Lawlor recognized with 2025 Ruth Zemke Lectureship in Occupational Science
July 10, 2025

She becomes eighth USC-affiliated recipient of honorary lecture.

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Professor Mary Lawlor

Associate Chair of Research and Professor Mary Lawlor has been named the 2025 recipient of the Ruth Zemke Lectureship in Occupational Science awarded by the Society for the Study of Occupation:USA. She will deliver the honorary lecture at the society’s annual research conference in November in Galveston, Texas.

The lectureship, which serves as a forum for visionary, theoretical and critical analyses of occupational science, is named in honor of Professor Emeritus Ruth Zemke.

Lawlor’s scholarship is distinguished by its commitment to examining the meanings of illness and disability in family and community life; the social and narrative nature of therapeutic encounters; and the sociocultural factors shaping health care, particularly among chronically underserved populations.

She will be the eighth USC-affiliated scholar recognized with the Zemke Lectureship since its inception in 2002.

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