Carolette Norwood

• Ph.D.: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE, 2004 (Sociology (Demography and International Development))
• MA: Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, La, 1999 (Liberal Arts (and African American Studies))
• BA: Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, La, 1997 (Sociology)
• BA: Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, La, 1997 (French)

• Health Disparities, Urbanization, Jim Crow Black communities (segregation)
• Reproductive and Sexual health/rights (HIV/AIDS)
• Africana/Black Feminist Theory and Intersectionality
• Population Control Policy
• Interracial fertility in the US
• Women and Microcredit in Sub-Saharan Africa

Grant: #7193sc / R25HD045810 Investigators:Norwood, Carolette 09-01-2012 -07-31-2014 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Navigating Gender, Race, Place and Space in Urban Neighborhoods Role:PI $25,000.00 Active Level:Federal

Investigators:Norwood, Carolette 2015 University of Cincinnati Third Century Faculty Research Materials Grant A Spatial Analysis of HIV/AIDS in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area 1990-2010. Role:PI $1500 Completed Type:Grant Level:University

2007 Taft Research Center Direct Research Cost Grant (PI) Norwood, Carolette, Women's status and HIV/AIDS risk prevention strategies: A mixed-method evaluation of the effects of Microcredit Participation in Yaoundé, Cameroon $1000 Completed Type:Grant Level:University

Faculty Research Support Grant (University of Cincinnati) (PI) Norwood, Carolette, Women's Status and HIV/AIDS Risk Prevention Strategies: A Mixed-Method Evaluation of the Effects of Microcredit Participation in Yaoundé, Cameroon Role:PI $6500 Level:University

08-20-2014 -05-20-2015 (PI), Norwood, Carolette, Navigating Race, Sex, and Sexuality in Spatial Context of High HIV Prevalence, Charles Phelps Taft Research Faculty Release Fellowship. 100% salary. 08-2014 to 12-2014. Status: Complete. Completed Type:Fellowship Level:University

(PI), Norwood, Carolette. Jim Crow Geography: Mapping the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Cincinnati's Urban Spaces. Charles Phelps Taft Research Faculty Center Fellowship. 100% salary. 08-2017 to 5-2018. Active Type:Fellowship 

Investigators:Carolette Norwood BAD DATE -BAD DATE The Cincinnati Project (University of Cincinnati) Navigating Gender, Race, Place and Space in Urban Neighborhoods Role:PI 2,500.00 Completed Type:Grant 

Grant: #OPEN Investigators:Bessett, Danielle; Chang, Lenisa; Jacquez, Farrah; Norwood, Carolette 04-01-2018 -03-31-2021 Foundation OPEN: The Ohio Policy Evaluation Network Role:Collaborator $458,515.00 Active Level:Private Non-Profit

PUBLICATIONS  

Norwood, C. “New Directions in Black Feminist Sociology: The Politic of Space at the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality.” 2021 In Zakiya Luna and Whitney Pirtle (eds) Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis (Routledge Press). 

Norwood, C.  “Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice: A Black Feminist Critique of the “Protecting Black Life.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(3). 

Norris, A., Payal Chakraborty1, Kaiting Lang, Robert Hood1, Sarah Hayford, Lisa Keder, Danielle Bessett, Molly Broscoe, Carolette Norwood, Michelle McGowan “The Abortion Access in Ohio’s Changing Legislative Context.” American Journal of Public Health, 110(8):1228-1234. 

Jones HJ., Norwood CR, Bankston K, & Bakas, T. 2019. “Developing a Framework for a Stress Reduction Wellness Intervention Targeted to Midlife Black Women.” Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 35(6): 483-490. 

Jones HJ, Norwood CR, Bankston K. 2019. “Leveraging Community Engagement to Develop Culturally Tailored Stress Management Interventions in Midlife Black Women.”  Journal Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57 (3): 32-38. 

Norwood, C. 2018. “Mapping Intersections of Violence on Black Women’s Sexual Health within the Jim Crow Geographies of Cincinnati Neighborhoods.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 39 (2): 97-135.  

Norwood, C. 2018. “Decolonizing My Hair, Unshackling My Curls: An Autoethnography of What Makes My Natural Hair Journey a Black Feminist Statement.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(1): 69-84.  

