CSOGIE Scholarship Award

2026 CSOGIE Scholarship Award

The Council on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, & Expression (CSOGIE) Scholarship Award honors excellence in scholarship that celebrates the lives of; promotes social justice, equity, and inclusion, and expands understanding of intersectional topics that affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, sexual-expansive, gender-expansive, two-spirit, and all others under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, in social work education and practice. The award is given to research that demonstrates high impact and advances the core values of the social work profession regarding LGBTQIA+ communities.

Shanna K. Kattari, PhD, MEd, CSE
Dr. Shanna K. Kattari, (they/them/theirs) is an associate professor at the School of Social Work, in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department (by courtesy), and is the director of the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research Collective. A white, Jewish, nonbinary, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent (AuDHD), polyamorous, queer fat Femme, their practice and community background is as a board certified sexologist, certified sexuality educator and social justice activist. Kattari’s multi-methodological research focuses on three areas that often overlap: disability and ableism (including neurodivergence, Mad studies and disability justice), sexuality and sexual health (including reproductive justice), and queer and trans affirming practice (in behavioral, physical and sexual health spaces). Their work aims to understand how power, privilege and oppression systematically marginalize, exclude and discriminate against people regarding their identities, while also uplifting the brilliance and resistance demonstrated by these communities in the face of stigma and harm. Recently, Kattari’s work has focused on the health disparities among trans/nonbinary communities, across physical, behavioral and sexual health, using community-based participatory research and arts-based methods. Their work has also included several studies on disability and ableism, particularly regarding the academy and social work education.