Rebekah Burroway
Ph.D. Duke, 2011
Rebekah.Burroway@stonybrook.edu
Areas of Interest
Poverty & Inequality, Global Health, Gender, Development & Developing Countries, Political Sociology, Social Demography
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Bio
Professor Burroway’s research utilizes a comparative, cross-national perspective to examine the impact of social structural forces on health and poverty, with an emphasis on women and children. Health is a productive site for studying inequality as it is one of the most fundamental indicators of life chances and is integrally related to many other aspects of disadvantage. Thus, her research is motivated by several key questions: What explains global patterns and vast inequalities in health and well-being? How do macro structures shape individual life chances, particularly in developing countries? How do contexts of gender inequality manifest as unequal power and resources, and consequently, as unequal life chances for women and their children? Burroway’s research and teaching interests broadly encompass the areas of poverty and inequality, global health, gender, development and developing countries, political sociology, and social demography. Drawing on theories of comparative institutions, feminism, democracy, and development, she uses quantitative cross-national and multi-level research designs to illustrate the ways in which political, institutional, economic, and policy contexts influence the lives of women and children. While recognizing the role of individual characteristics, her work underscores the importance of social structures for shaping the distribution of poverty and well-being across societies.
Recent Publications
Burroway, Rebekah. Forthcoming. “A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women’s Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries. International Journal of Sociology
Brady, David and Rebekah Burroway. 2012. “Targeting, Universalism and Single Mother Poverty: A Multi-Level Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies.” Demography 49: 719-746, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0094-z
Toller Erausquin, Jennifer, Monica Biradavolu, Elizabeth Reed, Rebekah Burroway, and Kim M. Blankenship. 2012. “Trends in Condom Use Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: The Impact of a Community Mobilisation Intervention.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2011-200511
Burroway, Rebekah. 2010. “Schools Against AIDS: Secondary School Enrollment and Cross-National Disparities in AIDS Death Rates.” Social Problems 57: 398-420.
Blankenship, Kim, Rebekah Burroway, and Elizabeth Reed. 2010. “Factors Associated with Awareness and Utilization of a Community Mobilization Intervention for Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India.” Sexually Transmitted Infections 86 (Suppl 1): i69-i75.
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
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