Jeanne M. Giovannoni

Jeanne M. Giovannoni (1931–2009) was an author, professor, and associate vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Social Welfare. Her research ( and subsequent book, written with Rosina Bercerra) focused on child abuse and how community members, social workers, and law enforcement respond.

Biography
Giovannoni was born in San Francisco on October 31, 1931. Her undergraduate education was at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, earning a bachelor's of social work in 1953 and her Master of Social Work at the same school in 1955. Her doctorate was in 1966 from Brandeis University.

Before starting to teach at UCLA in 1969, she taught for three years at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She retired from UCLA in 1993.

She died at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica on December 17, 2009, of lung cancer.