Cheryl Elman, Ph.D.

Cheryl Elman, Ph.D.

Title: Professor Emeritus
Dept/Program: Sociology
Office: Olin Hall 254
Email: cheryl2@uakron.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Download in PDF format

Research

  • Historical Demography
  • Social History of the American South
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Human Capital (Work, Education)
  • Family Structure; The Life Course.

Publications

Cheryl Elman, Kathryn Feltey, Barbara Wittman, Corey Stevens, Molly Hartsough. How the
Struggle for Public Health in the Jim Crow South Reflected and Reinforced Systemic Racial Health
Inequality. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. Published Online 31 Oct. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X24000092

Cheryl Elman, Angela M. O’Rand, Andrew S. London. Parity and Post-Reproductive Mortality
among U.S. Black and White Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Online
September, 2024. PLoS ONE 19(9): e0310629. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310629

Cheryl Elman, Solveig A. Cunningham, Virginia J. Howard, Suzanne E. Judd, Aleena M. Bennett,
and Matthew E. Dupre. Birth in the U.S. Plantation South and Racial Differences in All-Cause
Mortality in Later Life. Social Science & Medicine 335:116213
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116213

Education

  • Ph.D. (1993) in Sociology from The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  • M.S.P.H, (1988) in Health Policy and Management from The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Public Health
  • B.A. (1971) in Psychology from Syracuse University