Kayla D. Allison Source Confirmed

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

7 h-index 15 pubs 172 cited

Research Areas

Health disparities and outcomes Racial and Ethnic Identity Research HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Social and Intergroup Psychology Education Systems and Policy Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Homelessness and Social Issues

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Kayla D. Allison's research investigates the intersections of societal structures, health outcomes, and public policy. Her work examines the lasting impacts of historical inequities, such as slavery, on health disparities within African American communities in the Deep South, particularly concerning HIV/AIDS. Allison also studies the relationship between punishment within educational systems and long-term self-rated health, extending from adolescence into midlife.

Further research areas include the analysis of violence, with a focus on gender dynamics in mass shootings, and the examination of police responses to individuals experiencing homelessness. She has also contributed to the development of open-source data approaches for studying bias-motivated homicides. Allison's scholarship is marked by an h-index of 7 and 172 citations across 15 publications. Key collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville include Michael Niño, Grant Drawve, and Alexia Angton.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 15
  • Citations: 172

Selected Publications

  • An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB) (2026) DOI
  • Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy (2025) DOI
  • Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness (2024) DOI
  • The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife (2024) DOI
  • Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence (2022) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Kayla D. Allison University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Michael Niño University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Grant Drawve University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Alexia Angton University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Kathryn Norton-Smith University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Kaitlyn Campbell University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Jeff Gruenewald University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication

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