LaShawnDa Pittman (She/her)

Associate Professor

Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization, 2022-26

LaShawnDa Pittman

Contact Information

lpittman@uw.edu

Padelford Hall B-517

Office Hours

On Sabbatical SP2025

Fields of Interest

Carework Critical Theory Health Disparities Public Policy Public Scholarship Race and Ethnicity Research Methods Social Inequality Sociology Urban Studies

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

AFRAM 405 A: Advanced African American Studies in Social Science

Autumn 2024

AFRAM 360 A: Black Digital Studies

Autumn 2023

AFRAM 360 A: Black Digital Studies

Summer 2023

AFRAM 437 A: Blacks in American Law

Autumn 2022

AFRAM 360 A: Black Digital Studies

Summer 2022

AES 380 A: Race, Ethnicity, and United States Public Policy

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Additional Courses

Introduction to African American Studies

African American Families

Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Public Policy

Affiliations

Home Department

American Ethnic Studies

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

Cambia Health Foundation Grant Awarded to Catholic Community Services of Western Washington (April 3, 2025)
Professor Pittman's Articles in Generations Journal (February 5, 2025)
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)

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