Larry M. Gant

Professor Emeritus of Social Work, School of Social Work and Professor Emeritus of Art and Design, Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design

Larry M. Gant’s work focused on neighborhood-level change efforts in the Detroit and surrounding metropolitan areas. The co-operative work incorporated strategies and tactics inspired by collaborations with research colleagues sharing historical, social and political lessons learned from medieval postwar and postindustrial cities including Berlin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Krakow, and Warsaw. Particular practice interests included the continued reinvention and recreation of legacy spaces within these cities, lessons learned from the EU's experience of mass migrations between 2015 to date, community resident survival and growth in resisting and transforming structured gentrification initiatives, and implications of continuing debate regarding current and future representations of conflict memorials, and their legacies and histories for Detroit’s historical landscape.

Gant’s neighborhood-based prevention and promotion related work and research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and numerous private foundations.

Research Interests

Program evaluation, social action, community-based health programs, mezzo practice and social planning; public health social work, international social work, arts-based community development, health disparities emerging from syndemic-structural interactions, e.g. HIV/AIDS, poverty, violence-related PTSD, and impoverished care access.

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

  • [email protected]

  • (734) 763-5990

  • 2620A SSWB
    University of Michigan
    School of Social Work
    1080 S. University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Education

  • 1986 PhD Social Work and Social Psychology
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 1985 MA Psychology
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 1981 MSW Social Work
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 1979 AB Psychology
    University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

News

Activities

Publications

Gant, L. & Gutierrez, L. (2023). Social Planning. In D. Bailey & T. Mizrahi. Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work. Oxford University Press.
Reed, B. G., Jiwatram-Negón, T., Gonzalez Benson, O, & Gant, L. M. (2021). Enacting critical intersectionality in research: A challenge for social work. Social Work Research, 2021, svab015.
Oshita, Y., Kamo, K., & Gant, L. (2021). A narrative approach for a client with irritable bowel syndrome. Human Systems, 1(2-3), 139-149.
Jiwatram-Negron, T., Gonzalez-Benson, O., Reed, B. G., & Gant, L. M. (Eds.). (2020). Special Issue: Applying and Theorizing Intersectionality in Social Work Research. Social Work Research, 45(3), 151-224.
Gutierrez, L. M. & Gant, L. M. (2019). Community practice in social work: Reflections on its first century and directions for the future. Social Service Review, 92(4), 617-646.
Gutierrez, L., Gant, L. M., & Brady, S. (2018). Using arts and culture for community development in the USA. In G. Craig et al. (Eds.), Community Organizing Against Racism: Race, Ethnicity and Community Development pp. 257-276. Chicago, IL: Policy Press.
Graham, C. & Gant, L. M. (2018). Marginalized choice: Self-ascribed illness and its impact on marginalized black men in treatment. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 6(2), 43-63.
Allen-Meares, P. G., Shanks, T. R., Gant, L. M., Hollingsworth, L., & Miller, P. L. (2017). A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in Under-Served Neighborhoods. Oxford University Press.
Gutierrez, L., Brady, S., & Gant, L. (2017). Using arts and culture for community development in the US. In G. Craig (Ed.), Community Development, 'Race' and Ethnicity. Policy Press: Bristol, UK.
Gant, L. M. (2016). Evaluation of group work. Handbook of Social Work with Groups. New York: Guilford Press.

Honors and Awards

Year Description
2018 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching - Gilbert Whitaker Fund
2011 Faculty Associate, Center for Global Health, University of Michigan
2009 Inaugural Distinguished Diversity Scholarship and Engagement Award, National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), University of Michigan.
2006 Nominee for the National 2006 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, University of Michigan
2006 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, University of Michigan
2004 Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning Outstanding Faculty Member Award, University of Michigan
2002 Computerworld Honors Program for contributions in Information Technology (EZLink Program), University of Michigan Laureate

Presentations

Year Description
2019 Gant, L. M. (2019, January). Comparing Bayesian and non-Bayesian analytic strategies for understanding intersectionality and coping in different contexts in a sample of young Middle Eastern/Muslims. Enacting Critical Intersectionality in Research: Concepts, Methods, and Implications for Practice. At the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. San Francisco, CA.
2019 Tighe, L. & Gant, L. M. (2019, January). Academic Undermatch: Investigating Substantial Undermatch in a Nationally-Representative Sample. 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. San Francisco, CA.
2019 Gant, L. M. (2019, March). In Conversation: The Evidence of Things Unseen, Sam Gilliam and Al Loving Then and Now. A. Alfred Taubman Gallery/University of Michigan Museum of Modern Art. Ann Arbor, MI.
2018 Reed, B. G., Gant, L. M., Perone, A., & Alves da Silva, O. (2018, January). Navigating intersectionalities: Implications for social justice. 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Washington, DC.
2018 Gutierrez, L. & Gant, L. M. (2018, January). Social Service Review Symposium: Whither American Social Work in its Second Century? 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Washington, DC.

Courses

Past Courses

Title Instructor Term Course Section Meeting Start Meeting End
Social Work Capstone - Micro Gant, Larry M. Winter 2024 803 06:00 pm 08:00 pm View Course
Social Media & Social Change Gant, Larry M. Winter 2024 001 05:00 pm 08:00 pm View Course
Social Work Capstone - Micro Gant, Larry M. Spring / Summer 2023 002 01:00 pm 04:00 pm View Course
Social Work Capstone - Macro Gant, Larry M. Winter 2023 001 06:00 pm 09:00 pm View Course
Skills and Strategy for Community Change (Urban Planning) Gant, Larry M. Fall 2022 002 02:00 pm 05:00 pm View Course
Social Work Capstone - Micro Gant, Larry M. Spring / Summer 2022 003 06:00 pm 09:00 pm View Course
Social Work Capstone - Macro Gant, Larry M. Winter 2022 001 06:00 pm 09:00 pm View Course
Skills and Strategy for Community Change (Urban Planning) Gant, Larry M. Winter 2022 002 01:00 pm 04:00 pm View Course
Participatory Facilitation Gant, Larry M. Spring / Summer 2021 001 09:00 am 05:00 pm View Course
Social Work Capstone - Macro Gant, Larry M. Spring / Summer 2021 002 01:00 pm 04:00 pm View Course