Tangela C. Sawyerr

Tangela C. Sawyerr is an Assistant Director of Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Social Work. She has more than twenty years of social work experience in addiction, homelessness, and child protective services. Dr. Sawyerr's scholarly interest explores the multi-dimensional grief experiences of adult siblings. She is also committed to utilizing an intersectional approach to amplify research in underrepresented communities to advance grief equity and social justice within bereavement. 

E. Goldblatt Hyatt & T. Sawyerr (2024): “Liberating Grief”: Applying an Anti-Oppressive Framework to the Field, Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education and Research, 1-20.

Sawyerr, T. C. (2023). Invisibility matters: Adult sibling loss and the complicated grief experience. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 29(3), 32-44.

Sawyerr, T. (2023). African American sibling loss: A sister’s perspective. In R. Turner & S. Stauffer (Eds). Disenfranchised grief: Examining social, cultural, and relational impacts. Routledge.

Dockery-Sawyerr, T. (2022). Policework in a racist context: A qualitative study of retired African American police officers. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 1-21. 

• Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups
• Social Work with Loss across the Life Span
• Diversity and Oppression