Assistant Professor at University of Washington
About
LaShawnDa Pittman is an assistant professor in the American Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in sociology at Northwestern University. Recently, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Poverty Research at the University of Wisconsin and a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. In 2011, she completed a postdoctoral fellow at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.
In addition to research on grandparent caregiving and intergenerational families, her interests include social inequality; poverty; race, class, and gender; HIV/AIDS; and health disparities.
Current Work:
Dr. Pittman-Gay is currently working on a book manuscript and peer reviewed articles related to black custodial grandmothers.
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