CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:

• Kessie Alexandre -- Assistant Professor, Geography. Dr. Alexandre’s research focuses on public health risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation; Black geographies and diaspora; and the politics and ethics of infrastructure. Her first book project, Floods and Fountains, is an ethnographic study of water insecurity and civic participation in Newark, New Jersey.
• Magda Boutros -- Assistant Professor, Sociology. Dr. Boutros is a sociologist who studies social movements against policing and the criminal justice system. Her book project examines contemporary French social and political mobilizations against racialized policing practices.
• Jin-Kyu Jung -- Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Dr. Jung is an urban geographer and planner whose interdisciplinary research  develops new ways of critical, qualitative, and creative possibilities of Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) and geographic visualization in understanding socio-spatial processes and politics of urban space and community.
• Maya Magarati -- Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Magarati is core faculty in Seven Directions, A Center for Indigenous Public Health, a part of the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors. She incorporates Indigenous, landscape-based, culture-centered epistemologies in substance use, mental health, STI/HIV and environmental health research and evaluation.

CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass, co-author Joy Geerkens, and CSDE Affiliate Melanie Martin recently published a review article surveying studies that examine measures of both prepubertal growth (e.g., weight, height) and psychosocial stressors (e.g., adversity, father absence) in relation to female pubertal timing. The authors motivate this research with the lack of discussion around causal mechanisms in studies of psychosocial stressors effects on puberty, opening up the potential for confounding mechanisms assessed here.

CSDE Affiliates Jessica Jones-Smith, Melissa Knox, and CSDE Research Scientists Phil Hurvitz and Deven Hamilton recently published new research exploring the impacts of sweetened beverage taxes with co-authors Norma Coe, Lina Walkinshaw, John Schoof, and James Krieger. The authors assess the degree to which sweetened beverage taxes in three large US cities placed an inequitable burden on populations with lower incomes.  They assess spending on beverage taxes across income categories, after taxes.  They also examine whether there is a net transfer of funds towards lower income populations once allocation of tax revenue is considered.

CSDE Affiliates Mark Long, Jacob Vigdor, and CSDE Fellowship Alumna Hilary Wething recently published a National Bureau of Economics working paper with co-authors Ekaterina Jardim, Robert Plotnick, and Emma van Inwegen. The research was partially funded by CSDE. The research team demonstrate the weaknesses of boundary discontinuity as a causal method in policy research.  They do so by estimating spillover effects of minimum wage increases on neighboring jurisdictions using geographically precise, longitudinal data.

CSDE Affiliate Clara Berridge, with co-authors Yuanjin Zhou, Amanda Lazar, Anupreet Porwal, Nora Mattek, Sarah Gothard, and Jeffrey Kaye recently received the Best Paper Award at the Designing Interactive Systems 2022 Conference. The study results stem from a survey of a U.S. online cohort of patients who use technologies to manage their own care. The findings show how important it is for patients to have control over monitoring technologies, including managing their privacy and other information associated with the monitoring technology.

The National Science Foundation is hosting a webinar to discuss funding opportunities available through their cultural anthropology program on Wednesday, July 13, from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM Pacific time. Interested, but unable to attend? You can see a recording of their May 23rd session or find the slides from that presentation on the event page.