Abigail Fisher Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Fisher Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail Fisher |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4697-2895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who gets to define flourishing? Disentangling social science from theology in flourishing measurement and policy prescriptions
In this essay, we advance a conversation initiated on these pages by the recent special issue on “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue” (Willen, 2022; Willen, Williamson, and Walsh 2022), followed by a response from VanderWeele and the Human Flourishing Program team (VanderWeele et al., 2023). We were pleased to learn of their agreement with several of the concerns we raised — among them the …
Rethinking flourishing
In recent years, human flourishing and its relationship to mental health have attracted significant attention in a wide range of fields. As an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods team with strong roots in critical medical anthropology and critical public health, we are intrigued by the possibility that a focus on flourishing may reinvigorate health research, policy, and clinical care in transformative ways. Yet current proposals to this effect, we c…
Visualizing Health Equity
BACKGROUND: Health educators and advocacy groups often use side-by-side visual images to communicate about equity and to distinguish it from equality. Despite the near-ubiquity of these images, little is known about how they are understood by different audiences. AIMS: To assess the effectiveness of an image commonly used to communicate about health equity. METHOD: In 167 interviews with health stakeholders in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, in 2018 to …
Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants
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Welcoming New Americans?
Mechanisms of declining intra-ethnic trust in newly diverse immigrant destinations
Some recent findings suggest that increasing ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion within ethnic groups. Prevailing findings indicate that diversity is connected to declines in some forms of trust but not consistently to declines in participation. I evaluate the extent to which three proposed mechanisms—divergent norms, networks and preferences—might explain this phenomenon. The mechanisms all suggest that diversity contri…
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Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…
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Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…
Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mechanisms of declining intra-ethnic trust in newly diverse immigrant destinations
Some recent findings suggest that increasing ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion within ethnic groups. Prevailing findings indicate that diversity is connected to declines in some forms of trust but not consistently to declines in participation. I evaluate the extent to which three proposed mechanisms—divergent norms, networks and preferences—might explain this phenomenon. The mechanisms all suggest that diversity contri…
See no Spanish
Certain explanations of Americans ’ immigration attitudes emphasize threats to national identity and culture. But we do not know the specific sources of cultural threat, and we do not know whether it operates locally. In case studies of new immigrant destinations, native-born residents commonly voice concerns about the prevalence of Spanish, suggesting that foreign languages might be one such source of threat. This paper uses survey experiments t…
Mechanisms of declining intra-ethnic trust in newly diverse immigrant destinations
Some recent findings suggest that increasing ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion within ethnic groups. Prevailing findings indicate that diversity is connected to declines in some forms of trust but not consistently to declines in participation. I evaluate the extent to which three proposed mechanisms—divergent norms, networks and preferences—might explain this phenomenon. The mechanisms all suggest that diversity contri…
Welcoming New Americans?
Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Visualizing Health Equity
BACKGROUND: Health educators and advocacy groups often use side-by-side visual images to communicate about equity and to distinguish it from equality. Despite the near-ubiquity of these images, little is known about how they are understood by different audiences. AIMS: To assess the effectiveness of an image commonly used to communicate about health equity. METHOD: In 167 interviews with health stakeholders in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, in 2018 to …
Rethinking flourishing
In recent years, human flourishing and its relationship to mental health have attracted significant attention in a wide range of fields. As an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods team with strong roots in critical medical anthropology and critical public health, we are intrigued by the possibility that a focus on flourishing may reinvigorate health research, policy, and clinical care in transformative ways. Yet current proposals to this effect, we c…
Who gets to define flourishing? Disentangling social science from theology in flourishing measurement and policy prescriptions
In this essay, we advance a conversation initiated on these pages by the recent special issue on “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue” (Willen, 2022; Willen, Williamson, and Walsh 2022), followed by a response from VanderWeele and the Human Flourishing Program team (VanderWeele et al., 2023). We were pleased to learn of their agreement with several of the concerns we raised — among them the …
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Flourishing (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)