Faculty > Shannon M. Monnat

Dr. Monnat specializes in race/ethnicity, social demography, health disparities, and gender. Her research examines the roles of race and spatial context on various health outcomes in the United States. She is currently exploring the differential effects of race on health status, non-infectious diseases, and addictions across rural vs. urban contexts. She also has an interest in the role of welfare reform on economic and social outcomes for women of color. Dr. Monnat has published her research in Gender & Society, The Journal of Black Studies, and Race, Gender, and Class.

Recent Courses Taught
 Soc 404 – Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
Soc 453 – Gender and Society
Soc 706 – Seminar in Advanced Statistical Analysis for the Social Sciences

Contact Dr. Monnat:
Office location: CBC-B 236
Email: shannon.monnat@unlv.edu

Current Research Projects

Individual and Structural Determinants of Health Outcomes
This research uses data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the County Characteristics Survey to examine the roles of individual characteristics and macro-level processes on health status and non-infectious diseases across counties in the United States. This project focuses specifically on the individual and contextual effects of race on health outcomes.

Multi-ethnic and Multi-racial Health in Nevada
With the shift in official racial/ethnic census categorization - and more recently, the shift in presidential politics in the US - the issue of multi-racial and multi-racial identity has become increasingly important in the United States. This grant-funded project seeks to understand the health contours of these shifts.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
This is a collaborative project with Dr. Colleen Morris and Katrina Farwig at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. This project involves a series of research studies that 1) examine the effects of specialized psychoeducational training on knowledge enhancement and reduced burnout among individuals who work with children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and 2) explore the types and severity of facial asymmetry among individuals with various syndromes.