IU School of Liberal Arts

Tamara G.J. Leech

Campus Address: CA303
Phone: (317)278-5204
Fax: (317)278-3654
Email: tleech@iupui.edu
Email

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Education

B.A., Princeton University, 2000
M.A., University of Michigan, 2002
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2006

Academic Interests

Adolescent Health Risk Behavior
Urban Communities and Neighborhoods
Racial and Gender Contexts
Health Disparities

Teaching

Social Factors in Health and Illness(R381), Quantitative Methods(R551), Community(R330)

Awards

Tonja Conour Faculty Service Award, University College 2011 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellow 2010-2011, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Grantee, 2007-2008
Butler University Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007
National Science Foundation Fellow, 2000-2004
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, 1996-2000

Publications

Leech, Tamara. 2010. “Everything’s Better in Moderation: Young Women’s Gender Attitudes and Risky Sexual Behavior” Journal of Adolescent Health Leech, Tamara and Edrose Potts. 2010. "Community Empowerment through an Academic Product: Implications for the Social Justice-Oriented Scholar" Journal of African American Studies Leech, Tamara. (2011). “The Treatment Effect of Public and Subsidized Housing Residence: Disentangling the Relationship between Housing Assistance and Teen Violence and Substance Use” Youth and Society

Service

Chair, Study Group on Trauma and Violence in Diverse Populations SSSP Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Student Paper Competition Committee
MidNorth Public Safety Committee Consultant

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