Biography
Evangeline Warren (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She received her MA in Sociology from Ohio State in 2021 and her AB in Sociology from Kenyon College in 2019. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, the experiences of multiracial individuals, social determinants of health, and racial health disparities. Her undergraduate honors thesis examined rurality through the fundamental cause framework and her masters thesis interrogated the effects of social proximity to whiteness on the health of nonwhite people.
She currently serves as a graduate research assistant on the Perceptions of Discrimination Project (PI: Dr. Lauren Valentino) and on the Pregnancy Care Survey Project (PI: Dr. Maria Gallo). Previously she worked as a research assistant with the Reproductive Health and Decision Making in Ohio study (PIs: Dr. Alison Norris and Dr. Marta Bornstein) and as a graduate trainee with the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network focusing on the experiences of clients at Crisis Pregnancy Centers (PI: Dr. Maria Gallo).
Below you will find links to her most recent publications. For a full list of publications, please see her Google Scholar profile.
When not working on research, she enjoys going to concerts, exploring Columbus with her cats (Oliver and Mira), and cooking up a storm!
Research Interests
Health Disparities
Social Construction of Race
Mixed Race Identities
Social Determinants of Health
Recent Publications
Sam Mitchell and Evangeline Warren
Although higher education research has identified racial/ethnic disparities in college enrollment and degree completion, few studies investigate the educational outcomes of multiracial students relative to monoracial student groups. This paper begins to fill this gap and aims to open a conversation about the precarious state of data collection and empirical research on the growing multiracial population. Using several waves from the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we center multiracial college students in our empirical analysis, which investigates the following questions: (1) how do enrollment rates and patterns of enrollment based on institutional type differ, if at all, for multiracial college students relative to monoracial college students? and (2) how does retention and overall degree attainment differ between multiracial and monoracial groups of college students? Our analyses identify several trends that suggest that multiracial people enroll in college at significantly lower rates, are more likely to enroll in private colleges and universities and four-year institutions, and are less likely to earn bachelor’s degrees relative to other racial groups.
Evangeline Warren, Alexandra Kissling, Alison H Norris, Priya R Gursahaney, Danielle Bessett, and Maria F Gallo
Stigma is present throughout everyday interactions but has particular salience for people seeking abortion care. Using Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma as a marker and enforcer of social ostracization, we expand on existing understandings of abortion stigma and its management. We draw on interviews with 12 clients and 10 staff members of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Ohio to demonstrate how stigmatization around abortion begins before an abortion occurs. We find evidence of enacted and anticipated stigmatization and document how women who are considering an abortion mitigate stigmatization through impression management and other responsive mechanisms. This project expands on existing literature by articulating the broad reality of abortion stigma and shows the concrete ways anticipated and experienced stigmatization can change an individual’s behavior in a health care setting.