Shawna Jo Lee
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Shawna J. Lee is professor and associate dean for faculty affairs at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, and an affiliate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics. She is also currently the director of the Parenting in Context Research Lab and director of the Program Evaluation Group at the UM-SSW. She serves as co-Editor-in-Chief for the academic journal Children and Youth Services Review. Dr. Lee has published extensively on child maltreatment, fathers’ parenting, father-child relationships, parenting stress and family functioning, and parental discipline.
- Joyce Y. Lee, Shawna Jo Lee, Sehun Oh, Amy Xu, Angelise Radney, Christina M. Rodriguez. 2025. Family Stress Processes Underlying COVID‐19-Related Economic Insecurity for Mothers and Fathers and Children's Internalizing Behaviour Problems. Child & Family Social Work 30(3):510-523.
- Kaitlin P. Ward, Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor, Julie Ma, Garrett T. Pace, Shawna Jo Lee, Pamela Davis-Kean. 2025. Interactions of gender inequality and parental discipline predicting child aggression in low- and middle-income countries. Child Development 96(1):7-20.
- J. Bart Klika, Joyce Y. Lee,, Olivia D. Chang, ,Jaclyn Kirsch,, Shawna Jo Lee. 2024. Child Maltreatment During COVID-19: Triangulating Data Across Reporting Sources. Child Maltreatment
- Lee, Joyce Y., Shawna Jo Lee, Xu, Amy, Steinke, Hannah, Weiland, Christina. 2024. Development, Acceptability, and Initial Implementation of an Interactive Text-Messaging Program for Fathers with Low Income. Maternal and Child Health Journal 28:1920-1932.
- Joyce Y. Lee, Shawna Jo Lee, Olivia D. Chang, Analia F. Albuja, Muzi Lin, Brenda L Volling. 2024. Low-income fathers are emotionally resilient: A qualitative exploration of paternal emotions across early parenting. Infant Mental Health Journal 45(6):645-669.
- Joyce Y. Lee, Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor, Shawna Jo Lee, Tawfiq Ammari, Alex Lu, Pamela Davis-Kean. 2020. A Qualitative Analysis of Stay-At-Home Parents’ Spanking Tweets. Journal of Child and Family Studies 29:817-830.
- Lee, Shawna Jo, Gershoff, Elizabeth T, Durrant, Joan E. 2019. Promising intervention strategies to reduce parents' use of physical punishment. Child Abuse & Neglect
- Lee, Shawna Jo, Afifi, Tracie O, Ford, Derek , Gershoff, Elizabeth T, Merrick, Melissa , Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew , Ports, Katie A, MacMillan, Harriet L, Holden, George W, Taylor, Catherine A, Peters Bennett, Robbyn . 2019. Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an adverse childhood experience. Child Abuse & Neglect
- Lee, Shawna Jo, Lee, Joyce Y, Pace, Garrett T, Altschul, Inna . 2019. The Associations of Constructive and Destructive Interparental Conflict to Child Well-Being Among Low-Income Families. Journal of Interpersonal Violence :0886260519835872.
- Lee, Shawna Jo, Albuja, Analia F, Sanchez, Diana T, Lee, Joyce Y, Yadava, Stacy . 2019. The effect of paternal cues in prenatal care settings on men's involvement intentions. PLOS ONE 14(5):e0216454.