Tamkinat Rauf

Tamkinat Rauf is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with additional affiliation at the Center for Demography and Ecology. Her research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being through the interplay of macrosocial forces and proximate biological-social processes.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University (2023)

Dr. Rauf's primary research areas encompass Social Stratification, Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, and Social Psychology. She investigates income-mental health relationships across the life course, genetic-social causes of depression, and how well-being scholarship shapes political inequality preferences. Her methodological toolkit features panel data analysis, sociogenomics, and survey experiments.

Her recent publications reveal consistent interdisciplinary focus on well-being disparities, bridging sociology, genetics, and political science. Key themes include bereavement-income sensitivity, political context of infant health, and college's ideological effects, appearing in top journals like American Sociological Review and Social Psychology Quarterly.

As faculty, she maintains active collaboration with the Center for Demography and Ecology, contributing to demographic research initiatives at UW–Madison.