Dr. Jessica Marie Shotwell

Bio

I am a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally from Memphis, I received my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and B.S. in Sociology from Middle Tennessee State University. My theorizing is grounded in my background in abolitionist community organizing and political education. My areas of expertise are race, class, gender, Black feminisms, intersectionality, theory, health, and education. My research areas are: (1) anti-capitalist consciousness-praxis (2) health as a mechanism of difference across racial lines (3) Black girlhood in education. I am published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and public sociology magazines.