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Donalee Unal, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Part-Time Assistant Professor
Penn State College of Medicine
NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA, United States

Donalee Ünal, PhD, MPH is a adjunct assistant professor at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Science. Her work focuses on tribal sovereignty and social justice. Currently, she is examining how Native artists view their work as a source of healing from historical trauma, strengthening cultural connectedness, and furthering tribal sovereignty.

She has been invited to presented her research at the annual meeting of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the 17th Health Disparities Conference in New Orleans, the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and at Widener University Graduate Research Symposium.

She has been a research fellow in the department of social work at Widener University and an invited guest lecturer at Widener University, West Chester University, Hunter College, and West Virginia University presenting on Native social welfare policy, Indigenous research methodology, and sovereignty.

Her work on tribal sovereignty and social justice has been published in the journal of Social Work in Public Health. Most recently, her chapter Indigenizing the Social Work Curriculum: Why it Matters and How to Start can be found in the book Indigenization Discourse in Social Work: International Perspectives by Springer.

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