Jacob Cheadle

Jacob Cheadle is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he co-directs the Life in Frequencies Health Disparities (LifeHD) Research Lab with Dr. Bridget Goosby. His research centers on social interaction dynamics, affect regulation, and biosocial mechanisms of discrimination, employing advanced methodologies like ambulatory biosensors, neuroimaging, and social network analysis.

• Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
• Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Program Research Scholar (Cohort XII), University of Michigan

His work investigates how racial discrimination affects emotional life and health outcomes through stress reactivity, using ecological momentary assessments, daily diaries, and neurophysiological experiments. Current methodological development includes real-time emotion tracking to map social dynamics across lifespans.

Key research trends integrate social neuroscience with sociology, focusing on:

• Discrimination's physiological impacts
• Stress biomarker analysis
• Network approaches to affective dynamics
• Minority health inequities
• Technological innovation in social research

Scientific recognition includes

• NIH Grant Funding
• Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship

His publications appear in interdisciplinary venues like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuroimage, and Psychophysiology, with recent work expanding to population neuroscience approaches for discrimination studies.

Lab affiliations: LifeHD Research Lab (co-directed), focusing on biosocial pathways to health disparities through integrated network analysis and physiological monitoring. Teaching includes advanced courses in social statistics, network analysis, and neuro-biosocial dynamics.