In the Department of Sociology of Case Western Reserve University, students are able to pursue graduate education in an environment in which both faculty and fellow students share interest in the sociology of aging and the life course, and in medical sociology. Our department provides unique opportunities for early professional socialization and meaningful hands-on involvement in research projects. Students are viewed as junior colleagues, collaborating with faculty members and conducting independent research. Please feel free to ask questions you may have about any of us, our research areas, our program, or CWRU.
Scott Adams
scott.a.adams@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, John Carroll University
Research Interests
Successful aging; technology use among older adults; end of life issues; social security and policy
Employment
Research Assistant for Dr. Eva Kahana at the Elderly Care Research Center
Personal interests/achievements
Play music, karaoke, going to concerts, hiking, IHOP
Dawn Aliberti
dma10@case.edu
Education
A.A.B., Applied Business, Lakeland Community College
B.A and M.A., Sociology, Cleveland State University
Research Interests
Medical sociology (including sociology of disability); aging; sociology of the family; human rights and criminology
Employment
I am currently enjoying being an adjunct faculty member at several local colleges and universities.
Personal interests/achievements
Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award, 2006 (Tri-C Eastern Campus)
Publications
Hinze, Susan W. and Aliberti, Dawn (2005) "The Feminization of Poverty: A Global Perspective." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer.
Gran, Brian and Aliberti, Dawn (2003) "The office of the children's ombudsperson: children's rights and social-policy innovation" Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2003, Pages 89-106.
Tanetta Andersson
tea@case.edu
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, MA, 2005, Case Western Reserve University
B.A., Sociology and Psychology, minor in Women's Studies, Case Western Reserve University, 1999
Research Interests
Social stratification; race, gender, class, and ethnic inequalities; women's health (e.g., menopause & use of equine estrogens in hormone replacement therapy); third world & transnational feminims; sociology of the body; mental health, depression, suicide bereavement; qualitative methodology & visual sociology; sociology of sport; animals and society; service learning & applied sociology
Employment
Graduate Student Instructor
Dissertation Title
"Disenfranchised grief"?: An exploratory study of suicide loss in friendship dyads
Personal interests/achievements
Horses, horses, horses!
Recipient of the 2002 United States Eventing Association (USEA) Worth the Trust Adult Amateur Scholarship (national equestrian scholarship)
Recipient of the 1999 CWRU Student Leadership Award
Patricia B. Kilpatrick Award for Service to Others & CWRU Student Community Service Award
Publications
Settersten, R. A., Jr., & Andersson, T. E. (2002). Moving and still: Neighborhood effects, human development, and the life course. In R. A. Settersten, Jr. & T. Owens (Eds.), Advances in life-course research: New frontiers in socialization (pp. 197-227). London: Elsevier Science, Ltd.
Jacquelyn Arendt
jaa36@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, Cleveland State University, 2005
Research Interests
Medical sociology as related to gender roles and issues.
Employment
Research assistant to Gary Deimling at the cancer center.
Personal interests/achievements
Jigsaw puzzles, chai tea and Law and Order:Criminal Intent
Sherri Brown
sherri.brown@case.edu
Education
M.S., Family and Consumer Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
B.S., Home Economics, Western Illinois University
Research Interests
My research interests are comprised of examining adulthood and aging among men, elderly caregiving, and stress and coping using a sociocultural contextual perspective.
Employment
I am currently working as research assistant for Department Chair, Dr. Dale Dannefer, and Dr. Gary Deimling at the Cancer Survivors Research Project.
Personal interests/achievements
My personal interests include spending time with family and friends, movies, reading books and watching documentaries on African American issues, music, playing Scrabble, bead jewelry making (currently, at a basic level), powerwalking, and traveling.
Rachel Bryant
rachel.bryant@case.edu
Education
B.S., Sociology, University of North Alabama
Research Interests
Medical Sociology; comparative sociology; sociology of human rights; social policy
Employment
I have worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Brian Gran for 2 years, primarily focusing on children’s rights in the United States through the U.S. Children’s Rights Index. Currently, we are compiling a dataset of international corporal punishment bans. We are also working on a paper paralleling states’ laws on corporal punishment of minors and domestic violence of adults. I have been his Teaching Assistant for the Social Policy and Children’s Rights course as well.
