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CUP Affiliates
CUP Affiliates
Carmel E. Price
Carmel Price is an Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; her MSW from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana; and her BA in Elementary Education and Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Price conducts research focused on food insecurity and environmental justice using community-based participatory research methods. She teaches courses on contemporary social problems, quantitative research methods, and poverty and inequality. Dr. Price is a Steering Committee member of the Healthy Dearborn community coalition and an active member of Bike Dearborn.
Contact: carmelp@umich.edu
Natalie Sampson
Natalie Sampson is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She earned her PhD in Health Behavior Health Education and BS in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan and her MPH from Portland State University. She conducts community-based research to study social and physical environments and their effects on human health. She works to bring interdisciplinary evidence to land use and infrastructure planning efforts in Detroit and Southeast Michigan to improve health equity. Dr. Sampson is a steering committee member of the Detroit Climate Action Collaborative and the Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments and works closely with the statewide Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. She also co-chairs the American Public Health Association’s Environmental Justice Subcommittee. At University of Michigan, Dearborn, Dr. Sampson teaches courses in public health, health education, and environmental health.
Contact: nsampson@umich.edu
Jessica K. Camp
Jessica Camp is an Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Department of Health and Human Services at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Prior to earning her PhD in Social Work from Wayne State University, she was a licensed therapist for the Community Mental Health System in Wayne County. Continuing to be influenced by this work, her research uses critical disability and intersectionality frameworks to examine extreme poverty and inequality in the United States. She is especially focused on disparities experienced by individuals in recovery from mental health and substance use disorders. Her recent publications have explored the impact of race, gender, and mental health disorders on economic and labor market disparities, the effect of welfare reform on the well-being of working women in Germany and the United States, and the role of medical social workers in providing care for clients with heart failure. Dr. Camp teaches courses in quantitative research methodology, social justice and community action, and social welfare policy.
Harmony Reppond
Harmony Reppond is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and affiliate faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She earned her MA in Experimental Psychology from San Jose State University and her PhD in Psychology and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the social psychology of social class and the consequences of economic inequality, specifically poverty and homelessness. Her scholarship is informed by a full-cycle model of integrating theory, research, and practice, as well as social psychological approaches to intersecting forms of power and discrimination in interpersonal and institutional contexts. As an applied social psychologist, the overarching goal of her research is to inform public policy and social and economic justice initiatives.
Karen Thomas-Brown
Karen Thomas-Brown is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She received her bachelor’s degree and PhD at the University of the West Indies, (Mona). While completing doctoral studies in geography she was granted a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete portions of her PhD at the University of Liverpool in the UK. Her dissertation topic was “Post-colonial transformation of small and medium-sized urban centers in Jamaica”. Her PhD research focused on the development of secondary towns in Jamaica, and covered themes related to globalization, global local dynamics, and urban development and planning. She previously taught at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica; Mico University College in Kingston, Jamaica and Church teachers’ College in Manchester, Jamaica. Dr. Thomas-Brown is a certified teacher and she has also taught at Tivoli Gardens Comprehensive High school in Kingston, Jamaica and in several primary (elementary) and secondary (high) schools in the Greater Liverpool Area (Merseyside) UK.
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