- Assistant Professor
- Email: carlyn.graham@tamu.edu
- Office: WCSS 376
- Document: CV
Biography
Carlyn Graham is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. She received her PhD in Sociology and Demography from the Pennsylvania State University in 2023. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Biosocial Training Program at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carlyn is a sociologist and social demographer who specializes in the social determinants of U.S. population health and mortality across the life course. Her research investigates the social processes through which people’s health and mortality risk is shaped by their social statuses and positions in systems of social stratification in the U.S. Her research has been published in journals including Social Problems, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and Society and Mental Health.
Courses Taught at Texas A&M
- SOCI 425: Medical Sociology
- SOCI 489: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Research Interests
- Population Health
- Medical Sociology
- Sociology of Mental Health
- Demography
Educational Background
- Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
Selected Publications
- Graham, Carlyn. 2025. “Interpersonal Discrimination as a Potential Source of Individual-Level Anomie and its Consequences for Suicide Ideation.” Social Problems.
- Graham, Carlyn, Robert A. Hummer, & Carolyn T. Halpern. 2025. “Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Do Adolescent Survival Expectations Predict Premature Mortality Risk in the United States?” Social Science & Medicine 364:117548.
- Graham, Carlyn & Gabriele Ciciurkaite. 2025. “Subjective Social Status as a Predictor of Physical and Mental Health among Early Midlife Adults in the United States: Appraising the Role of Gender.” Society and Mental Health 15(1):57-74.
- Graham, Carlyn. 2024. “Accumulating Burden: Exposure to Interpersonal Discrimination Based on Multiple Attributes and Allostatic Load.” Social Science & Medicine – Population Health 26:101639.
- Graham, Carlyn E. & Michelle L. Frisco. 2023. “The Mental ‘Weight’ of Discrimination: The Relationship between Perceived Interpersonal Weight Discrimination and Suicidality in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64(4):610-625.
- Graham, Carlyn & Andrew Fenelon. 2023. “Health, Suicidal Thoughts, and the Life Course: How Worsening Health Emerges as a Determinant of Suicide Ideation in Early Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 64(1):62-78.