Associate Professor
University of Mississippi
Misa Kayama, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor of social work at the University of Mississippi. Her research focuses on the sociocultural shaping of children’s experience of stigmatization due to disability and other intersectional issues, such as race and immigration status, in the U.S. and Asian countries through cross-cultural, ethnographic approaches and cultural analysis of policies. Her recent focus is on children’s own voices of stigmatization at school in order to develop child-centered, stigma-sensitive programs of support. The findings have been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and two academic books and one edited book.
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