Kendall Riley is a sociology doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology of Criminology at the University of Iowa. Her expertise lies at the intersections of sociology of health, punishment, race, gender, and quantitative methodologies. Kendall is a fellow with the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, American Sociological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program, and American Society of Criminology’s Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

Kendall’s research examines how the social environment becomes biologically embedded and perpetuates health inequalities across race, place, and gender. Her dissertation, Women’s Aging in the Shadow of the Carceral State, develops multi-institutional measures of the state-level social environment to estimate the health costs experienced by Black and White women related to how states mobilize coercive, surveilling, and punitive control across institutions of social control. Kendall’s work has been published in Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Aging and Health, and the Journal of Crime and Justice.   

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