Tiffany D. Joseph

Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Tiffany Joseph is a graduate of Phillips Academy-Andover and Brown University. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. Her experiences in these institutions alongside receiving a Fulbright to study in Brazil shaped her research interests exploring: race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas; the influence of immigration on the social construction of race in the U.S., immigrants' health and healthcare access; the impact of policy on people’s lives, and the experiences of faculty of color in academia.

Dr. Joseph is the author of Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), which examines how documentation status, race, and ethnicity influence the healthcare access of immigrants after comprehensive health reform. She is also the author of Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race (Stanford University Press, 2015) that explores how US migration transforms Brazilian migrants’ understanding of race, racial classification and racism in the US and in Brazil after permanently returning. Along with Dr. Laura Hirshfield, she co-edited Reexamining Identity Taxation, Racism, and Sexism in the Academy (Routledge Press, 2023) which assesses how race, gender, and other social identities shape the experiences of faculty of color and women faculty in academia. Her award-winning research has been published in various peer reviewed journals and featured in national media outlets.

Dr. Joseph is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University.