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43
Citations
8042
World Ranking
4418
National Ranking
2108

Overview

Hedwig Lee is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science. This work intersects with health professions, clinical psychology, gender studies, and health-related fields.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize topics such as criminal justice and corrections analysis, homelessness and social issues, health disparities and outcomes, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, migration, health and trauma, racial and ethnic identity research, and crime patterns and interventions.

Frequent publication venues for Hedwig Lee include the following:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Scientific Reports

Lee's collaborative work involves several co-authors with whom they have published multiple papers. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Michael Esposito
  • Tim A. Bruckner
  • Alison Gemmill
  • Joan A. Casey
  • Savannah Larimore

Recent publications by Hedwig Lee cover a range of social science topics and include:

  • Assessing mass incarceration's effects on families (2021, Science)
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Illness spillovers of lethal police violence: the significance of gendered marginalization (2020, Ethnic and Racial Studies)
  • Highly public anti-Black violence is associated with poor mental health days for Black Americans (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States (2021, American Journal of Sociology)

Best Publications

  • Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex

    Frank Edwards;Hedwig Lee;Michael Esposito

  • The prevalence of confirmed maltreatment among US children, 2004 to 2011.

    Christopher Wildeman;Natalia Emanuel;John M. Leventhal;Emily Putnam-Hornstein

  • “Every shut eye, ain’t sleep”: The role of racism-related vigilance in racial/ethnic disparities in sleep difficulty

    Margaret T. Hicken;Hedwig Lee;Jennifer Ailshire;Sarah A. Burgard

  • Health Care Provider Recommendation, Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, and Race/Ethnicity in the US National Immunization Survey

    Kelly R. Ylitalo;Hedwig Lee;Neil K. Mehta

  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence: Reconsidering the Role of Chronic Stress

    Margaret T. Hicken;Hedwig Lee;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;James S. House

  • Reconsidering the Role of Social Disadvantage in Physical and Mental Health: Stressful Life Events, Health Behaviors, Race, and Depression

    Briana Mezuk;Jane A. Rafferty;Kiarri N. Kershaw;Darrell Hudson

  • Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing.

    Tyler H. McCormick;Hedwig Lee;Nina Cesare;Ali Shojaie

  • Living under surveillance: Gender, psychological distress, and stop-question-and-frisk policing in New York City

    Abigail A. Sewell;Kevin A. Jefferson;Hedwig Lee

  • “White Box” Epidemiology and the Social Neuroscience of Health Behaviors The Environmental Affordances Model

    Briana Mezuk;Briana Mezuk;Cleopatra M. Abdou;Darrell Hudson;Kiarri N. Kershaw

  • A Heavy Burden: The Cardiovascular Health Consequences of Having a Family Member Incarcerated

    Hedwig Lee;Christopher Wildeman;Emily A. Wang;Niki Matusko

  • Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012-2018.

    Frank Edwards;Michael H. Esposito;Hedwig Lee

  • RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN CONNECTEDNESS TO IMPRISONED INDIVIDUALS IN THE United States

    Hedwig Lee;Tyler McCormick;Margaret T. Hicken;Christopher Wildeman

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students

    Emily N. Satinsky;Tomoki Kimura;Mathew V. Kiang;Rediet Abebe

  • Consequences of Family Member Incarceration Impacts on Civic Participation and Perceptions of the Legitimacy and Fairness of Government

    Hedwig Lee;Lauren C. Porter;Megan Comfort

  • What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)

    Peter K. Enns;Youngmin Yi;Megan Comfort;Alyssa W. Goldman

  • Life Course Perspectives on the Links Between Poverty and Obesity During the Transition to Young Adulthood

    Hedwig Lee;Kathleen Mullan Harris;Penny Gordon-Larsen

  • Promises and Pitfalls of Using Digital Traces for Demographic Research.

    Nina Cesare;Hedwig Lee;Tyler McCormick;Emma Spiro;Emma Spiro

  • Child health in the United States: Recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities

    Neil K. Mehta;Hedwig Lee;Kelly R. Ylitalo

  • #Proana: Pro-Eating Disorder Socialization on Twitter.

    Alina Arseniev-Koehler;Alina Arseniev-Koehler;Hedwig Lee;Tyler McCormick;Megan A. Moreno;Megan A. Moreno

  • The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures

    Margaret T. Hicken;Hedwig Lee;Anna K. Hing

  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities

    Angela Bruns;Hedwig Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Wildeman
Christopher Wildeman Duke University
Briana Mezuk
Briana Mezuk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guang Guo
Guang Guo University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristin Turney
Kristin Turney University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
Jeffrey D. Morenoff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philippa Clarke
Philippa Clarke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James S. House
James S. House University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast

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