Tiffany Joseph
Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
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 University Press 2015) and Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025). She discussed findings from Not All In amid ongoing healthcare challenges in a TEDx talk, “Imagining a Better Healthcare System Amidst Shifting Paradigms.” Her award-winning research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and national media outlets.
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
- 2026-27 Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lecturer Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Books
Tiffany D. Joseph. 2025. Not All In: Race, Immigration and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tiffany D. Joseph and Laura E. Hirshfield (editors). 2023. Reexamining Identity Taxation, Racism, and Sexism in the Academy. New York: Routledge Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Tiffany D. Joseph and Vibhustuti Thapa. 2026. “Health Migrations: The Influence of Transnational Ties on Latin American Immigrants’ Healthcare Practices.” Social Science and Medicine; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119382.
Tiffany D. Joseph and Virginia Martinez. 2026. “Language Barriers and Healthcare Challenges for Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency After Health Reform in the United States.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 23 (1), 9, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23010009.
Tiffany D. Joseph. 2025. “The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification.” Social Sciences 14 (1); DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14010041.
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Education
PhD, Sociology
University of Michigan, 2011 -
Contact
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Address
201 Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Office Hours
Sabbatical Fall 2026
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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.
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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.