I am also currently working as a Research Assistant to Professor Sue Hinze on physician burnout, and have been a Teaching Assistant for her Work and Family in the U.S. and Abroad course. I have also worked with the Health and Retirement Study data with Professor David Warner and have collected neighborhood assessment data for the HANDLS study with Professor Jessica Kelley-Moore.
Personal Interests
My personal interests include various forms of stress reduction such as yoga, Zencast, learning French, and teaching myself to play the acoustic guitar. I also enjoy cooking, probably because it results in eating.
Current CV
Antje Daub
antje.daub@case.edu
Education
J.D., (German equivalent), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
LL.M., International Law, Case Western Reserve University
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Social policy and the life course: (cumulative advantage/disadvantage; gender); gender studies; social theory
Employment
Research Assistant (previous)
Professors Gunhild Hagestad, Eva Kahana, Jacqueline Lipton, Dale Dannefer, Brian Gran (RA/TA) & Richard Settersten
Research Assistant (current)
Professors Sandra Barnes & Dale Dannefer (RA/TA)
Personal interests/achievements
Books, movies, travel
Lynn Gannon Falletta
lmg14@case.edu
Education
B.A., Psychology, The University of Akron
M.P.A.., The University of Akron
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Health and mental health across the life course; social contributions to inequalities in health and mental health; cumulative advantage/disadvantage; children’s rights; child welfare
Employment
Current: Research Grants Administrator, Akron Children's Hospital
Personal interests/achievements
Music (especially U2 and live shows), travel, sunshine, any beach with a large body of water
Current CV
Karie Feldman
karie.feldman@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
Current CV
Michael Flatt
maf34@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, Cleveland State University
M.A., Sociology, Cleveland State University
Research Interests
Gender; sexuality; inequality in health care and education; issues of race and social class
Employment
R.A. for Brian Gran, working on the Children's Right Index
R.A. for Sue Hinze, work includes a qualitative look at married physicians and the gaming phenomena among college students.
Also recently employed by:
Cuyahoga Community College: Adjunct Sociology Faculty Case Western Bioethics Dept: R.A. under P.I., Laura Siminoff, on a study on tissue donation.
Personal interests/achievements
Personal interests include working with the NE Ohio chapter of GLSEN-- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which works to ensure safe schools for everyone by promoting awareness and offering training on dealing with discrimination relating to sexuality and gender indentity issues in Ohio schools.
Crowning achievement would be the fact that I have seen Madonna live in concert over 30 times in 3 countries and 2 continents. Avid Madonna fan (some say fanatic) for over 20 years.
Publications
In progess
Emily Fleisher
emily.fleisher@case.edu
Education
B.A., Political Science, The University of Iowa
M.S.S.A, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Medical sociology; child welfare; children's rights
Employment
Research assistant to Professor Brian Gran
Personal interests/achievements
Travel, cooking, spending time with my friends and family
Greg Graham
gxg27@cwru.edu
Education
B.A., Communication, Cleveland State University
M.A, Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Research methodology as applied to nursing research and the social sciences; Gerontology; healthcare disparities; developing a scale of quality of care in a long-term care setting; quality of fit between a resident and the constellation of long-term care options; public policy and the aged
Employment
Currently a Lecturer in Research Methodologies in the School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University
Personal interests/achievements
Travel & cooking
Publications
Siminoff, L., Graham, G., Gordon, N. (January 2005) Breast Cancer and Patient Care: Demographic Differences. Oral presentation at American PsychoOncology Society annual meeting.
Siminoff, L., Graham, G., Gordon, N. (2006) Cancer Communication Patterns and the Influence of Patient Characteristics: Disparities in Information-giving and Affective Behaviors. Patient Education and Counseling. Patient Educ Couns, 62(3):355-60.
Zhang, X., Hans, M., Graham, G., Kircher, H.L., and Redline, S. (2007) Correlations Between Cephalometric and Facial Photographic Measurements of Craniofacial Form. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Vol. 131, No.1:67-71.
Siminoff, L., Mercer M.B., Graham G., Burant, C. (2007) The Reasons Families Donate Organs for Transplantation: Implications for Policy and Practice; The Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care , 62:4.
