Erma Jean Lawson, RN, PhD

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Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 311157
Denton, TX 76203
Phone: (940) 369-7473
Fax: (940) 565-4663
elawson@scs.unt.edu

Erma Lawson, RN, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist with an expertise in African American women's health, African American families, and reproductive health. She has been a postdoc fellow at Berkeley university, where she studied with Anselm Strauss. Recently, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, School of Public Health. She is a quantitative and qualitative research, and has spent two years in Africa exploring gestational stress and infant outcomes. She has traveled to Cuba, New Zealand, and Australia exploring the health status of women in those areas. She has published a number of articles. She is first author of Black Men and Divorce, Sage, publications. Her publications include one of the first articles to explore African American women's health from a historical perspective. In 1995, Dr. Lawson was awarded the Congressional Fellowship and will spend one year in Washington, D.C. working with the Honorable Congresswoman, Eddie Bernice Johnson from Texas. Currently, she is an Associate Professor, in Sociology at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. She teaches courses on women's health, race and ethnicity, and research methods. Dr. Lawson's current research interest focuses on cardiovascular health, with a special interest in racial/ethnic minority women who receive heart transplants. She is conducting the first study to investigate qualitative of life as well as spirituality issues among African American women who receive new hearts.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.