Marc Garcia
Marc A. Garcia (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology with a traineeship in demography and a Portfolio in Mexican American and Latino Studies from the University of Texas-Austin in December 2015.
Garcia’s research is organized around two interrelated themes that seek to explain health disparities across the life course in the United States and Mexico. The first focuses on identifying factors that contribute to physical and cognitive health disparities among older racial/ethnic and immigrant adults. The second explores the demographic heterogeneity among older U.S. Latinos to shed light on how sociocultural characteristics and contextual factors associated with nativity status and country of origin contribute to within-group differences in health and well-being.
Recent work includes “Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities” in The Gerontologist and “The Color of Covid-19: Structural Racism and the Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Older Black and Latinx Adults” in The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.