Jennifer E. James, MSW, MS, PhD

Education

Professional Experience

• 2009-2010
  Research Coordinator, Joan Karnell Cancer Center - Transitions in Care Study
• 2011-2013
  Co-Principal Investigator (Student Project), UCSF - Oncologist Preferences for End-of-Life Conversations Study
• 2012-2013
  Research Assistant/Study Coordinator, UCSF Cancer Center - Spiritual AIM Study
• 2015-2016
  Research Assistant/Study Coordinator, UCSF School of Nursing - Dean’s Diversity Initiative
• 2014-2016
  Co-Principal Investigator (Dissertation Project), UCSF - Black Women with Advanced Cancer and the Challenge of Biomedicine: A Black Feminist Methodological Exploration of the Lived Experience of Terminal Illness
• 2017-2019
  Project Director and Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCSF Institute for Health & Aging

Honors & Awards

• 2006
  Yale University President's Public Service Fellowship
• 2008
  Yale University Morse College Fellows Award
• 2010-2012
  UCSF National Institute for General Medical Sciences Fellowship
• 2012
  AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award ($1,800)
• 2012-2013
  UCSF Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
• 2013-2014
  UCSF Graduate Dean's Health Science Fellowship
• 2013-2014
  Esther Ngan-Ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship ($15,000)
• 2014
  UCSF School of Pharmacy, Dean’s Recognition for Excellence in Teaching
• 2014
  UCSF Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence Educational,
• Research & Leadership Development in Gerontological Nursing Award ($1,000)
• 2014-2015
  University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship
• 2014-2015
  Olesen Dissertation Scholarship ($2,000)
• 2015
  Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Scholarship ($2,500)
• 2015-2016
  UCSF School of Nursing Alumni Association Scholarship ($6,000)
• 2016
  UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Finalist
• 2018
  International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Dissertation Award

Selected Publications

• James, J.E. (2020) "Collective Dialogue and the Ethics of Caring: A Black Feminist Methodology." In Z. Luna & W. Pirtle (Eds.), Black Feminist Sociology. New York: Routledge.
• James, J. (2018). Reinforcing Loss and Rendering Invisible: Adoptee Experience and the Structural Failings of Biomedicine. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 8(2), 151-156. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• James, J.E. (2016) "Black Women with Advanced Cancer and the Challenge of Biomedicine: A Black Feminist Methodological Exploration of the Lived Experience of Terminal Illness." PhD dissertation. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
• Kestenbaum, A., James, J.E., Borovska, S., Shields, M., Hocker, W., Rabow, M. and Dunn, L.B. (2015) "'Taking Your Place at the Table': an autoethnograpic study of chaplains' participation on an interdisciplinary research team." BMC Palliative Care, 14(1).