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Social Justice in Community: "The Intersectionality of Illness," with Dr. Nicole DeLoatch

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights and the University of Maryland

The Social Justice in Community series brings human rights scholars into conversation about how their work illuminates human rights struggles around us today and what we can do about those struggles.

How does human rights research impact our communities? How does scholarship on human rights violations or issues of social justice have any meaning in our day to day lives? And what is being discussed, studied, and thought about in universities today? Join the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights, the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, and the University of Maryland for the new series "Social Justice in Community," as we bring human rights scholars into conversation about how their work illuminates human rights struggles around us today and what we can do about those struggles. Featuring different scholars from the University of Maryland across a variety of disciplines, from African American Studies to Sociology to Criminology and Criminal Justice to Economics to Government and Politics to Anthropology to Hearing and Speech Sciences and more, this series brings exciting new voices to the Prince George’s County community and offers us all fresh ways to engage.

Dr. Nicole DeLoatch received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 2020. Her dissertation focused on the sociodemographic determinants of chronic mental and physical health conditions for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Her general areas of expertise are in Intersectionality, Social Psychology, Health and Illness, and Education. From these interests, a research agenda will focus on pathways to health and illness shaped by race, class and gender, as well as an exploration of post-secondary educational outcomes using an intersectional lens.

Dr. DeLoatch teaches courses on Contemporary Social Problems, Differences in Educational Outcomes, Human Societies, and the Intersectionality of Health and Illness.

Dr. DeLoatch’s most recent intellectual endeavors center on improving access to undergraduate education, expanding opportunities for undergraduate extracurricular development, developing internships and applied opportunities for putting the Sociology major to practice.