Jennifer E. James, MSW, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, UCSF; Community Engagement Liaison, Breast Oncology Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Education
Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA, 05/2008, Political Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, MSW, 05/2010, Social Work
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, MS, 08/2010, Social Policy
University of California, San Francisco, PhD, 06/2016, Sociology
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 - 2021
UCSF Population Health and Health Equity Scholar - 2021
Greenwall Faculty Scholar, Greenwall Foundation - 2021
UCSF Society of Hellman Fellows Award - 2021
Changemaker in Family Planning Award, Society of Family Planning - 2022
UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center Emerging Health Equity Scholar 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).