Lisa Dodson
Research Professor
Ph. D., Brandeis University
Professor Dodson’s main research interests include poverty, teen and single-motherhood, low-wage work & family life, and the widening effects of economic disparity in the US. She conducts field-based research and publishes – often with graduate students -- on the experiences and perspectives of people working and raising families in low-income America. In the past she has presented her research findings in US congressional hearings and recently to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, arguing the parents are unable to meet basic family responsibilities when earning unsustainable wages. She is currently completing a book, Justice from Within revealing the shared dilemmas and common moral ground of middle and working class people in the current US economy. Her previous book Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America was published in 1999 and examined the lives of low-income women raising children.
