Courtney Boen is an Associate Professor at Brown University whose work aims to uncover the social and political forces generating population patterns of health and mortality. Her research combines critical and relational theories of race and racism, insights from the life course perspective, and a variety of social demographic techniques to: 1) provide detailed and accurate estimates of population health patterns; and 2) interrogate and reveal the structural, institutional, and sociopolitical determinants of health inequities.
Emine Fidan Elcioglu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research spans migration studies, political sociology, and racialization. She will deliver a talk as part of the Sociology Department's speaker series, titled "A Canadian Dream Delegated: Parental Deskilling and the Moral Weight of Adulthood among 1.5-Generation Egyptian Canadians."