Verna M. Keith

Contact Information:

Office:	614 Bellamy
Phone:	644-7103
Fax:	644-8818
Email:	vkeith@fsu.edu
Website:	Center for Demography and Population Health profile

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

• Mental Health
• Medical
• Race / Ethnicity

Teaching:

• Undergraduate:
  • Mental Health
  • African Americans
  • Medical Sociology
  • Minority Health
• Graduate:
  • Mental Health and Illness
  • African Americans
  • Ethnicity and Health

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

• Professor, Department of Sociology Florida State University, Tallahassee. (2006)
• Research Associate, Center for the Study of Demography and Population Health (2006)
• Chair, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (2000-2004).
• Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (1998-2000).
• Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1990-2006.
• Paul B. Cornely, Sr. Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. (1988-1990).
• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1982.
• M.A., Sociology, University of Kentucky, 1979.
• B.S., Sociology, State College of Arkansas, 1974.

Selected Papers and Publications:

• Verna M. Keith, Jennie Kronenfeld, Patrick Rivers Su-Ying Liang (2005). Assessing the Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Use of Alternative Therapies. Ethnicity and Disease 10:1:19-32.
• Tanya Nieri, Stephen Kulis, Verna M. Keith, and Donna Hurdle (2005). Body Image, Acculturation, and Substance Use among Boys and Girls in the Southwest. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 31:4:617-639.
• Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith, and Hayward Horton (Eds.). 2004. Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the Color Blind Era. University of Illinois Press.
• Diane R. Brown and Verna M. Keith (Eds.). 2003. In and Out of Our Right Minds: African American Women’s Mental Health, New York: Columbia University Press.
• Anna Riley and Verna M. Keith. 2003. Work and Housework Conditions among Married Women: The Importance of Occupational Status. Women and Health 38:4:1-17.

Manuscripts in Progress:

• Lynn Holley, Stephen Kulis, Flavio Marsiglia, and Verna M. Keith. Ethnicity vs. Ethnic Identity: What Predicts Substance Use Norms and Behaviors? Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions (forthcoming Fall 2006).
• Verna M. Keith, “Gender, Complexion, and Emotional Well-Being.
• Verna M. Keith, “A Colorstruck World: Colorism, Racism, and Sexism in the Lives of African American Women.”
• Angela Chen and Verna Keith, “Surviving Katrina: Stress, Coping, and Mental Health among Vietnamese in New Orleans.

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