Second Year on the Tenure Track/End of Postdoc

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The second year of my tenure track in Sociology at Emory University has been an explosive year. The year began with my former Master's Thesis being picked up by over 45 media outlets and ended with 6 papers in print, 2 papers forthcoming, and 2 papers under review. Additionally, I was able to write enough to bring a manuscript in first draft form from my first year on the tenure track to a polished draft, to fully compose a first draft of a second paper, and to draft from scratch a paper that is currently under peer review. Not to mention, I have given 13 talks/presentation in the past 12 months. I've also been analysis happy. In this time frame, I completed analysis for two separate projects and am in the exploratory stage of four other projects.

I realized these things as I filled out my end-of-the-year statements on teaching, service, and research. I would say my third and last year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania has been wildly successful. I am proud of myself.

Still, I wonder whether I will be able to keep up this level of productivity when I am teaching a 2-2 load at Emory University and obligated to service commitments. I suspect not. Nonetheless, I am riding a very large wave, which will help in the long run. The challenge I am facing now is recouping from the frenzy I have been in over the past couple of months to relax enough to get some decent writing done in the final months of the postdoc.

Here is to a successful second year on the tenure-track. For your reading pleasure, I have listed the 8 papers that went into the publication stage this past year. Keep your eyes out for them!


Forthcoming Sewell, Abigail A. “The (Un)Intended Consequences of Bilingual Employment Policies: Ethnoraciality and Labor Market Segmentation in Alameda County, CA.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 13(2)
Forthcoming Sewell, Abigail A. “The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4):1-31. *Lead Article
Forthcoming Ray, Rashawn, Keon Gilbert, and Abigail A. Sewell. “Mobile Technology As A Conduit For Reducing Obesity-Related Health Disparities.” Issues in Race & Society 4(1)
2016 Sewell, Abigail A., Kevin Jefferson…, and Hedwig Lee. “Living Under Surveillance: Gender, Psychological Distress, and Stop-Question-and-Frisk Policing in New York City.” Social Science & Medicine 159:1-13. *Lead Article
2016 Sewell, Abigail A. and Kevin Jefferson…. “Collateral Damage: The Health Effects of Invasive Police Encounters in New York City.” Journal of Urban Health 93(1):42-67.
2015 Sewell, Abigail A. “Opening the Black Box of Segregation: Real Estate and Racial Health Disparities.” Pp. 87-105 in Adrienne Brown and Valerie B. Smith (eds). Race and Real Estate. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015 Sewell, Abigail A. “Disaggregating Ethnoracial Disparities in Physician Trust.” Social Science Research 54:1-20. *Lead Article
-          Winner, Graduate Student Paper Award, SSSP Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Section (original draft)
-          Featured in: The New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Crusader, The Columbia Daily Tribune, The Roanoke Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, Albuquerque Journal, Bloomington Pantagraph, Canton Repository, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Gwinnett Daily Post, Telegraph & Gazette, Gazette Xtra, Janesville Gazette, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, Canton Repository, The Daily News, The Times Reporter, Latin Post, Latinos Health, Salud America!, Galenox (in Spanish), Hispanic Trending, El Pueblo Latino (in Spanish), The Santa Fe Mexican, O Jornal, US Official News, ScienceDaily, Science Newsline, Science 2.0, Futurity, PsyPost, EurekAlert, Science Codex, News-Medical.net, MedicalXpress, VerticalNews Health, NewsRx, AHC Media, Global News Connect, Technology Org, SouthCoastToday.com, Philly.com, HelloBeautiful.com, BlackHealthMatters.com, FiercePracticeManagement.com
2015 Sewell, Abigail A. and Rashawn Ray. “A Place to Trust: Black Protestant Affiliation and Trust in Personal Physicians.” Pp. 229-249 in Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (ed). Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 33. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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