Jose Miguel Puente Puente (he/him) is a first-year sociology graduate student specializing in neighborhoods and health disparities. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico then moved to the U.S. at age 7. Jose has spent the majority of his life in Aurora, Colorado. He earned his associate degree from the Community College of Aurora (CCA) and then transferred to the Metropolitan State University of Denver for his BA in Sociology. Here is where he fell in love with quantitative methods and decided to continue his education at the University of Colorado Denver where he earned his MA. Jose realized his passion for research when taking a course and working with Dr. Adam M. Lippert. Jose aims to investigate the differences that neighborhoods enact on the health problems among foreign-ethnic racial groups.
Areas of Interest
- Neighborhoods
- Race and Ethnicity
- Health and Health Disparities
Degrees
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AACommunity College of Aurora, 2018
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BASociology, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2021
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MASociology, University of Colorado Denver, 2024
Awards
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2021-05-20Charles Fisher Award, awarded to the top graduating senior in sociology, Metropolitan State University
Conferences
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Lippert, Adam M. and Jose M. Puente Puente. “Development of a Multi-Dimensional Measure of the Neighborhood Health environment.” Poster presented at the Population Association of America, New Orleans LA, April 2023
