School of Social Work News

Assistant Professor Shanna Kattari discusses accessibility and inclusion with the Cleveland Jewish News.

The University of Michigan LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity recently published a scholar story showcasing Assistant Professor Shanna Kattari. Her scholarship focuses on three main areas:

• disability, ableism and microaggressions around disability;
• sexuality and gender;
• healthcare access, culturally responsive healthcare and sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Kattari enjoys using mixed methods, PhotoVoice, digital storytelling, arts-based methodologies and phenomenology from the qualitative perspective to depict her research.

Assistant Professor Shanna Kattari shares important research on healthcare discrimination experienced by transgender and non-binary people with The Conversation. Kattari says approximately one-fifth of transgender and non-binary individuals have been denied equal treatment when trying to access doctors or hospitals.

Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari presented “Sexy Spoonies and Crip Sex: Intersections of Sexuality and Disability" at the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists Summer Institute. The theme of the institute this year was Decentering the Norm: Social Justice Transformations in Sex Therapy, Counseling and Education.

Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari presented “Exploring the Intersections of Sexuality & Disability” at the MENSA Annual Conference.

Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari accepted a courtesy joint appointment in the department of Women's Studies in the College of Literature, Sciences and Arts.  

Postdoctoral Fellow Shanna Kattari received a Sponsored Project Award from the Michigan Institute For Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). The project, titled ''Michigan Trans Health Research Advisory Board," will allow members of the transgender and non-binary community to offer their own input on how research with and about this community should be conducted.