Emily Walton

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Sociology

  • Faculty Director, Society of Fellows

At my core, I am a race scholar. My work brings a racial lens and a broad methodological toolkit to bear on enduring questions in sociology's health and community subfields. The increased immigration of people of color to the United States over the past half-century demands a rethinking of longstanding sociological theories and conventional wisdom regarding racial integration and immigrant assimilation. My research raises important questions about the consequences of this demographic transition, offers novel theoretical frameworks for addressing these questions, and provides new empirical evidence about racial disparities and inequality in the United States.

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Emily.C.Walton@dartmouth.edu
Blunt Alum Ctr, Room 306B
HB 6104

Department(s)

Sociology

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Washington
  • M.A., University of Washington
  • B.S. The Evergreen State College

Selected Publications

  • Walton, Emily. November 2025. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/homesick

  • Walton, Emily. Forthcoming 2025. "Drawing Citizenship Boundaries to Exclude in Rural Northern New England." Seeing Race in Rural Space: Racialized Structures and Frames in the United States. Kenneth Robinson, Angie Carter, Keiko Tanaka, and Mark Harvey, eds. University of North Carolina Press.

  • Tseng, Marilyn, Emily Walton, Brian Egleston, and Carolyn Fang. 2024. "Pandemic Effects on Social Capital in Residents and Non-Residents of Chinese Immigrant Enclaves in Philadelphia." Wellbeing, Space & Society. 6(2024) online first: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100185 

  • Walton, Emily. 2023. "Misrecognition and Well-being in Culturally White Northern New England." Rural Sociology. 88(3): 895-927 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12505 

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