Emily Walton
Professor of Sociology
Faculty Director, Society of Fellows
Emily Walton brings a racial lens to enduring questions about community, health, and inequality. As expanded immigration and desegregation policies have encouraged racial integration in many of our nation's communities, her mixed methods research has pushed scholars in both sociology and public health to rethink old assumptions about racial integration and assimilation. Her recent book, Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England, examines the consequences of the demographic transition happening in the Upper Valley. Her work has drawn support from the National Institutes of Health and the Russell Sage Foundation, and she serves as Faculty Director of Dartmouth's Society of Fellows.
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Department(s)
Sociology
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington
- M.A., University of Washington
- B.S. The Evergreen State College
Selected Publications
Walton, Emily. November 2025. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/homesick
Walton, Emily. Forthcoming 2025. "Drawing Citizenship Boundaries to Exclude in Rural Northern New England." Seeing Race in Rural Space: Racialized Structures and Frames in the United States. Kenneth Robinson, Angie Carter, Keiko Tanaka, and Mark Harvey, eds. University of North Carolina Press.
Tseng, Marilyn, Emily Walton, Brian Egleston, and Carolyn Fang. 2024. "Pandemic Effects on Social Capital in Residents and Non-Residents of Chinese Immigrant Enclaves in Philadelphia." Wellbeing, Space & Society. 6(2024) online first: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100185
Walton, Emily. 2023. "Misrecognition and Well-being in Culturally White Northern New England." Rural Sociology. 88(3): 895-927 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12505