#  Zoua M. Vang 

 

 



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 (Sociology, November 2008)  
*Thesis Title:* Irish and American Ghettos: Race and Residential Segregation in Ireland and the United States  
*Committee:* Mary C. Waters (chair), Orlando Patterson, Robert J. Sampson, Dorren McMahon  
*Initial Placement*: NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Population Studies Center, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania  
*Current Position:* [Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University](http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/vang)

 I received my BA in Sociology and Psychology (1999) from the University of Pennsylvania, and MA (2004) and PhD (2008) in Sociology from Harvard University. I spent two years as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania where I acquired additional training in racial/ethnic health disparities and maternal child health. I am an **Associate Professor** (with tenure) in the Department of Sociology and an **Associate Member** of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University. I am also the founding **Director** of the Indigenous Maternal Infant Health & Well-being (IMIHW) Lab at McGill.



 

 

 





 

 

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