Graduate Student
Biography
B.A. Sociology/History, University of California Davis, 2011
M.A. Sociology, University of Washington, 2017
My research is focused on the interdependence of physical and mental health outcomes and what that means for health disparities. I'm particularly interested in the social construction of disease, particularly the medicalization of "obesity" and what moral and medical frames about body size mean for population health more broadly.
Research
Selected Research
- Sass, Victoria, Sylvie Gadeyne. 2021. “Social Disparities in Survival from Head and Neck Cancers inEurope.” In: Launoy, G., Zadnik, V., Coleman, M.P. (eds) Social Environment and Cancer in Europe.Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69329-9_10
- Rosskamp, Michael, Julie Verbeeck, Victoria Sass, Sylvie Gadeyne, Freija Verdoodt, and HarlindeDe Schutter. 2021. “Social Inequalities in Cancer Survival in Belgium: A Population-Based CohortStudy.” Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 30(1):45. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0721.
- Stewart E. Tolnay, Woody E. Beck, Victoria Sass. “Migration and Protest in the Jim Crow South,”Social Science Research, 73:13-30 (July 2018).
- Bongki Woo, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Victoria Sass, Kyle Crowder, Samantha Teixeira, David Takeuchi. “Residential Segregation and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Ambient Air Pollution.” Race and Social Problems, 11(1) 60-67 (October 2018).
- Victoria Sass, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Steven M. Karceski, Anjum Hajat, Kyle Crowder, David Takeuchi. 2017 "The effects of air pollution on individual psychological distress," Health & Place, 48:72-79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.006.
Courses Taught
Summer 2023
Additional Courses
Sociology 504: Applied Social Statistics (TA - Fall 2020)
Sociology 505: Applied Social Statistics (TA - Winter 2021)
Sociology 506: Methodology: Quantitative Techniques in Sociology (TA - Spring 2022)
Affiliations
Home Department