Kristin Turney

Kristin Turney is dean’s professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and professor by courtesy in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). At UCI, she is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy, the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and the Initiative to End Family Violence. Additionally, she is  a research affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. She has been a senior fellow with the University of California Criminal Justice and Health Consortium and affiliate with the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar. Turney's research investigates the role of stressors in creating, maintaining, and exacerbating social inequalities in health and wellbeing. Her current approach seeks to understand the repercussions of stressors (particularly, but not exclusively, those stemming from the criminal legal system) on families and children. Turney holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

updated 2024