Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Life Course & Aging; Health Equity; Reproductive Health; Demography

Allison Stolte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her research examines how socially stratified stressors—such as discrimination—and broader structural and social contexts—such as policies and neighborhood characteristics—shape health inequities across time, place, and the life course. Her recent work leverages birth outcomes to explore the intergenerational transmission of health and social disadvantage. She is also involved in projects that aim to make social science research more inclusive of hard-to-reach populations and that improve how social scientists measure health indicators, including fetal death and health equity.

She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Public Policy in 2023 and a Master in Public Policy in 2017, both from Duke University. Before joining UVA, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine. She also worked at the Urban Institute prior to her graduate training.