Lianna Hart
B.A. in Psychology with Distinction and Women’s and Gender Studies with Distinction, minor in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude, Sonoma State University, May 2007
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
liannahart@ucla.edu
Subfield
Qualitative Methods; Health Care and Illness; Mental Health; Gender; Families; Dis/abilities
Grants and Awards
UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2009
UCLA Sociology Department Fellowship, 2008-2013
Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award for “Therapeutic Mothering: Maternal Practices as an Autism Intervention,” Pacific Sociological Association, 2008
Undergraduate Student Paper Award (3rd prize) for “Maternal Stances toward Autism: Fixing, Accepting, Valuing and Renouncing,” Alpha Kappa Delta, 2008
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, California Sociological Association, 2007
C. Wright Mills Award for Sociological Imagination, Sonoma State University, Department of Sociology, 2007
Student Travel Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2007
Elizabeth Bock Scholarship, Sonoma State University, 2006-2007
Conference Presentations
“Tandem Stigma: Mothers’ and Children’s Interconnected Identities,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Session on Acquiring Perspectives, Boston, MA, August 2008
“Maternal Stances toward Autism: Fixing, Accepting, Valuing, and Renouncing,” paper presented at the American Sociological Association, Honors Program Roundtable, Boston, MA, August 2008
“Therapeutic Mothering: Maternal Practices as an Autism Intervention,” paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Undergraduate Roundtable on Families, Portland, OR, April 2008
“Social Isolation and Connection through Autism,” paper presented at the California Sociological Association Conference, Session on Undergraduate Research, Berkeley, CA, November 2007
“Meanings of Mothering Children with Autism,” paper presented at the 34th Annual Western Departments of Anthropology and Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University, Session on Gender, Santa Clara, CA, April 2007
“Experiences of Mothers Who Have Children with Autism,” paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Regular Session on Sociology of Mental Health and Mental Disorder, Oakland, CA, March 2007
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