Matty Lichtenstein
Research areas
keywords:泭health disparities, maternal and infant health, child welfare policy, family governance, religion, research methods. 泭
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Dr. Matty Lichtenstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at 勛圖厙. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley, after which she assumed a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Brown University Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs. Dr. Lichtensteins areas of expertise include child welfare policy, maternal health disparities, family governance, religion, and qualitative and mixed-methods research. 泭
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Broadly, Dr. Lichtensteins work focuses on how categories of risk are constructed and institutionalized in American welfare and health governance.泭Her current book project examines how state and professional organizations shape socioeconomic inequalities in American maternal and child welfare. Related research investigates the rise in US maternal morbidity, racial disparities in medical reporting of substance-exposed infants, and the development of risk discourses in social work and medicine. In a second stream of research, she has studied educational advocacy, organizational change, and religious community.泭Her work has been recognized by the ASA Political Sociology section and supported by multiple fellowships and research grants.
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You can learn more about Dr. Lichtensteins work by visiting泭. She has partnered with non-profits to conduct research on maternal health and educational policy, and she is affiliate faculty with the 勛圖厙 Department of Jewish Studies.
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Selected Works:
泭Lichtenstein, Matty. Unseeing Poverty: Tracing the Origins of Inequality in American Child Welfare. Forthcoming in泭Policing or Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance. Eds. Jennifer Randles and Kerry Woodward. New York University Press, 2024.
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Edwards, Frank, Sarah Roberts, Kathleen Kenny, Mical Raz, Matty Lichtenstein, Mishka Terplan. The Prevalence and Racial Inequity of Child Protection Investigations Resulting from Medical Professional Reports in the US, 2010-2019.泭Health Equity,泭October 2023, (653-662). http://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0136.
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Lichtenstein, Matty. Legitimizing Discourses: Hasidic Schools, Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Deservingness.泭American Journal of Sociology,泭May 2022 (127:6). DOI: 10.1086/719926
**Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2021.
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Lichtenstein, Matty and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana. Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed Methods Approach for Large-Scale Textual Data.泭Sociological Methods and Research, February 2021. DOI: 10.1177/0049124120986191
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Lichtenstein, Matty. 2019. Younger People Want to Do It Themselves - Self-Actualization, Commitment, and the Reinvention of Community.泭Qualitative Sociology泭42(2):181203. DOI: 10.1007/s11133-019-9414-6