Stigma

Stigma, comprising negative attitudes or beliefs ascribed to certain attributes and characteristics, is also closely associated with discrimination in ways that commonly undermine health in stigmatized people.

Stigma and discrimination have impacts across the health care continuum, impeding access to care, treatment, and other resources as well as negatively impacting mental health and well-being directly. They also lead to responses that extend beyond the provision of health services to include legal, policy and other efforts to address the intersectional realties of stigmatized difference.

Scholars at UCSC employ human rights, social justice and person-centered approaches to situate experiences of discrimination and stigma in cultural and historical context while also addressing the broader inequalities and hierarchies that discrimination and stigma can reproduce.

Heather E Bullock

• Title
  • Director, Center for Economic Justice and Action
• Department
  • Psychology Department
• Campus Email
  • hbullock@ucsc.edu

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

• Title
  • Associate Professor
• Department
  • Film and Digital Media Department
• Campus Email
  • jtaylo5@ucsc.edu

Megan Colleen Moodie

• Pronouns
  • she, her, her, hers, herself
• Title
  • Associate Professor
• Department
  • Anthropology Department
• Campus Email
  • mmoodie@ucsc.edu
• Faculty Areas of Expertise
  • Ethnography

Jaimie Morse

• Pronouns
  • she, her, her, hers, herself
• Title
  • Assistant Professor
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • jmorse1@ucsc.edu
• Faculty Areas of Expertise
  • Sociology

Justin Perez

• Pronouns
  • he/him
• Title
  • Assistant Professor
• Department
  • Latin American & Latino Studies
• Campus Email
  • jdaperez@ucsc.edu

Stacy M Philpott

• Pronouns
  • she, her, her, hers, herself
• Title
  • Professor
• Department
  • Environmental Studies Department
• Campus Email
  • sphilpot@ucsc.edu
• Faculty Areas of Expertise
  • Ecology

Matt Sparke

• Pronouns
  • he, him
• Title
  • Professor
• Department
  • Politics Department
• Campus Email
  • msparke@ucsc.edu
• Faculty Areas of Expertise
  • Capitalism

Anna L Tsing

• Title
  • Professor
• Department
  • Anthropology Department
• Campus Email
  • atsing@ucsc.edu

Anjuli Verma

• Title
  • Assistant Professor of Politics
• Department
  • Politics Department
• Campus Email
  • acverma@ucsc.edu
• Faculty Areas of Expertise
  • Law and Policy