Biography
Christina Kamis is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She previously earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University and was a Postdoctoral Trainee at the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on early life predictors of health (particularly mental health) across the life course. She is also interested in examining how features of neighborhoods, counties, and states influence population health more broadly.
Research Interests
Life Course and Aging, Mental Health, Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Demography
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Highlighted Publications
Kamis, C., Lynch, S. M., & Copeland, W. E. (2024). Associations between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes. Society and Mental Health, 14(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/21568693231197746
Kamis, C., & Copeland, M. (2020). The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 61(4), 437-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146520952769
Kamis, C., Stolte, A., & Copeland, M. (2022). Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent’s Gender. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63(2), 250-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465211061120
Copeland, M., Kamis, C., & Varela, G. (2023). Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms. Social Science and Medicine, 324, Article 115859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115859
Recent Publications
Kamis, C., Lynch, S. M., & Copeland, W. E. (2024). Associations between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes. Society and Mental Health, 14(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/21568693231197746
Xu, W., Agnew, M., Kamis, C., Schultz, A., Salas, S., Malecki, K., & Engelman, M. (2024). Constructing Residential Histories in a General Population-Based Representative Sample. American Journal of Epidemiology, 193(2), 348-359. Article kwad188. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad188
Copeland, M., Kamis, C., & Varela, G. (2023). Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms. Social Science and Medicine, 324, Article 115859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115859
Copeland, M., Kamis, C., & West, J. S. (2023). To make and keep friends: The role of health status in adolescent network tie formation and persistence. Social Networks, 74, 216-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2023.04.005
Lynch, S. M., & Kamis, C. (2023). Methods for studying life course health inequalities. In R. Hoffman (Ed.), Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course (pp. 75-92). (Research Handbooks in Sociology). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888166.00013