Norwood, C. 2017. “Why Microcredit Borrowing Projects Are – At Best- A Limited Response to Poverty and Women’s Inequality. Scholar Strategy Network,” https://scholars.org/brief/why-microcredit-borrowing-projects-are-–-best-–-limited-response-poverty-and-womens-inequality. 

Norwood, C. and Zhang, Y. 2015. “Condom Attitudes and Use among African American College Women Students.” Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, 2(1): 83-99.  

Awad, G., Norwood, C., Taylor, D., Martinez, M., McClain, S., Jones, B., Holman, A., Chapman-Hilliard, C.  2015. “Body Image Concerns Among African American College Women.” Journal of Black Psychology, 41(6), 540-564. 

Norwood, C. 2014. "Where the women at? A Sociological Discussion of Haggai from a Feminist Perspective.” In Stacy Davis’ Haggai and Malachi with Liturgical Press. 

Norwood, C. 2014. “Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment in Rural Ghana.” Journal International and Development Studies, (4), 128-58. 

Norwood, C. 2013. “Perspectives in Africana Feminism.” Sociology Compass, 7(3), 225-236. 

Norwood, C. 2011. “Factors that influence HIV testing among non-marginalized African American women.”  American Journal of Health Studies, 26(4): 208-216. 

Norwood, C. 2011. “Women, Microcredit and Family Planning Practices: A Case Study from Rural Ghana.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 46(2): 169-183. 

Norwood, C. 2009. “Rethinking the Integration of Women in Population Development Initiatives.”  Journal of Development in Practice, 19 (7): 906-911. 

Norwood, C. 2005. “Macro Promises of Microcredit- A Case of a local eSusu in Rural Ghana.” Journal of International Women’s Studies, 7(1): 1-7. 

Reproductive Justice in Cincinnati

Black Women and Economic Mobility in Cincinnati

Spatial Clustering of HIV/AIDS, Black IMR and Maternal Death Prevalence in Cincinnati Metropolitan Area and Population Characteristics Associated with Case Concentrations

Monograph: Jim Crow Geography: Mapping the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality in Cincinnati's urban spaces

Unapologetically Speaking: Unpacking Black Feminism, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, March 11, 2021 

7th Annual Cincinnati Project Symposium, University of Cincinnati, “Socially-Just Community Partnered Research,” March 5, 2021 

Sociology of Black Health Care, University of Cincinnati, “In Pursuant of Health Justice: Jim Crow Health Infrastructure in Cincinnati”, February 26, 2021 

The Minority Health Disparities Initiative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Politic of Spatial Confinement: Jim Crow Geographies, Sexual and Reproductive Health Disparities, and Housing Insecurity from the Progressive Era to the 21st Century,” October 2020 

Colloque “Feminismes Noir” (Colloquium in Black Feminisms) Campus Condorcet à Aubervilliers Paris, France, March 3-5, 2020.  

Peaslee Community Center, Urban Residency Teaching Program, the American City Since 1940: Class, Race, Gender, Culture, Space, invited to lead lecture on Patrisse Khan-Cullor’s When They Call You A Terrorist, A Black Lives Matter Memoir, September 26, 2019. 

Harvard University, Interdisciplinary Approaches for Female Success in Academia, April 20-21, 2018. 

The Cincinnati Project, University of Cincinnati, “Jim Crow Geography: Cincinnati Urban Reservation and the Ordinary Lives of Black Women.” February 2016. 

Urban Health Colloquium Series, University of Cincinnati, Department of Sociology, TAFT center, “Structural, Spatial and Interpersonal Violence and Black Women’s Sexual Health in High HIV Prevalent Neighborhoods in Cincinnati.” May 2014. 

Invited Plenary Speaker on Health Disparities session title “Womb to Womb: The Persisting Influence of Health Disparities Across the Lifecourse.” National Council of Family Research, November 2012.  

Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Cincinnati TAFT Research Center, “Condom Use and HIV Risk Among African American Women College Students.” May 2012. 

University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, “Public Health and Microfinance.” March 2011. 

Tulane University School of Medical, “Healthcare Disparities.” April 2009. 

 “Strategies in Research Methods.” Tulane University School of Medical, September 2008. 

