Dr. Lynn Weber
Professor

Dr. Lynn Weber is a professor of psychology and women’s studies who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Her initial work in social class, resulting in The American Perception of Class (with Reeve Vanneman, 1987), and her work as co-founder and then director of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis led her ultimately to pioneer in a new field of study–intersectionality.

For over twenty years, Dr. Weber’s research and teaching have explored the ways in which the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality operate in both individual lives and in communities. Her current work focuses on bringing the insights of intersectional scholarship to the problem of persistent inequalities in health and to studying the process of recovery from Hurricane Katrina among communities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and people displaced to Columbia, South Carolina.

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