Assistant Professor`
University of Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Claudette Grinnell-Davis (she/they) is an assistant professor of social work in the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Campus. Her research focuses on the etiology of child maltreatment, cumulative parental risk, Indian child welfare policy and practice, American Indian family empowerment and participatory action research with adults with lived experience in foster care as youths. Prior to coming to the University of Oklahoma, she was an assistant professor of social work in the Grace Abbott School of Social Work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During their time in Omaha, they developed a working relationship with the Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition, which led toward an emerging research agenda in American Indian child welfare and family empowerment. This work has led to Dr. Grinnell-Davis and the Coalition being granted a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to fund the Honoring Indigenous Families Project, which studies the implementation and outcomes of Indian child welfare practice in Nebraska.
While they identify as American Indian by culture, they are still tracking their lineal descent to a recognized tribe. She is trained for research as a social work scholar, a policy analyst, a developmental psychopathologist, and a social identity theorist; their research crosses many disciplinary boundaries in the quest to increase the knowledge base of human flourishing, both individually and at family and community-level systems..
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM