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Liz Felix serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas, where her academic work centers on mental health stigma, medical sociology, social networks, and crime/deviance studies. Her research program systematically investigates status processes that drive the devaluation and social exclusion of individuals with mental illness through both micro-level social interactions and macro-level societal representations.
Her scholarship critically examines how mental health stigma intersects with gender and sexual minority status to shape discriminatory experiences, with particular attention to associative stigma within family networks. Methodologically, she integrates social network analysis with cognitive frameworks to study stigma enactment and perception, as evidenced by her publications in Society and Mental Health, Social Science and Medicine, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior. She teaches foundational courses including The Sociology of Mental Health and Crime and Society.
Analysis of her 2018-2025 publications reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) mental health stigma in mass violence contexts (e.g., labeling potential shooters), (2) network-based investigations of associative stigma and social contact dynamics, and (3) campus climate disparities related to race and international student status. Her work consistently demonstrates interdisciplinary rigor by bridging sociological theory with psychological mechanisms and public health implications.
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