender and Class (2017), the Outstanding Publication Award from ASA's SALC (2014), NIH F31 Fellowship (2007-2008), and NIH NRSA Fellowship (2003-2007). He has held leadership roles including service on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America, editorial boards of Demography, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Forces, and others, as well as committees for ASA and Southern Sociological Society. His work has influenced interdisciplinary collaborations, including with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and advanced understanding of structural racism's role in health stratification.