Katie R. Billings
Assistan Professor of Sociology
Office: Tisch 206B
Phone: (518) 580-5451
Email: kbillings@skidmore.edu
Personal Website:
Education
- PhD in Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2025
- MA in Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
- BA in Psychology, Dartmouth College, 2016
Research & Teaching Interests
Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Law & Society, Race, Class, & Gender, Stratification, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods
Biography
Katie R. Billings received her PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research addresses the creation and perpetuation of inequalities in health and in the law. She explores how social identities shape individuals鈥� beliefs, reasoning, and behaviors, and how these individual variations then exacerbate social inequalities using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her dissertation, 鈥淪urviving Suicide,鈥� examines how social identities affect cultural narratives about suicide experiences and how these narratives can inform suicide prevention and post-vention strategies.
Billings鈥� research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Sociological Association Culture Section, and she was recognized as the most promising junior health scholar by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences in 2024. Her research is published in Social Science & Medicine, the Law & Society Review, Sociological Perspectives, and The Utah Law Review. Billings is a proud first-generation college student.
Selected Publications
Billings, Katie R. [Forthcoming]. 鈥淢ental illness and culture鈥� in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, edited by W. C. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, and S. R. Quah. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Billings, Katie R. and Kathryne M. Young. 2022. Sociological Perspectives, 65(4) 637鈥�60.
Statz, Michele, Katie R. Billings, Jordan Wolf. 2022. Sociological Perspectives, 65(3) 485鈥�505.
Billings, Katie R., David A. Cort, Tannuja D. Rozario, and Derek P. Siegel. 2021. Social Science & Medicine, 269(2021) 113565.
Billings, Katie R. 2021. Sociological Perspectives, 64(2) 238鈥�57.
Young, Kathryne M. and Katie R. Billings. 2020. Law & Society Review, 54(1) 33鈥�65.