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Biography

Dr. Jessica Casimir-Vadeboncoeur is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She is a medical sociologist and qualitative health researcher who explores the intersections of chronic illness, disability, and structural inequities in healthcare and society. As a qualitative methodologist, she specializes in ethnography, narrative medicine, and participatory research, using storytelling as data to illuminate how individuals experience and navigate chronicity, disability, and medical systems. Dr. Casimir’s research critically examines the social determinants of health, with a focus on racial, gendered, and class disparities in chronic disease management, aging, and women's health. Her work challenges biomedical reductionism by centering the whole human experience, emphasizing the social and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and care.

Education

• Ph D, University of Florida
• MS, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• BS, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Teaching Interests

SOC 103: Human Society<br>SOC 245: Social Inequality<br>SOC 326: Sociology of Gender<br>SOC 373: Globalization<br>SOC 380: Ethnographic Research Methods<br>SOC 456: Medical Sociology

Research Interests

Political Economy of Health<br>Social Determinants of Health<br>Aging, Weathering, and the Life Course<br>Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice<br>Narrative Medicine & Patient Storytelling<br>Doctor-Patient Dynamics & Healthcare Institutions