Sherrill Sellers
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000. Interests: race/ethnicity across the life course, health consequences of social inequalities, and intergenerational relations. Current research: goal striving stress, mental and physical health consequences of social mobility, integration of race/ethnicity, class, and gender in mental health research. Contact InformationUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison - Social Work
303 School of Social Work
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 263-3677
Fax: 263-3836
Email: slsellers@wisc.edu EducationUniversity of Chicago, M.A.,Social Service Administration 1991
University of Michigan, M.A., Sociology 1995
University of Michigan, Ph.D., Social Work and Sociology, 2000 Research InterestsSherrill Sellers received her PhD in Social Work and Sociology from the University of Michigan. Professor Sellers teaches in the social policy, direct practice, and mental health areas. She is actively involved in policy research and publishes in the areas of race/ethnicity, gender, social stratification and health. Her most recent work considers how and under what conditions race and gender independently and interactively connect to produce differences in mental and physical health outcomes. Sellers integrates a life course perspective and the stress paradigm to examine racial disparities in health, related projects include a study of goal striving stress, an investigation of impact of racial discrimination on hypertension among high status black men, and research on race and gender differences in depressive and alcohol disorders. Sellers is also the Associate Investigator for a multi-phased project to study physicians? understanding of human genetic variation and their beliefs about the relationships among race, genetics, and disease. Research and Professional SpecialtiesAffiliate, Robert M. La Follette, School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2007-
Member, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2004-
Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2002-
Steering Committee, Center for Demography and Ecology. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2001-
Adjunct Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. 1999-
Selected PublicationsSellers, S. L. and Neighbors, H. (in press).The effects of goal-striving stress on the mental health of black Americans. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Sellers, S.L., Bonham, V., Neighbors, H. and Amell, J. 2006. Effects of racial discrimination and health promoting behaviors on mental and physical health of middle-class African American men. Health Education and Behavior.
Sosulski, M., Cunningham, A., and Sellers, S.L. 2006. Fostering HOPE: Narrative analysis of one teen mom?s pursuit of a college education. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. 21(3): 1-16.
Sellers, S. L., Smith, T., Mathesien, S., and Perry, R. 2006. Perceptions of professional social work journals: Findings from a national survey. Journal of Social Work Education. 42(1): 139-160.
Sellers, S. L., Ward, E. and Pate, D. 2006. Dimensions of depression: A qualitative study of wellbeing among black African immigrant women. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice. 5(1): 45-66.
A portion of the study in: Ward, E., Sellers, S. L. and Pate, D. A qualitative study of depression among black African immigrant women: Is it just madness. African American Perspectives.
Sellers, S.L. and Hunter, A. 2005. Private pain, public choices: Influence of problems in the family of origin on career choices among a cohort of MSW students. Social Work Education. 24(8): 869-881.
Cash, S., Sellers, S.L. and Claps, M. 2005. Money equals time: Influence of poverty status on hours spent doing housework. Journal of Poverty. 9(2): 89-109.
Bonham, V., Sellers, S.L. and Neighbors, H. 2004. John Henryism and Physical Health among High SES African American Men. American Journal of Public Health. 94(5): 737-738.
Sellers, S. L., Mathesien, S., Perry, R. and Smith, T. 2004. Evaluation of social work journal quality: Citation vs reputation approaches. Journal of Social Work Education. 40(1): 143-160.
Brown, T., Sellers, S. L. and Gomez, J. 2002. The relationship between internalization and self-esteem among black adults. Sociological Focus, 35(1): 55-71.
Carter, P., Sellers, S. L. and Squire, C. 2002. Reflections on race/ethnicity, class, and gender inclusive research. African American Perspectives, 8(1): 111-124. (Authors listed alphabetically).
Sellers, S. L. 2001. Social mobility and psychological distress: Gender differences among black American men and women. African American Perspectives, 7(1): 117-147.
Brown, T., Williams, D. R., Jackson, J. S., Neighbors, H., Sellers, S.L., Torres, M. and Brown, K. 2000. Being black and feeling blue: The mental health consequences of racial discrimination. Race & Society, 2(2):117-131.
Hunter, A. and Sellers, S. L. 1998. Feminist attitudes among African American women and men. Gender & Society, 12(1): 81-99. (Authors listed alphabetically).
Jackson, J. S., Brown, T., Williams, D., Torres, M., Sellers, S.L. and Brown, K. 1996. Racism and the physical and mental health status of African Americans: A thirteen year national panel study. Ethnicity and Disease, 6(1,2): 132-147.
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