Courtney Boen is an Assistant Professor and Axilrod Faculty Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Affiliate in the Population Studies Center, Population Aging Research Center, and Center for the Study for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration. Dr. Boen’s research focuses primarily on the social determinants of population health inequality, with particular attention to the social factors producing racial-ethnic, immigrant-native, and socioeconomic health inequities. Currently, Dr. Boen is leading several research projects examining how structures of racial domination and immigrant exclusion pattern stress exposure across domains of social life (e.g., in contacts with the criminal justice system, in exclusion from wealth accumulation processes, in exposure to immigration enforcement activities) in ways that shape population health trends across the life course, historical time, and geography.
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