Dr. Angela Frederick
Angela Frederick is Associate Professor of Sociology at UTEP. Dr. Frederick is a medical sociologist with expertise in disability, race/ethnicity, gender, and social class. She earned her doctorate in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at UTEP, Dr. Frederick was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College, where she was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Faculty Member Award.
In her latest project, Dr. Frederick is examining the lived experiences of people with disabilities and chronic health conditions during Winter Storm Uri and the 2021 Texas blackouts. Drawing from 58 in-depth interviews she has conducted with Texans with disabilities, Dr. Frederick’s findings illuminate the embodied burdens disabled people endured during this disaster, as well as the agency and care work they performed for others. She is currently working on a book manuscript, which is tentatively titled, Disabled Power: People with Disabilities, Winter Storm Uri, and the 2021 Texas Power Crisis.
In another line of research, Dr. Frederick is part of a research team conducting a longitudinal qualitative study of the trajectories of Hispanic/Latinx young adults pursuing health-related careers. Dr. Frederick is first-author on a recent series of articles, which focus on how family context shapes these young adults’ graduate school and career decisions, how these young adults actively negotiate the competing demands of family responsibilities and their career goals, and how they employ their science knowledge to better their communities.
Dr. Frederick’s prior publications have garnered awards from multiple sections of the American Sociological Association, including the Sex and Gender Section, Race Gender and Class Section, and Disability and Society section. Her work has appeared in numerous sociology journals, including Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, and Social Currents. In addition, she has published work in interdisciplinary journals, including Science Education, CBE – Life Sciences Education, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Disability & Society.
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Selected Publications
Frederick, Angela, Sara Grineski, Timothy Collins, Heather Daniels, and Danielle X. Morales. 2021. “The Emerging STEM Paths and Science Identities of Hispanic/Latinx College Students: Examining the Importance of Multiple Undergraduate Research Experiences.” CBE Life Sciences Education 20(2).
Frederick, Angela, Heather Daniels, Sara Grineski, and Timothy Collins. 2019. “’I’ve Never Felt Like That Inhibits Anything’: The Gendered Frameworks of Latina College Students in a STEM Program.” Gender & Education 32(5):646-663.
Frederick, Angela. 2018. “Disabling Fields, Enabling Capital: Mothers With Disabilities and the Concerted Cultivation Habitus.” Disability Studies Quarterly 34(4).
Frederick, Angela, and Dara Shifrer. 2018. “Race and Disability: From Analogy to Intersectionality.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (5)2: https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218783480
- Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. American Sociological Association, Race, Gender and Class Section (2020).
Frederick, Angela, Kylara Leyva, and Grace Lavin. 2018. “The Double Edge of Legitimacy: How Women with Disabilities Interpret Good Mothering.” Social Currents (6)2:163-176.
Frederick, Angela. 2017. “Visibility, Respectability, and Disengagement: The Everyday Resistance of Mothers with Disabilities.” Social Science & Medicine 181:131-138.
Frederick, Angela. 2017. “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project: Women with Disabilities Negotiate Scientific Motherhood.” Gender & Society 31(1):74-95.
- Distinguished Article Award. American Sociological Association, Sex & Gender Section (2018).
- Honorable Mention, Star-Nelkin Paper Award. American Sociological Association, Science, Knowledge & Technologies Section (2018).
- Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award. American Sociological Association, Disability & Society Section (2017).
Frederick, Angela. 2015. “Between Stigma and Mother-Blame: Blind Mothers’ Experiences in USA Hospital Postnatal Care.” Sociology of Health and Illness 37(8):1127-1141.
Contact Information
Email: ahfrederick2@utep.edu
Phone: 1-915-747-7320
Fax: 1-915-747-5505
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