Audrey Beck, PhD, MA, BA

Audrey Beck, PhD, MA, BA

Associate Professor, Sociology
Academic Social Scientist

Audrey Beck is an Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Ph.D. in sociology with specializations in demography and stratification from Duke University. Following graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Office of Population Research and Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University. While there, her primary focus was the impact of union formation and dissolution on child health, parenting, and child school readiness. Much of her work uses a variety of demographic methods to understand race, ethnic, and nativity disparities in health. Some recent research projects include: a) the impact of neighborhood economic conditions and crime on birth outcomes, b) race-ethic disparities in mental health outcomes among incarcerated girls, and c) the collection of comprehensive data on police killings. She also is involved in a series of community-based projects around issues of human trafficking and child labor in contexts such as San Diego, Ghana, and Kenya.