Darius Scott
Title:
Assistant Professor
Research areas:
Health
Social geography
Cultural geography
Current research:
My ongoing research focuses on race, sexuality, and social determinants of health in North America. Guided by highly critical theories of social difference, major goals are using qualitative methods to understand (1) the nature of community-building beyond inequity in addition to (2) the convergence of racial, sexual, and gender minority stigma. My work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation (US), and Social Science Research Council.
Current Projects:
- Analyzing effects of intersectional stigma on health and perceptions of urban environments
- Identifying challenges to well-being for Black gender and sexual minorities in Montreal
Degree(s):
- PhD Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Health Equity Research, UNC School of Medicine
Selected publications:
- Scott, Darius. Stigma in place: Black gay men's experiences of the rural South. Health & Place. 68. 2021.
- Scott, Darius. Normalized alterity: visualizing Black spatial humanities. GeoHumanities. 2021.
- Scott, D., Pereira, N., Harrison, S., Zarwell, M., Sanasi-Bhola, K., & T. Poteat. “In the Bible Belt:” the role of religion in HIV care and prevention for transgender people in the US South. Health & Place. 2021.
- Scott, Darius. Uncaring landscapes and HIV peer support in the rural Southern United States. Social Science & Medicine. 2021.
- Scott, Darius. Oral history and emplacement in ‘nowhere at all:’ the role of personal and family narratives in rural black community-building. Social & Cultural Geography. 20 (8): 1094-1113. 2019.
Group:
Faculty