Expertise

Research Projects:

  • Social determinants of sleep and sleep disparities among college students.

Dr. Fuller-Rowell's current research focuses on (1) examining the ways in which social stress and discrimination influence health and health disparities, (2) exploring the antecedents and sequelae of identity change, and (3) understanding how stresses associated with negative stigmatization combine with identity and other risk or protective factors to influence physical and mental health.

Recent Projects:

  • Social Class Discrimination
  • Disparities in Sleep Problems
  • Neighborhoods and Health Inequality

Lab Areas of Interest:

  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Socioeconomic and Racial Health Disparities
  • Stress Physiology and Biomarkers of Physiologic Dysregulation
  • Policy Influences on Health Inequality
  • Intergenerational Social Mobility.

Research in the Health Equity Research Lab focuses on understanding how differential life circumstances—as a function of race and social class—influence health disparities across the life span.

His research focuses on the impact of social stress, socioeconomic adversity, and broader contextual influences--such as neighborhood environments and social policy--on health and health disparities across the lifespan.

Project:

  • College Student Sleep and Health Study.

Recent Projects:

  • Social Class Discrimination
  • disparities in sleep problems
  • Neighborhoods and Health Inequality.
Communities
Human Development
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University , Developmental Psychology , 2010
MA, Cornell University , Human Development , 2007
BA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Psychology and Biochemistry, 2003