Katrina Bell McDonald

phone: (410) 516-7624   email: mcdon@jhu.edu

An associate professor of sociology, McDonald joined the Hopkins faculty in 1994. Her research has explored such topics as maternal activism among middle-class black women, potential barriers to women-centered kin support, and, most recently, contemporary black women's ideas about black womanhood and sisterhood, as reported in Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women (2006). McDonald has two forthcoming publications: "Downward Residential Mobility in Cultural Context: The Case of Disadvantaged Black Mothers," and "Visibility/Invisibility Blues: The Paradox of Racial/Ethnic Inclusion." She holds a BA from Mills College, an MA in Communications from Stanford University, and a PhD from the University of California, Davis.

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