Publications & Presentations
Social connection and cognitive health: A review of concepts, measures, and research priorities
DeAngelis, Reed; Burnside, Lindsey; O’Donnell, Darby; Hicken, Margaret; Umberson, Debra; Perry, Brea
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, 2026 May; 22(5), e71517
Industrial Air Toxicant Exposure and Individual Mortality: Evidence from the Americans' Changing Lives Cohort, 1986-2019
DeAngelis, Reed T; Burnside, Lindsey; Rigby, David; Mohai, Paul; Payne-Sturges, Devon; Hicken, Margaret T
Epidemiology. 2026 May 18: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000002005. Online ahead of print.
The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia
Higgins Tejera, César; Ware, Erin B; Hicken, Margaret T; Kobayashi, Lindsay C; Wang, Herong; Blostein, Freida; Zawistowski, Matthew; Mukherjee, Bhramar; Bakulski, Kelly M
Communications Medicine (London), 2024 Jul;4(1):142
A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
Rigby, David; Esposito, Michael H; Lee, Hedwig; Van Riper, David C; Hicken, Margaret T; Berrey, Stephen A
Scientific Data, 2025 Jan;12(1):31
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Monocyte DNA Methylation Age Acceleration
Hicken, M. T., Dou, J., Kershaw, K. N., Liu, Y., Hajat, A., & Bakulski, K. M.
JAMA network open 6, no. 11, 2023
Current Approaches to Measuring Local Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in Population Health Studies
Kershaw, K.N., Barber, S. and Hicken, M.T.,
Current Epidemiology Reports, 11(1), 2024, pp.32-43.
Evaluating Race in Air Pollution and Health Research: Race, PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure, and Mortality as a Case Study
Hicken, M.T., Payne-Sturges, D. and McCoy, E.
Current Environmental Health Reports, 2023. pp.1-11.
Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity: Proceedings of a Workshop
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2022).
Linking history to contemporary state-sanctioned slow violence through cultural and structural racism
Hicken MT, Miles L, Haile S, Esposito M.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021 Mar;694(1):48-58.
Structural racism: the rules and relations of inequity
Gee GC, Hicken MT.
Ethnicity & Disease, 2021;31(Suppl 1):293.
The Burden of Cultural Racism: Vigilance and Racial Health Inequities
Hicken MT, Stanton AG, Lee H
Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, 2019.
Walkable neighborhoods and cognition: implications for the design of health promoting communities
Sylvers DL, Hicken M, Esposito M, Manly J, Judd S, Clarke P
Journal of aging and health, 2022 Mar 2:08982643221075509.
Racial residential segregation and cognitive decline among older adults
Jang JB, Hicken MT, Clarke PJ, Sol K, Melendez R, Kim MH, Mullins M, Judd S
Innovation in Aging. 2019 Nov;3(Suppl 1):S26.
Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research
Hicken MT, Kravitz-Wirtz N, Durkee M, Jackson JS.
Social Science & Medicine, 2018. 199:11-18.
Death by a thousand cuts: The health consequences of Black respectability politics
Lee H, Hicken MT.
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 2016. 18(2-4):421-445.
All shut eye ain’t sleep: Racism-related vigilance and sleep quality
Hicken MT, Lee H, Ailshire J, Burgard S, Williams DR
Race and social problems, 2013. 5(2):100-112.
The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures
Hicken MT, Hing A, Lee H.
Social Science and Medicine, 2018. 199:157-166.
Understanding the intersection of race and place: the case of tuberculosis in Michigan
Noppert GA, Clarke P, Hicken MT, Wilson ML
BMC Public Health, 2019. 9(1):1669-1677.
How Cultural and Structural Racism Relates to Health Inequalities
Michigan Minds podcast