Departments of Kinesiology and Public Health

Education

• PhD – Umass Amherst PhD in Public Health, Minor in Political Economy [Amherst, MA]

• MA – SIT Graduate Institute MA in Social Justice [Brattleboro, VT]

• BA – College of the Holy Cross, BA English Literature [Worcester, MA]

Teaching Specialties

• Rural Health
• Health disparities and structural violence
• Qualitative research
• Arts-based pedagogical approaches

Research Interests

• Rural health and communities
• Intimate partner violence
• Institutional ethnography
• Political-economic determinants of health
• Health activism and advocacy

Current Teaching

• Seminar in Rural Health PH 4650
• Foundations of Health Behavior PH 3700

Additional Affiliation

• Radio co-host and co-producer – Indigo Radio

Selected Publications

• Mullany, A., Cooper H.L.F., Bonilla, R., Fadanelli, M., Freeman, K., Hill-Rucker, J., Rushing, S., Sterk, C. (in press). “There are only so many fires you can put out:” Nonprofit structural constraints on service delivery for pregnant and postpartum women who use drugs in Appalachian North Georgia. Harm Reduction Journal. 

• Mullany, A.; Gubrium, A. (2024). Protecting anonymity in rural locales: The use of composite narratives in intimate partner violence research. Qualitative Health Research, (0)0. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241297091.

• Mullany, A. (2024). “Is she imminently fleeing?”: How discursive practices shape crisis center service delivery and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities for survivors. Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099241267940

• Mullany, A. (2024). The ACT in health activism: Teaching street theater to college students. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 10(2), 93-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/23733799231222466

• Mullany, A., Barbieri, M., Smith, S., Gubrium, A., Valdez, L. (2022). “Who is our real enemy?”: Internalized racism within the Puerto Rican diaspora and the role of political education in community health intervention. Social Science; Medicine, 311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115334

• Valdez, L., Mullany, A., Barbieri, M., Gubrium, A. (2022). Uncovering historical legacies to contextualize health inequities in Puerto Rican men: An expansion of the minority stress model. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 830184. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.830184

• Mullany, A., Valdez, L., Gubrium, A., Buchanan, D. (2020). Precarious work, health, and African- American men: A qualitative study on perceptions and experiences. International Journal of Health Services, 51(2), 135-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731420981850