Associate Professor
Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization, 2022-26
Biography
Ph.D. 2010, Northwestern University
Research
Selected Research
- Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival (University of California Press)
- Alson, W. Robinson, L. Pittman, and K. Doll. (February 25, 2021). “Measures of Systemic Racism into Population Studies of Reproductive Health in the United States: A Narrative Review.” Health Equity. 5 (1): 1-10. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/heq.2020.0081
- Pittman, L. and D. Oakley. (2018). “It Was Love In All the Buildings They Tore Down”: How Caregiving Grandmothers Create and Experience a Sense of Community in Chicago Public Housing. City & Community. 17(2): 461-484, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cico.12280.
- Pittman, LaShawnDa. "Grandparents as Caregivers for Grandchildren with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities", in Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Courses Taught
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Autumn 2023
Summer 2023
Autumn 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
- AFRAM 260 A: African American Family
- AFRAM 405 A: Advanced African American Studies in Social Science
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Additional Courses
Introduction to African American Studies
African American Families
Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Public Policy
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
American Sociological Association, Association of Black Sociologists, Gerontological Society of America, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Work and Family Researchers Network
Related News
Related News
- Freedom Choices: How Black Mothers Living in Jim Crow Protected Their Children from Anti-Black Racism and Prepared Them for Success (November 1, 2024)
- Population Health Initiative Tier 1 Pilot Research Grant Awarded to Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman (October 31, 2024)
- Prof. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Awarded a 2024 ACLS Digitial Justice Seed Grant (May 22, 2024)
- UN Commission on the Status of Women (March 11, 2024)
- Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Winter Newsletter (February 29, 2024)
- LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Shared in Chicago Tribune Article (January 16, 2024)
- LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Reviewed on Fostering Families Today (December 29, 2023)
- LaShawnDa Pittman Interviewed by USA Today about Black Grandparents Raising their Grandkids (December 28, 2023)
- LaShawnDa Pittman Appointed The Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship In Western Civilization (January 24, 2023)
- A Message from the Chair (February 9, 2022)
- Profs. Alexes Harris and LaShawnDa Pittman Host the Black Faculty Collective Welcome Reception (October 18, 2021)
- Black Voices: What the UW has gotten right (November 2, 2020)
- Opinion: Black Life Disrupted (September 14, 2020)
- UW Abolition Institute - September 2020 (September 2, 2020)
- Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman delivers the UW's 2020 Black Graduation keynote address (June 22, 2020)
- 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium: Culture, Race and Equity, Immigration (May 20, 2020)