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Joanna Norton
Degrees:
- California State University, Fullerton, BA Afro-Ethnic Studies and Sociology, 2004
Awards:
Dean's Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside, 2004-2005
Research Areas:
Cross-racial relationships, Gender, Social Psychology, and Medical Sociology
Biography:
Throughout her adolescence, Joanna found herself informally analyzing how and when "race" factored into her own and others' membership in different social groups and settings. This intense desire to understand how "race" operates in interpersonal interactions led her to pursue her current project, an ethnographic study of cross-racial, as well as cross-gender, interactions and relationships in a multi-ethnic, middle-class, suburban community in California. Through this work, she seeks to understand the process by which individuals cross racial boundaries, gain group membership, and negotiate the use of "race" in their everyday lives. In addition to her ethnographic work, she finds herself pursuing issues within medical sociology, most notably the stigma associated with illness or disability as well as the political and social issues surrounding the domestic and international fight against HIV/AIDS.
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