Faculty Webpage
http://fpb.case.edu/Faculty/Graham.shtm
Current CV
Rachel Hammel
rjh31@case.edu
Education
M.P.A., University of Akron, 2005
B.A., Sociology, University of Akron, 1998
Research Interests
Medical sociology; life course
Employment
Research assistant to Eva Kahana at the Elderly Care Research Center
Judith (Jude) N. Harris
jnh8@case.edu
Education
B.A, Sociology with concentrations also in Biology and Chemistry, Northern Michigan
Research Interests
I am very interested in how lay people learn about medicine and their bodies, and hope to dissert on how mothers communicate information to their daughter about menarche, and furthermore, how this information helps to shape an adolescent girls self-concept throughout the lifecourse.
Employment
After working with Dr. Kahana for two years at the Elderly Care
Research Center, I am excited to start new research positions with
Gary Deimling and Dale Dannefer, where I will be studying cancer
survivors and institutional care, respectively.
Personal interests/achievements
When I am not busy with school, I enjoy relaxing with my
boyfriend Brendan and my cats, and traveling to obscure locations
whenever possible, often to visit friends and family. I love to
crochet and sew, and I also recently became very interested in health and fitness. Other than that, I have an unhealthy interest in Pop Culture and can spend hours discussing music (especially The
Beatles!), Fashion, and reality tv (from a sociological perspective of
course!).
Andrew J. Hund
axh69@case.edu
Education
M.A. Sociology, Humboldt State University, 2000
B.A. Sociology, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998
B.A. History, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998
Research Interests
Social epidemiology; Alaskan Native groups; circumpolar peoples health issues/disparity; social-history of illness; health/medical factors related to toxic plants and industrial chemicals; disasters; astronauts health; and space medicine.
Personal interests/achievements
Photography, fishing, and Alaska.
George Kypriotakis
gxk56@case.edu
Education
B.A., Human Development, Hellenic College/Holy Cross
M.A., Applied Sociology, U. Mass
Research Interests
Aging, and Cancer; Life-course and social integration; Randomized interventions; Prevention and evaluation research; Longitudinal, multi-level and latent variable modeling; Analysis across systems.
Employment
Research Biostatistician, Medicine, CWRU
Educational Evaluator, GRECC, VA Medical Center
Publications
George Kypriotakis. (1999).Time Interval and Offense Escalation: Statistical Analysis Using Survival Data. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology in Toronto, Canada.
George Kipriotakis. (2001). Criminal Histories and Recidivism Rates for Different Offence Transitions and for Two Types of Offenders. The Discourse of Sociological Practice. Vol. 4, no. 1.
Michelle Puchowicz, George Kypriotakis, Bruce H. Cohen, Sumit Parikh, Douglas S. Kerr and Charles L. Hoppel. (2006). Age-related changes in human skeletal muscle mitochondrial energy metabolism. Mitochondrion. Vol 6, Issue 5.
Deimling, G. T., Kypriotakis, G., Bowman, K. F., Arendt, J. A. (2007). Trajectories in Functioning and psychosocial outcomes among older, adult, long-term cancer survivors. TheGerontologist, 47 (Special Issue 1), p. 605.
Bowman, K. B., Arendt, J. A., Deimling, G. T, Kypriotakis, G, Rose, J. H. (2007) Health care utilization of older, longer cancer survivors. The Gerontologist, 47 (Special Issue 1), p. 605.
George Kypriotakis, Edwin Vazquez, Edward Lesnefsky, Charles Hoppel. Oxidative Phosphorylation Provides a Valuable Tool for Identifying the Aging Mitochondrial Phenotype. Presentation at the 12th Congress of the International Association of Biochemical Gerontology (2007).
G. Deimling, Bowman, K.B., Kypriotakis, G .Cancer and Aging: The Quality of Life of Long-term Survivors. Presented at the Society for Behavioral Medicine, March 2007.
Deimling, G.T., Arendt, J.A., Bowman, K.B., Kypriotakis, G. (2008) The Relative Impact ofCancer-related and Age-related actors on the Psycho-social Quality of Life of Older Adult, Long-term Survivors. Psycho-Oncology Vol 17.
