Sherman James, Professor, Public Policy
Email Address: sjames@duke.edu
Specialties:
Health
Social Policy
Immigration and Migration
Psychology
Education:
PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1973
A.B., Talladega College, Talladega, AL, 1964
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- PUBPOL 229S.01, Poverty, inequality, & health
- Rubenstein 151, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Roberts, C. B., Vines, A. I., Kaufman, J. S., James, S. A., Cross-Sectional Association between Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension in African-American Men and Women: The Pitt County Study, American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 167 no. 5 (March, 2008), pp. 624-632 .
- James SA, VanHoewyk J., Belli RF, Strogatz DS, Williams DR, Life-course Socioeconomic Position and Risk for Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96 no. 5 (May, 2006), pp. 812-817 .
- Lucove JC, Kaufman JS, James SA, Adult and Childhood Socio-economic Status and Metabolic Syndrome among African Americans: the Pitt County Study, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97 (February, 2007), pp. 234-236 .
- Bennett GG, Wolin KY, James SA, Lifecourse socioeconomic position and weight change among Blacks: The Pitt County Study, Obesity, vol. 15 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 172-181 .
- Haratatos J, Mahalingam R, James SA, John Henryism, Self-Reported Physical Health Indicators, and the Mediating Role of Perceived Stress among High Socioeconomic Status Asian Immigrants, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 64 (February, 2007), pp. 1192-1203 .