Prior to joining the USU faculty, she held an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. Prof. Bailey’s research focuses on race and inequality. She has a contemporary strain investigating individual and community effects of the U.S. military, and an historical line of work that examines racial violence in the American South. Her work has appeared in outlets including The American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Population Research and Policy Review. Prof. Bailey earned her PhD in 2008 and MA in 2004 from the University of Washington. She holds a BA in women’s studies and health from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Faculty & Research