Meet Graduate Student Philip J. Pettis
Doctoral candidate Philip Pettis’s research examines how sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and SES intersect to shape social, economic, and health inequalities. Under the tutelage of Dr. Lijun Song, Philip learned to apply a diverse set of theoretical frameworks including race/ethnicity studies, sexualities studies, medical sociology, and social psychology. He matches his theoretical diversity with methodological breadth, employing social network analysis, survey methods, and in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation. Philip recently secured a position as Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, where he will apply the skills and knowledge accumulated at Vanderbilt to the thematic area of Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research at MSU.