Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University
About
Dr. Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde earned her PhD in Sociology at Texas A&M University in 2018. She is currently an assistant professor of sociology at Utah State University with a focus on intersectional population health, social demography, and racial and ethnic relations. Her current research focuses on health inequalities among immigrants, transgender individuals, and people with disabilities. Her work can be found in peer-reviewed outlets including Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, SSM-Population Health, and the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Current Work:
Dr. Marquez-Velarde’s research can be summarized as intersectional population health. She examines health inequalities at the intersection of distinct social identities such as race and ethnicity, immigration, socioeconomic and/or disability status, and sexual orientation and gender identity. Racism, sexism, ableism, anti-immigration ideology, homophobia, and transphobia put populations at risk of poor health through structural mechanisms of inequality, including but not limited to discrimination. She explores how those mechanisms work in tandem to create disparate outcomes in self-rated health, chronic and mental illnesses, and disability. She is currently analyzing the impact of discrimination in different social settings in the mental health of transgender individuals using the United States Trans Survey, a restricted dataset with a sample of approximately 27,000 transgender and non-binary individuals in the U.S.
Research Area Keyword(s):
intersectionality, health, inequality, disparities, population
