Lisa Dodson
Lisa Dodson teaches and conducts field research on daily life and survival strategies in low-income America. Her central focus is the everyday knowledge and social critique that comes from people who are working poor and caring for family in a time of expanding sociopolitical and economic inequality in the US. Current areas of research include the creative care strategies that mothers devise while working in service & care labor markets, discussed in forthcoming paper Wage Poor Mothers and Moral Economy and on methodological issues explored in a new project, Researching Inequality. Dodson conducted extensive research during the years before and after welfare reform resulting in the book, Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America (1999).
