Lisa Kane Low Receives Excellence in Education Award

Women’s Studies is pleased to announce that Lisa Kane Low (Nursing and Women’s Studies) has received a LSA Excellence in Education Award. This award is in recognition of the special contributions that she has made to the Women’s Studies curriculum in gender and health, including helping to stabilize the undergraduate sequence of courses in health, and spearheading our efforts to create a gender and health minor. And this is not to mention the countless students whom she has advised who are interested in feminist health careers over the years. We congratulate, and thank, Lisa Kane Low for her efforts on behalf of the Women’s Studies Department.

Lisa Kane Low received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, her MS degree in midwifery from the University of Illinois in Chicago, post-masters certificate in teaching from University of Pennsylvania, and finally her doctoral degree in Nursing and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.

Her research area and publications focus on women’s and adolescents experiences of childbirth, including specific birth care practices, the role of doulas (trained providers of support to women and families during childbirth and postpartum), strategies for pain relief in labor, as well as cultural understandings of the significance of the birth experience. She also has an ongoing collaborative project in Honduras to study maternity care transitions in Honduras. She holds joint appointments in Women’s Studies, the Department of OB-GYN and the School of Nursing. Her courses include Perspectives in Women’s Health, Women’s Reproductive Health, and a co-taught course with Laurie Morgan in Sociology on Gender and the Health Care Professions, all at the undergraduate level.