Bio

Dr. Volpe is an applied health psychologist with a focus on health equity. Broadly, she studies the ways that race-related stress and stress from other intersectional forms of oppression impact the health outcomes of Black people from across the African diaspora in the United States. She has a particular focus on online, technological, and structural contexts and processes during late adolescence and young adulthood. She employs an eclectic set of methodologies to answer research questions about health, oppression, and empowerment, from laboratory-based physiological studies to community-engaged research, encompassing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods analytic approaches. She is currently focused on understanding the complex and dynamic ways that race- and gendered-race related experiences in online and technological environments provide both challenges to health and opportunities for liberation.

Specific research areas: Black communities, stress and coping, psychophysiology, online contexts and technology, social media, strengths/protective factors, cardiovascular risk, health behaviors.

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/black-health-lab

Research Publications

Find a list of all her publications at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S1O7lfIAAAAJ Be sure to sort by year to see the most recent work. Please observe the representative publications (publications for which she is the lead author and executor, that represent her expertise and substantive research areas).