Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master's Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D., LICSW is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master’s Program in Social Work, Social Policy and Social Administration at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She has extensive teaching, administrative, and clinical practice experience. Dr. Moore has worked in higher education for over 25 years as an administrator and faculty member. In addition to her work in higher education, she has sustained a small private psychotherapy practice and consultation business where she has done therapeutic work with individuals, families, and couples, and provided organizations reviews of equity and inclusion endeavors, consultative supervision, and facilitated high tension meetings between staff and senior management of non-profit organizations and educational institutions.
Dr. Moore’s scholarship is broad and diverse. Ranging from work with Gullah-Geechee Families on St. Helena Island, SC to her current scholarship and instruction which is focused on addressing the work of Fanon’s ideas of phobogenesis to understand the construction of the fear of Black bodies through a psychoanalytic lens, and the labor of Black women in communities, institutions, and families.
Dr. Moore earned her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, and an A.B. in Political Science from Davidson College.