COURTNEY S. THOMAS

Conference Presentations

 

Symbols of Exclusion: The Semiotics of Race in Public Spaces Symposium, Oxford, Mississippi, 2014

•  Invited Talk: "Black in White Spaces: Racial Self-Awareness and the Black American Stress Experience." University of Mississippi

  

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2014

• Section on Community and Urban Sociology Invited Session: “Atlanta and the Black American Stress Experience: The Significance of City Contexts for Health and Well-Being”

 

• Race, Gender, and Class Section Roundtable: “Higher Education and Stress: Implications for Black-White Disparities in Pregnancy”

                                               

Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2014

• Critical Dialogue: “Women and Chronic Stress: The Significance of Social Support”

 

International Conference on Social Stress Research, Vancouver, Canada, 2014

• Paper Session: “Early Life Adversity and Social Relationships in Adulthood: Racial Contrasts”

 

• 2nd Paper Session: “Racial Contrasts in the Early Life Adversity-Adult Health Association: Evaluating Intervening Mechanisms” with Jay Turner and Tyson Brown

 

                         

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, 2013

• Social Psychology Section Roundtable: “Racial Self-Awareness, a New Form of Stress? Investigating the Effects of Race-Class Identity Conflicts for the Black Middle Class”

 

Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, New York, New York, 2013

• Thematic Session: “The Black Middle Class: New Insights for the Study of Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States.”

                         

Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013

• Poster Session: “Not So Supportive? Black-White Differences in the Effectiveness of Social Support on Birthweight and Preterm Delivery”

 

                          

Southern Sociological Society Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 2011

• Paper Session: “Using the Stress Process Model to Examine the Role of Social Support in Pregnancy Outcomes: Differences across Socioeconomic Status and Race”