Biography

Dr. Anthony Ureña is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University - Newark. He previously served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Anthony earned his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, where he was a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow. He holds a B.A. in both Sociology and Human Biology from Brown University. Anthony is a Brooklyn native and was raised by his parents from the Dominican Republic.

Anthony’s substantive areas of research interest encompass the intersections of race & ethnicity, gender & sexuality, and risk. He is particularly interested in health inequality and perceptions of illness. Anthony specializes in qualitative research methods, with particular expertise on semi-structured interviews, participant-observation and ethnography, as well as survey administration and analysis. 

Anthony's research has been generously supported by fellowships, scholarships, and grants from prestigious institutions like The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Social Science Research Council, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation).

As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Anthony volunteered at several HIV/AIDS NGOs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to produce a comparative ethnography detailing the persistence of the epidemic in the city’s metropolitan and slum neighborhoods. Anthony has continuously complemented his scholarship with a deep commitment to teaching in the social sciences, as well as mentorship through his service to the Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program, GSAS-Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program, SSRC-Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, and the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers.