Jessica Valles (PhD 2021) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Her research and teaching interests include aging and the life course, caregiving, family, mental health, and immigrant health.

Education:

• BA, University of North Florida, Sociology
• MA, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Sociology
  Title: Familial Support and Mental Health Service
  Use: Differences Among First- and Second-Generation Asian American and Latinx Older Adults.
• PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medical Sociology
  Title: “Caregiving and Depressive Symptomatology: Multi-National Testing of Role Strain Theory.”
  Dissertation Committee: Drs. Patricia Drentea (chair), Elizabeth Baker, Olivio Clay, Gregory Pavela, and David Warner.