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Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Graduate Program Director, Sociology

Dr. Joseph joined the Northeastern faculty in 2018 after serving as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University from 2013-2018. Prior to that, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. Her research explores the micro-level consequences of public policy on individuals, immigrants’ health and healthcare access, comparative frameworks of race and migration in the Americas, and the experiences of faculty of color and women in academia. She is the author of Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race (Stanford Press 2015) and forthcoming book Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare (Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2025). Her award-winning research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and national media outlets.

 

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External/National

  • Grant for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
  • Senior Ford Foundation Fellowship
  • Woodrow Wilson Foundation Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship
  • American Sociological Association Funding across the Discipline Award
  • Institute of International Education Fulbright Student Grant, Brazil
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  Scholars in Health Policy Program
  • Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Internal/University

  • Health Equity Pilot Award, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
  • College of Social Sciences and Humanities Multigenerational Research Team Grant

Professional Associations

  • American Sociological Association, Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Scientists
  • Tiffany D. Joseph and Laura E. Hirshfield (editors). 2023. Reexamining Identity Taxation, Racism, and Sexism in the Academy. New York: Routledge Press.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph and Meredith Van Natta. 2024. “A Bold Policy Agenda for Improving Immigrant Healthcare Access in the US.” Chapter 11 in Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024. (Editors Kristen Budd, Heather Dillaway, David Lane, Glenn W. Muschert, Manjusha Nair, and Jason Smith). Bristol: University of Bristol/Policy Press
  • Houston, Ashley, Tibrine Da Fonseca, Tiffany D. Joseph, and Alisa Lincoln. 2022. “Challenging Federal Exclusion: Immigrant Safety, Health, and Healthcare Access in Sanctuary Cities.” Health and Place 75, published online May 19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102822.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph and Tanya Golash-Boza. 2021. “Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Du Boisian Theory and the Problem of Racialized Legal Status.” Social Sciences 10(9), 345; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10090345.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph. 2020. “Whitening Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Documentation Status as Brightened Boundaries of Exclusion in the U.S. and Europe.” Chapter 4 in International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms. (Editor John Solomos). New York: Routledge Press. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Contemporary-Racisms/Solomos/p/book/9781138485990
  • Tiffany D. Joseph. 2017. “Falling through the Coverage Cracks: How Documentation Status Minimizes Immigrants’ Access to Health Care.” Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 42:961-984, published online June 29, DOI: 10.1215/03616878-394049.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph. 2017. “Still Left Out: Health Care Stratification under the Affordable Care Act.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 12: 2089-2107, published online June 12, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1323453.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph. 2016. “What Healthcare Reform Means for Immigrants: A Comparison of the Affordable Care Act and Massachusetts Health Reforms. Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 41: 101-116, DOI:10.1215/03616878-3445632.
  • Tiffany D. Joseph. 2015. Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race. Series on Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23416
  • Tiffany D. Joseph and Laura Hirshfield. 2010. “ ‘Why Don’t You Get Somebody New To Do It?’: Race and Cultural Taxation in the Academy.” Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies 34: 121-141, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2010.496489.

 

Courses

Course catalog
  • Globalization and International Affairs

    INTL 1101

    Offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing global/international affairs. Examines the politics, economics, culture, and history of current international issues through lectures, guest lectures, film, case studies, and readings across the disciplines.

  • Race and Global Human Mobility

    INTL/SOCL 2500

    Examines the relationship between race and the movement of people around the globe. Offers students an opportunity to acquire a concrete understanding of how race and ethnicity (as social constructions) have developed as people have migrated (under free will or forced circumstances) within and across geopolitical territories (i.e., colonies, countries) in the past (1400s) and through the present. Ethnoracial-related conflicts connected to migration (i.e., rebellions by the enslaved during the Atlantic slave trade, Rwandan genocide, Syrian civil war) may also be explored.