Institute of Gerontology


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Denise Lewis

Assistant Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
dlewis@fcs.uga.edu

112A Dawson Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3622
706.542.0254 (voice)
(fax)



Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Gerontology, University of Kentucky 2005
  • M.A., Medical Anthropology, University of Kentucky 2000
  • B.A., Anthropology, University of South Alabama 1998


Research Interests

Family exchanges, intergenerational relations (especially family caregiving), culture and aging, and immigrant and refugee health. I strongly believe that research must be relevant to the lives of the research participants. It must benefit them in some way, whether through improved policies, education, or, as in the case of a group of Cambodian refugee families with whom I work, making others aware of who they are and why they are in the United States.

Selected Publications

2006. John van Willigen and Denise Clark Lewis, The Cultural Context of Aging, H. Yoon and J. Hendricks (Eds.), Handbook on Asian Aging, Amityville NY: Baywood.

2005. Nancy Schoenberg and Denise C. Lewis, Ageism in Cross-Cultural Perspective, The Concise Encyclopedia of Ageism.

2001. Denise C. Lewis, From Cambodia to the United States: The Disassembly, Reconstruction, and Redefinition of Khmer Identity, Southern Anthropologist, Vol. 28, No. 1, Pg. 28-49.