Celeste Campos-Castillo

Associate Professor

Dr. Celeste Campos-Castillo is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research examines how new information and communication technologies may widen or narrow existing inequalities, with outcomes dependent on how well the design and implementation addresses digital divides and privacy concerns. The technologies she examines include social media, telehealth, patient portals, and electronic health records. The inequalities she examines are those along ethnoracial lines and gender, and she studies different age groups, but has a particular focus on high school aged adolescents. She is a methodologist and uses a range of research methods, including experiments, surveys, archives, interviews, and focus groups. Her research appears in academic journals such as Annual Review of Sociology, Health Affairs, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of the American Medical Informatics, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journals of Gerontology, and Sociological Theory. Her research has received funding from Meta Research, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, and Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness program. In addition, she has received several professional accolades and most recently received the 2022 Early Career Award from the Midwest Sociological Society. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Iowa in 2012 and from 2012 to 2014 she was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society at Dartmouth College. In January 2023, she will join the faculty in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University.