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PhD 2020, London School of Economics – Social Policy
\nMPH 2004, University of North Carolina School of Public Health – Health Behavior
\nBA 1999, Yale University – American Studies<\/p>\n

Tasseli McKay is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and core faculty in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Duke University and a social scientist in the Transformative Research Unit for Equity at RTI International.<\/p>\n

Dr. McKay serves as principal investigator on the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded project, \u201cInstitutional Contact and Family Violence in an Era of Mass Incarceration.\u201d She also worked for almost a decade on the Multi-site Family Study of Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering<\/a>, a mixed-method longitudinal study of two thousand families affected by incarceration. This culminated in her first book: Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry<\/em> (University of California Press, 2019) with Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir. McKay\u2019s most recent book, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration <\/em>(University of California Press, 2022), finds that the steep direct costs of mass-scale imprisonment are far overshadowed by its hidden costs to Black communities, many of which have been kept out of sight by women\u2019s labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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