Chenesia Brown

Research

Using mostly secondary data, statistical, and geospatial analysis, my scholarship broadly explores the intersections of the sociological study of place, demographics, and social outcomes in mid-sized and smaller cities and metropolitan areas. My current research focuses on the role of the built environment on health outcomes while accounting for structural factors of place, specifically crime, greenspaces, and food access. My past research has explored new and emerging forms of racial disparities in healthcare and criminal justice systems with regards to place and space. Future research will broadly continue analysis of social outcomes of the physical built environment, covering the sociopolitical outcomes of spatial boundaries and continue focusing on small places with big issues. How places come to be are not purely happenstance and therefore neither are the social outcomes.

Education

Ph.D. University of Delaware, Newark, 2024
M.A. University of Delaware, Newark, 2018
B.A. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2015

Courses Taught

• GIS: Mapping, Methods and the Built Environment
• Introductory Sociology
• Social Problems
• Social Movements
• Intro to Social Work

Select Publications

Jascha Wagner; Ellen A. Donnelly; Andrew C. Gray; Chenesia Brown; Cresean Hughes; Daniel O’Connell; Tammy L. Anderson (2023) Race and Rationality Revisited: An Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs across Geographic Contexts. American Journal of Criminal Justice, https://doi-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s12103-023-09742-8

Donnelly, E. A., Brown, C. L., McBride, A., Beletsky, L., & Anderson, T. L. (2022). Emerging Disparities in the Placement of Law Enforcement-Based Treatment Referral and Recovery Programs.Criminal Justice Review, 07340168221117109.

Brooks, M., MPH, Brown, C. B., MA, PhD(c), Liu, W., PhD,& Siegel, S. D., PhD, MHCDS. (2020) Mapping the ChristianaCare response to COVID-19: Clinical insights from the Value Institute’s Geospatial Analytics Core. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 6(2A), 66-71. doi:https://djph.org