Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

she/her

ewf@umn.edu

612-624-7602

Sociology

1156 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Sociology

Educational Background

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 2014
B.A.: Sociology, New York University, 2006
M.A.: Philosophy, New York University, 2007

Publications

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Publications

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Mathew V. Kiang, Alicia R. Riley, Magali Barbieri, Yea-Hung Chen, Kate A. Duchowney, Ellicott C. Matthay, David Van Riper, Kirrthana Jegathesan, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, and Jonathon P. Leider. 2021.“Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age- based thresholds alone.” Science Advances 7.
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Sarah Garcia, Jonathon P. Leider, and David Van Riper. 2021. “COVID-19 Mortality at the Neighborhood Level: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities Deepened in Minnesota in 2020.” Health Affairs 40(10): 1-10.
Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. “City Health Departments, Public Health Expenditures, and Urban Mortality over 1910-1940.” Forthcoming, Economic Inquiry 1-25. DOI:10.1111/ecin.13038
Horner, Kimberly, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Jonathan P. Leider. 2021. “A First Look: Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Among US-born and Foreign-born Minnesota Residents.” Population Research and Policy Review. DOI:10.1007/s11113-021-09668-1
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth and Dennis Feehan. “In a Stationary Population, the Average Lifespan of the Living is a Length-Biased Life Expectancy.” Forthcoming, Demography
Feehan, Dennis and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. "How do Populations Aggregate?" Forthcoming, Demographic Research
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Sarah Garcia, Jonathan P. Leider, Chris Robertson, and Rebecca Wurtz. “Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Minnesota.” Socius 6.
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2020. "U.S. Racial Inequality May Be as Deadly as Covid-19.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (36):21854-21856.
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2020. "Life Years Lost to Police Encounters in the United States.” Socius 6.
"Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty". 2020. Demography 57(2):747-777.
"Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948," with James Feigenbaum and Chris Muller. 2019. Demography 56:1371-1388.
"Mortality Crossovers from Dynamic Subpopulation Reordering," with Felix Elwert. 2016. Pp. 177-199 in Dynamic Demographic Analysis, edited by Robert Schoen. NY: Springer.
"Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model." 2014. Demography 51(1):51-71.
"Mortality Deceleration is Not Informative of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Open Groups." 2013. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 11:15-36.

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Awards

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Awards

William Foote Whyte Career Award, American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology (2022), 2022
Public Engagement Award, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (2022), 2022
Public Sociology Award, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota (2022), 2022
Outstanding Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Mathematical Sociology (2020), 2020
Fesler-Lampert Chair in Aging Studies, University of Minnesota (2019-2020), 2019 - 2020
Kathryn DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year Award, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015), 2015
Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, Social Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013), 2013
Clifford Clogg Award, American Sociological Association, Methodology Section (2012), 2012
Gunther Beyer Award, European Association for Population Studies (2010), 2010
Poster Award, Population Association of America (eight awards, 2009-2019), 2009 - 2019
Fellowships and Traineeships: Institute for Advanced Study, UMN (2020); NICHD (2013-2014); Institute for Research on Poverty (summer 2013; 2012-2013, declined); Ford Foundation (2012-2013); National Science Foundation (2009-2012)
Fellowships and Traineeships: University Prize Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-2009); Richard A. and Jeanette L. Hoffman Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006-2007)

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