Courtney Boen
@courtneyboen.bsky.social
Sociologist-demographer at Brown University. Structural & sociopolitical drivers of population health.
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🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
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Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...
Global Fellows Program in Demography
The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.
pstc.brown.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...
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Working with sociologists @courtneyboen.bsky.social and @rourkeobrien.bsky.social has been a game-changer for me.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Working with sociologists @courtneyboen.bsky.social and @rourkeobrien.bsky.social has been a game-changer for me.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
I feel like someday I might be able to really understand social science in a broad sense.
Always a fun time to get to respond to a reviewer who, quite literally, hates your paper.
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Always a fun time to get to respond to a reviewer who, quite literally, hates your paper.
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New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US
A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US
A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
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job
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Department of Sociology, Western University
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@westernu.ca #cdnsoci
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Department of Sociology, Western University
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@westernu.ca #cdnsoci
October 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
job
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Department of Sociology, Western University
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@westernu.ca #cdnsoci
TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY
Department of Sociology, Western University
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@westernu.ca #cdnsoci
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For-profit healthcare is a driver of social and economic inequality, part 5848584924
Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections - KFF Health News
Health care providers and debt collectors are biting from people’s paychecks to cover old medical bills. A KFF Health News investigation in Colorado shows that this aggressive collection practice is w...
kffhealthnews.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For-profit healthcare is a driver of social and economic inequality, part 5848584924
The high of putting finishing touches on your #PAA abstract for a newer, exciting project that you are 100% committed to and engaged in, while your older, longstanding, unfinished projects languish in despair.
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The high of putting finishing touches on your #PAA abstract for a newer, exciting project that you are 100% committed to and engaged in, while your older, longstanding, unfinished projects languish in despair.
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Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...
Looking forward to joining the BU Sociology Seminar Series tomorrow, where I’ll be sharing recent work on the links between state violence & population health, focusing on the case of three strikes laws and their impacts on racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Looking forward to joining the BU Sociology Seminar Series tomorrow, where I’ll be sharing recent work on the links between state violence & population health, focusing on the case of three strikes laws and their impacts on racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
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Quite possibly one of the best presentations on how to conduct research. It is by Peter WG Tennant from the University of Leeds, UK and focusses on modern causal inference methods.
More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Quite possibly one of the best presentations on how to conduct research. It is by Peter WG Tennant from the University of Leeds, UK and focusses on modern causal inference methods.
More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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“How can we build, in the United States, a system where aging is not a privilege of the wealthy or the powerful, right, but something that all of us deserve?” the researcher Courtney Boen asks at #TAF25.
Watch her conversation with @rossandersen.bsky.social: bit.ly/46nmbaF
Watch her conversation with @rossandersen.bsky.social: bit.ly/46nmbaF
September 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“How can we build, in the United States, a system where aging is not a privilege of the wealthy or the powerful, right, but something that all of us deserve?” the researcher Courtney Boen asks at #TAF25.
Watch her conversation with @rossandersen.bsky.social: bit.ly/46nmbaF
Watch her conversation with @rossandersen.bsky.social: bit.ly/46nmbaF
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Persistent stressors that are difficult to manage, such as concerns about affording rent or relying on Medicaid when it’s under threat, leave people in a heightened state, the researcher Courtney Boen tells @rossandersen.bsky.social—“and that erodes the body’s systems.” bit.ly/46nmbaF #TAF25
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Persistent stressors that are difficult to manage, such as concerns about affording rent or relying on Medicaid when it’s under threat, leave people in a heightened state, the researcher Courtney Boen tells @rossandersen.bsky.social—“and that erodes the body’s systems.” bit.ly/46nmbaF #TAF25
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I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.
One week from today! 😅
Thrilled to be speaking at the Atlantic Festival in NYC this September, where I’ll be talking about The Future of Aging. See the agenda and get passes (in-person and virtual attendance) at theatlanticfestival.com. #TAF25 @theatlantic.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One week from today! 😅
A paper of mine that has been under review (at the same journal) since November 2023 (22 months!) was just accepted and 🥳🥂🥹
But also 😵💫😓😒
But also 😵💫😓😒
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A paper of mine that has been under review (at the same journal) since November 2023 (22 months!) was just accepted and 🥳🥂🥹
But also 😵💫😓😒
But also 😵💫😓😒
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1/ #Policies shape our #health.
But why?
We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities.
In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
But why?
We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities.
In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health | NEJM
Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health
by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.
www.nejm.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
1/ #Policies shape our #health.
But why?
We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities.
In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
But why?
We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities.
In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Important findings on administrative burdens and Medicaid by Rebecca Myerson, Allison Espeseth, and Laura Dague @lauradague.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34191
www.nber.org/papers/w34191
Navigating Medicaid: Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burden and Coverage Loss
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Important findings on administrative burdens and Medicaid by Rebecca Myerson, Allison Espeseth, and Laura Dague @lauradague.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34191
www.nber.org/papers/w34191
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🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Apply - Interfolio
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September 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Apply - Interfolio
{{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio
apply.interfolio.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
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✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
August 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...