Jackie Cosse

Jackie Cosse

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PhD Candidate

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publications

Deconstructing Latinx racial paradigms : cross-cultural constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American racial identity

Published in Smith College School for Social Work, 2016

A masters thesis and qualitative study examining how Dominican immigrants to the U.S. navigated shifting constructions of race from the D.R. to the U.S.; specifically, from constructions rooted in Spanish colonialism and entrenched anti-Blackness/anti-Haitianism, to constructions shaped by Black-American experience and U.S. racial history. Participants discussed being differently categorized, navigating the racial landscape of the U.S. and its differences from that of the D.R., and the impacts of both on mental health, challenging treatments of Latine identity as a singular, monolithic category. Recipient of the Smith College Alumni Association Thesis Award for Students of Color.

Recommended citation: Cosse, Jacqueline I., "Deconstructing Latinx racial paradigms : cross-cultural constructions of race and their impact on Dominican-American racial identity." (2016). Masters Thesis, Smith College, Northampton, MA. https://scholarworks.smith.edu/theses/1710
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Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults

Published in Social Science and Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, 2024

A qualitative study examining how multiplicatively marginalized LGBTQ adults (across disability, race, sexuality, gender, class, and more) conceptualize health, tracing how participant constructions reflect personal, social, cultural, and political subjectivities alongside, against, and beyond institutionalized discourses of health and illness.

Recommended citation: Cosse, J., Hudson, K., & Romanelli, M. (2024). Medicine, access, spirit, and survival: An intersectional look at concepts of health among a diverse sample of LGBTQ adults. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100395.
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Police Violence Exposure Among Young Adults in a US National Probability Sample

Published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2026

Using a national probability sample of 1,077 U.S. young adults, this study finds that young people’s exposure to police violence is notable (14.9% overall) and significantly more prevalent among non-Latine Black respondents across all four measured sub-types (physical, sexual, psychological, neglectful). This study is the first to document these disparities using nationally representative data, rather than nonprobability samples limited to select cities.

Recommended citation: DeVylder, J., Amos, B., Cosse, J., Semwayo, A., Anglin, D., Link, B., & Fedina, L. (2026). Police Violence Exposure Among Young Adults in a US National Probability Sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 08862605261438552.
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“we need a r/evolution”: Transformational Resistance as a Framework in Advancing ADEI in Social Work Education

Published in Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, 2026

This paper uses counter-narrative autoethnography to explore how social work educators can cultivate ‘transformational resistance’ in the classroom amid current political attacks on ADEI. My section discusses Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ‘Crip Emotional Intelligence,’ and how I understand disabled epistemologies as a pedagogy of collective care and transofrmative possibility.

Recommended citation: Maglalang, D. D., Flores, A. T., Godoy, S. M., Cosse, J., Mabrouk, F. A., La Torre, J. C., & Irsheid, S. B.(2026). "we need a r/evolution" :Transformational Resistance as a Framework in Advancing ADEI in Social Work Education. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, 4(1).
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Psychotic experiences and suicidal behavior: causal clues from interactions with stigma.

Published in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2026

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Recommended citation: DeVylder, J., Patel, A., Cosse, J., Amos, B., & Oh, H. (in press). Psychotic experiences and suicidal behavior: causal clues from interactions with stigma. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Loneliness and desire for thinness explain sex differences in adolescent internalizing problems.

Published in Nature Human Behaviour, 2026

A longitudinal study of 3,171 Tokyo adolescents, co-designed with the Bridging Divides Young Persons Advisory Group, found that by age 16, female participants had roughly twice the prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation as male participants. Loneliness and a reported desire to be thin, measured at age 14, were estimated to account for about a third to nearly half of that gap in effect terms, suggesting these social factors as potential targets for interventions informed by young people.

Recommended citation: Narita, Z.C., Knowles, G., Sawyer, S., Yamasaki, S., Moreno-Agostino, D., DeVylder, J. Niimura, J., Nakajima, N., Yamaguchi, S., Hosozawa, M., Nakanishi, M., Sawai, Y., Nagaoka, D., Sasaki, R., Zhou, R., Yamane, N., Cosse, J., Stanyon, D., Goto, H., Tanaka, R., Uno, A., Usami, S., Ando, S., Furukawa, T.A., Shinozaki, T., Kasai, K., Patel, V., Nishida, A., & Bridging Divides Young Persons Advisory Group. (In press). Loneliness and desire for thinness explain sex differences in adolescent internalizing problems. Nature Human Behaviour.
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teaching

Social Deviance & Taboos

Undergraduate course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work; open to all NYU students across schools, 2024

Instructor. The purpose of this course is to explore and better understand, from a social work perspective, what behaviors, identities, practices, and experiences are categorized as socially deviant and taboo in society. Students utilize a diverse range of theories on deviance to collectively examine how social deviance and taboos are defined, determined, and socially/historically constructed. Emphasis is placed on how deviance has historically been used as a tool to systemically mark certain groups as “other,” denying them access to power, resources, and full social belonging.

Love and Relationships

Undergraduate course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work; open to all NYU Students, 2026

Taught Fall 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Instructor & Course Developer (rebuilt course from inherited 2023 syllabus). This course examines the practice of love and relationships through a critical social work lens, emphasizing how intimacy, care work, and connection are shaped by structural power. Drawing on Black feminist thought, disability justice scholarship, and related critical frameworks, students analyze both dominant and counter-hegemonic narratives of love and relationships while exploring liberatory approaches to belonging. Course discussions and assignments are grounded in social work’s ethical commitments to relational practice, social justice, and the promotion of individual and collective well-being across practice contexts.

Social Justice and Design Strategies for Enhancing Participant Capacity

Research Methods II (MSW), New York University Silver School of Social Work, 2026

Full Course Description: Building on the foundation skills of the first research course, the objective of this course is to apply research concepts and principles to the actual conduct of studies addressing questions relevant to direct practice with individuals, families, and groups. The course prepares students for active roles in practice and program evaluation. An introduction to the use of computers in statistical analysis is included. Course Instructor: Lucy Prout, MCJ.

Advanced Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Populations

MSW Course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work, 2027

Instructor and Course Developer. This course supports students in developing thoughtful, grounded approaches to practice across micro and macro settings with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender expansive, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. With attention to critical intersectional analysis, students will examine the histories of how sexual and gender identities have been constructed, how they are regulated, and how they continue to be lived today – alongside how these realities shape client experiences, therapeutic relationships, and broader systems of care. Drawing from sociopolitical and decolonial frameworks, this course invites students to critically reflect on their own positionalities and to engage in practices attuned to both structural harm and collective strategies of endurance and care. Attention is given to the impacts of systemic violence and marginalization, including minority stress, alongside possibilities for joy and solidarity. Resilience among marginalized communities will additionally be explored as a contested concept, with attention not only to how it can obscure structural violence, but also to what it means to affirm survival in clinical work with care and accountability to the communities we aim to support.