Andrea Smith

Andrea Smith is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. She is interested in all things racial inequality, however, she is specifically interested in the presence of controlling images and stereotypes in different forms of media (i.e., cable news, video games, TV shows, etc.). She is engaging in policy-related research because she would like to turn her research into policies that could help prevent the spread of harmful ideologies in media.

Read some of her work here:

Smith, Andrea, Yingru Li, and Ting Du. 2021. “Unhealthy after School Snacks: Socioeconomic Disparities of Food Environments around Public and Private Schools in the United States.” Papers in Applied Geography 1–11. doi: 10.1080/23754931.2021.1943499.

Smith, Andrea C., Jacqueline Woerner, Rochelle Perera, Angela M. Haeny, and Jonathan M. Cox. 2021. “An Investigation of Associations Between Race, Ethnicity, and Past Experiences of Discrimination with Medical Mistrust and COVID-19 Protective Strategies.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01080-x.