Deimling, G. T., Arendt, J. A., Kypriotakis, G., Bowman, K. F. (in review). Predictors of health and functioning of older adult, long-term cancer survivors. Journal of Aging and Health.
Michelle Puchowicz, George Kypriotakis, Bruce H. Cohen, Sumit Parikh, Douglas S. Kerr and Charles L. Hoppel. (2006). Developmental changes in human skeletal muscle mitochondria. (Working paper).
Marcie Lambrix
mal31@cas.edu
Education
M.A. Sociology, Cleveland State University, 2002
B.A. Sociology, Cleveland State University, 2000
Research Interest
Medical Sociology; anti-aging therapies; medicine and consumerism; end of life decision making; research methods
Employment
2006-Present
Anti-Aging Project Coordinator,
Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
2002-2006
University Memory and Aging Center, Caregiving Research Program Manager, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals
Recent Publications
Fishman, J.R., Binstock, R.H. and Lambrix, M.A. (In press). Anti-Aging Science: The Emergence, Maitenance, and Enhancement of a Discipline. Journal of Aging Studies.
Smyth, K.A., Rose, J.H., McClendon, M.J., & Lambrix, M. (In press). The relationship of caregivers' demographic characteristics and ratings of social support importance to their expectations of computer-mediated support groups. Journal of Applied Gerontology.
Recent Presentations
Fishman, J.R. and Lambrix, M.A. (2008, October 24). Anti-Aging Medicine in the Clinic: The Ethics of a New Medical Specialty. Presentation at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Cleveland, OH.
Lambrix, M.A., Flatt, M.A, and Fishman, J.R. (2008, September 2). Extending the Human Lifespan: Achievements and Challenges of Genetic Research on Aging. Round table discussion at the 103rd annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA.
Lambrix, M.A., Flatt, M.A. and Fishman J.R. (2008, August 15). The General Public Has No Idea What's Coming...Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Fishman, J. R., Binstock, R.H., and Lambrix, M.A. (2007, November 17). The Objectives of Anti-Aging Science: Implications for Legitimacy, Funding, and the Future. Presentation for the symposium, Anti-Aging Science and Medicine: The Making of a Field and Its Professionals, at the 60th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Fishman, J.R. and Lambrix, M.A. (2007, October 20). How Anti-Aging Researchers Make Epistemological Claims: Legitimizing a Scientific Discipline. Presentation at the 9th annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
Lambrix, M. (2006, August). Mild Cognitive Impairment- Who Really Benefits? American Sociological Association, August, 2006
Melinda Laroco
mll38@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, The University of Memphis, 2005
M.A., Applied Sociology, Old Dominion University, 2007
Research Interests
Medical Sociology; environmental factors and health disparities; life course; race/class/gender issues for poor and working class families
Employment
I am currently working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Jessica Kelley-Moore. The project I am helping with is entitled, Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS). The study focuses on the need to understand health disparities in one’s overall longevity by looking at differences in rates and risks for pathological conditions associated with aging. The study hopes to decipher the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, and health outcomes, and it has definitely led me into research that I want to pursue. I also enjoy studying certain areas of Gerontology (i.e. Caregiving for Alzheimer’s patients).
Personal interests/achievements
I love to travel, spend time with family and friends, read great books, experience new things, and most importantly, spend significant amounts of time laughing.
The greatest achievements I can think of thus far: being accepted into Case J, earning a Masters Degree from ODU, being awarded Ms. University of Memphis in college, watching The Sound of Music thousands of times, and most importantly, maintaining pleasant relationships with God, family, and friends.
Carolyn Lechner
cbl2@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology/Anthropology, Allegheny College, 1991
MSSA, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
MNO, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
Research Interests
Improving quality of care/quality of life in long term care; dementia; end-of-life
Employment
Am currently employed as bereavement coordinator for Hospice of the Western Reserve
Personal interests/achievements
I continue to maintain pride in my ability to play consistent double- bogey golf
Publications
In the fall of 2006, I will have a chapter entitled "Internal versus External Evaluation" published in EVALUATION IN DEMENTIA CARE.
