{"id":1405,"date":"2023-04-13T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:35:25","slug":"evelyn-patterson-wins-joe-b-wyatt-distinguished-university-professor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/2023\/04\/13\/evelyn-patterson-wins-joe-b-wyatt-distinguished-university-professor-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Patterson wins Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1406\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1406\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/04\/22140005\/Patterson-Award-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/04\/22140005\/Patterson-Award-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/04\/22140005\/Patterson-Award.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Faculty Assembly and awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Evelyn Patterson,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">associate professor of sociology and of law, was this year\u2019s winner of the\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which recognizes faculty who develop significant knowledge from research or demonstrate exemplary innovations in teaching.\u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Patterson\u2019s work in sociology, demography, law and criminal justice investigates social problems and processes.\u202fHer current scholarship focuses on a critical examination of race as it relates to maternal mortality, physical and mental health, policing and familial incarceration.\u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her multidisciplinary research identifies the real health risks posed by structural inequality and examines the impact on health and psychological well-being of societal burdens faced by marginalized populations\u2014particularly African American families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo and article provided by Vanderbilt University news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evelyn Patterson,\u00a0associate professor of sociology and of law, was this year\u2019s winner of the\u00a0Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award,\u00a0which recognizes faculty who develop significant knowledge from research or demonstrate exemplary innovations in teaching.\u202f\u202f\u00a0 Patterson\u2019s work in sociology, demography, law and criminal justice investigates social problems and processes.\u202fHer current scholarship focuses on a critical examination&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}