Brittany Hearne
Brittany N. Hearne received her B.S. in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2012 and her M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2015. She primarily uses quantitative methods to examine racial and ethnic, gender, and educational variations in the areas of health, family, and social psychology. She is particularly interested in how race, gender, and educational attainment intersect to produce inequalities in outcomes related to marriage and family, mental and physical health, and self-concept.
Brittany’s dissertation project is an analysis of how race-based stressors influence the odds of marriage for blacks compared to whites. She then examines how romantic relationships (i.e., single, monogamously dating, cohabiting, and married) effect self-concept and health differently by race, gender, and education. In other research, she investigates racial and ethnic differences in the impact of parenting styles in adolescence on young adult educational attainment and how the relationship is mediated by mental health. She has made contributions to intersectionality research by highlighting the contribution of black women in gender legal activism.
Representative Publications
Christie-Mizell, C. André, Erika Leslie, and Brittany N. Hearne. Forthcoming. “Self-Rated Health, Discrimination and Racial Group Identity: The Consequences of Ethnicity and Nativity among Black Americans.” Journal of African American Studies.
McCammon, Holly J., Brittany N. Hearne, Allison McGrath, and Minyoung Moon. Forthcoming. “Judicial Legal Mobilization and Analogical Framing: Feminist Litigators’ Use of Race-Gender Analogies.” Law and Policy Review.
Hearne, Brittany N. and Holly J. McCammon. Forthcoming. “Black Women Cause Lawyers: Legal Activism in Pursuit of Racial and Gender Equality.” In 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism, edited by L.A. Banaszak and H. McCammon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McCammon, Holly J. and Brittany N. Hearne. 2017. “U.S. Women’s Legal Activism in the Judicial Arena.” In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism, edited by H. McCammon, V. Taylor, J. Reger, and R. Einwohner. Oxford: Oxford University Press.