Congratulations to CCF’s 2024 Early Career Scholars!

The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is thrilled to announce our second cohort of early career scholars in the Frank F. Furstenberg Early Career Scholars Program! Congratulations to:

• Mia Brantley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, North Carolina State University
• Vanessa Delgado, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington State University
• Hope Harvey, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Kentucky
• Jamie O’Quinn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino

You can read more about each scholar below and learn about their research at CCF’s Policy and Public Scholarship Workshop in the Fall (October 18th, 2024; University of Maryland, Baltimore County).

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Mia Brantley (@_MiaBrantley) is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. As a trained sociologist, Dr. Brantley’s academic scholarship lies at the intersection of race, gender, and family within the context of health. Specifically, she utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to understand how the consequences of race shapes Black families’ health, well-being, and lived experiences. Her current research agenda includes: (1) How is race-related stress transmitted intergenerationally within Black Families, and (2) In what ways does race shape the health and lived experiences of Black mothers? Her goal is to provide both exploration and insight into the multiple pathways through which race-related stress impacts the well-being and lived experiences of Black families.

Vanessa Delgado (@VanessaD015) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. Broadly, her work explores the incorporation pathways of low-income Latino/a immigrant families. She employs qualitative methods to examine how immigration laws exacerbate social and economic inequality among low-income Latino/a immigrants and their children. Her research has been published in Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Forum, Sociology Compass, Socius, Social Sciences, Law & Policy, Journal of Latinos and Education, and featured in public outlets such as Latino Rebels, CalMatters, California Health Report, and Northwest News Network. 

Hope Harvey(@HopeMHarvey) is an assistant professor in the University of Kentucky’s Martin School of Public Policy and Department of Sociology and an affiliate of the Center for Poverty Research. She studies poverty and inequality, housing, and family and household complexity. Her first book, Doubled-Up: How Shared Households Shape Family Life, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. She has received funding and awards from the Institute for Research on Poverty, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Social Security Administration, and other groups, and her research has appeared in several journals including Demography, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Public Administration Research. She holds a Ph.D. in social policy and sociology from Harvard University, and she completed postdoctoral research at Cornell University. 

Jamie O’Quinn (@JamieOQuinn1) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research explores how the family and the state reproduce sexual inequalities for youth. Their research for the CCF Scholars program examines the experiences of women who were married as minors in the United States, with a focus on how young women navigate and resist family violence prior to marriage.