Lisa Landram

Field Director, Department of Social Work; Assistant Professor, Social Work lnlandram@marybaldwin.edu

Lisa Landram (she/her) is the field director and a professor in the Department of Social Work. Before teaching at MBU, she was an adjunct professor at Bridgewater College and a public safety reporter at the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She also has experience teaching at Eastern Mennonite University. Before entering academia, Lisa had 18 years of experience working in the child welfare system. Lisa has published research on emotional labor, humor, and stress among child welfare workers. Her latest book, Exploring Humor in Child Welfare Casework: Laugh to Get Through It or Cry Forever, explores how gallows humor is used among child welfare caseworkers and what the use of humor reveals about how employees experience stress and manage their emotions. Lisa graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor’s in Social Work and from Seton Hill University with a Master’s in Business with a concentration in entrepreneurship. Her Ph.D. is in Philosophy, in Administration and Leadership in the departments of Sociology and Economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.