Health and Society
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Alyssa Newman, Ph.D.
Alyssa M. Newman is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown. Her research currently focuses on the intersection of race and assisted reproductive technologies, as well as on institutional solutions to racial health disparities. She has also published extensively on multiraciality, exploring the topic through a variety of research projects related to collective identity formation, biology and genetics, the intersection of mixedness and masculinity, immigration, and family relationships and reproduction.
Volume 36, Issue 3: “Moving Beyond Mistrust: Centering Institutional Change by Decentering the White Analytical Lens” p.231-233
Volume 6, Issue 2: “Black sperm donors: motivations and hesitations,” p.231-233
Volume 38, Issue 8: “Mixing and Matching: Sperm Donor Selection for Interracial Lesbian Couples,” p.710-724
Additional Publications:
“Institutional Problems, Individual Solutions – The Burden on Black Physicians,”
“Desiring The Standard Light Skin: Black Multiracial Boys, Masculinity And Exotification.“