University of Cincinnati Sociology Colloquium, “Women's status and HIV/AIDS risk prevention strategies: A mixed-method evaluation of the effects of Microcredit Participation in Yaoundé, Cameroon.”  October 2007. 

Saint Mary’s College, “Microcredit in Africa.” April 2005. 

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, “Unapologetically Speaking: Unpacking Black Feminism”  Thursday, March 11th, 2021.  

The Cincinnati Project 7th Annual Symposium, “The Art and Science of Socially Just Community Partnered Research” Friday, March 5, 2021.  

“Institutional Racism in Healthcare Panel,” Cincinnati Start Up Week,  October 30, 2020, Virtual Meeting (Zoom). 

“Addressing Sexual Health for National Public Health Week,” with panelist Bob Kirkcaldy, Tavon Hall, Eric Washington and Jason Blackard, April 3, 2019, Department of Public Health, University of Cincinnati, Kowaleski Hall Room 141. 

“Doing Community Health Research” for the UC Global Med Community Health Speaker Series (other speakers included Dr. Chris Lewis and Roseanne Hountz), Friday October 19, 2018 Annie Laws Conference Room #407. 

 “Sexual Assault On the Margins” with panelist Amy Schlag, Patrice Delean, Amina Darish and Dalenna Garcia-Tayeb, April 6, 2017, African American Cultural Resource Center, University of Cincinnati, Harambe Room. 

“Old South” with panelist Brandy Turnbow, Christina Brown, moderated by Amy Lind. October 8, 2015, University of Cincinnati, Annie Laws Conference Room #407.  

“Tavis Smiley’s The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto” Taft Symposium, Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, April 2013. 

 “Women of Color Faculty Round Table.” College of Arts and Science, University of Cincinnati, March 2013. 

 “Globalization and its Future.” Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, February 2012. 

“Women's Status, HIV Risk Reduction Strategies and Microcredit Participation” (for Women’s History Month), Saint Mary’s College, March 2005. 

 “Feminist Methodologies in Research.” McGill University, May 2003. 

Norwood, Carolette (PI), African American Women and Economic Mobility, Commissioned Qualitative Research Study, The Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, February 2020. Amount: $30K. 

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME Provost Award) ($20,000): Funding period 2018-19. Project Title: Jim Crow Geography: Mapping the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Cincinnati Urban Space.  

Reproductive Justice in Urban Cincinnati ($236,000) anonymous donor: Funding period 2018-2020: Project Title: Community-Based Participatory Research: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Cincinnati. 

The Cincinnati Project, University of Cincinnati, ($2,500, Awarded). Funding Period: 2016- present. Project title: Navigating Gender, Race, Place and Space in Urban Neighborhoods 

Third Century Faculty Research Materials Grant ($1,500, Awarded), Funding Period: April 2015. Project title: A Spatial Analysis of HIV/AIDS in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area 1990-2010. 

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Health Disparities in Minority Communities Collaborative Program. 6 Week Stipend $36K for 3 Summers and Research Grant for Pilot Study $25K. Funding Period 2012-2014. Project title: Navigating Gender, Race Place and Space in Urban Neighborhoods. 

Taft Research Center, Direct Research Cost Grant, University of Cincinnati, ($1000.00, Awarded). Funding Period 2007. Project Title:  Women's Status and HIV/AIDS Risk prevention strategies: A mixed-method evaluation of the effects of Microcredit Participation in Yaoundé, Cameroon (PI: Carolette Norwood, PhD). 

Faculty Research Support Grant, University of Cincinnati ($6500.00, Awarded).  Funding Period 2006. Project Title: Women's Status and HIV/AIDS Risk Prevention Strategies: A Mixed-Method Evaluation of the Effects of Microcredit Participation in Yaoundé, Cameroon (PI: Carolette Norwood, PhD). 

Summer Research Grant from Vice President and Faculty of Dean’s office. Saint Mary’s College, ($5000.00, Awarded)Funding Period 2004-2005. (PI: Carolette Norwood, PhD). 

Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership Co-Sponsorship Grant, Saint Mary’s College ($900.00, Awarded). Funding Period 2005. Project title: Women, HIV and Microcredit in Africa (PI: Carolette Norwood, PhD).