Education
M.S., Applied Sociology, Clemson University, 2008
B.A., Advertising, Fudan University, China, 2006
Research Interests
Physical and Mental Health, Aging and the Life Course, Research Methods
Employment
Research Assistant for Professors Jessica Kelly-Moore and Eva Kahana
Publications
Lin, Jielu, Martie P. Thompson and Nadine J. Kaslow. 2009." The Mediating Role of Social Support in the Community Environment--Psychological Distress Link Among Low-Income African American Women." Journal of Community Psychology 37(4):459-470.
Personal Webpage: http://filer.case.edu/jxl510/index.html
Casey Schroeder Miklowski
cms51@case.edu
Education
B.A. in Sociology, Maryville University-St. Louis, 2002
M.A. in Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2005
Research Interests
Health care access and quality for young adults who have recently aged out of the foster care system
Employment
Data coordinator for Research Division of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and part-time lecturer at Cleveland State University
Personal interests/achievements
Women's rights, volunteer work at women's clinics, reading, and walking my dogs
Recent Publications
Dannefer, D., and Miklowski, C. (2006). Developments in the life course. In (J.A. Vincent, C. Phillipson, and M. Downs, Eds.).The Futures of Old Age, pp. 32-42. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Schroeder, C., & Gran, B. (Feb 2005).Abortion, motherhood, and mental health: Medicalizing reproduction in the United States and Britain. (Book Review). Journal of Marriage and Family 67 (1): 263-265.
Robert Peterson
rbp19@case.edu
Education
B.A. Sociology, Morehouse College, Atlanta Georgia, 2005M.A. Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, 2008
Research Interests
Robert’s scholarly foci includes: medical sociology; quantitative and qualitative methods; HIV/AIDS; race, class, and gender inequalities; the concept of masculinities and men’s health; and social and health policy.
Dissertation Title
“The Implications of HIV/AIDS Framing on Testing and Disclosure Decision-Making among Macro and Micro Level Stakeholders” endeavors to describe HIV testing decisions, reasons for testing, condom usage, testing experiences, and some of the demographic, attitudinal and behavioral indicators that help explain them.
Employment
As one of four Sociology students in the nation, Robert is a recipient and currently funded by the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program. The MFP is funded primarily through a T-32 training grant provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), with recent co-funding by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This prestigious fellowship is renewable for up to three years and provides stipend and travel allowances. You can view more about the MFP 35 cohort by clicking: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/julyaugust08/mfp.html.
Personal Interests/Achievements
In addition to receiving the 2007 Ruth Barber Moon Award for Academic Excellence and Promise at Case Western Reserve University, Robert’s article on HIV disclosure and the stress paradigm titled: “When Secrets Hurt: HIV Disclosure and the Stress Paradigm” is currently part of the edited volume Let’s Talk About Black Sexualities: Sex and Power in America, under review at Rutgers University Press.
In the meantime, I admit it, I am a news junkie...for entertainment purposes only i.e., CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, FOX News, ABC, NY Times, Washington Post etc. In addition, I enjoy socializing with my fraternity brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. In the little spare time I do have, I take pleasure in southern style cooking or community involvement typically dealing with HIV/AIDS or mentoring in the local educational system. Last but not least, I truly benefit from spending time with my 9-month old German Shepherd, Stacey.
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Paulette Sage
pas11@case.edu
Education
M.A. Sociology, Cleveland State University
B.S. Education, University of Akron
Certificate in Paralegal Studies, Lakeland Community College
Research Interests
Medical sociology; aging and the life course
Research Experience
Paulette is a Senior Research Assistant and field interviewer for the Cancer Survivors Research Project. Prior to starting graduate work, Paulette worked in market research for over 20 years, including some time as a private contractor in marketing research with several health care providers, such as the Cleveland Clinic, Humility of Mary, and Sisters of St. Francis Health System.
Personal interests/achievements
Golfing, canoeing, cross country and downhill skiing, and spending ime with family and friends.
Michael Schaefer
michael.schaefer@unitedbiosource.com
Education
M.A. Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 1998
B.A. Sociology, Tufts University, 1996
Research Interests
Quality improvement in health care; physician practice behavior; physician satisfaction; health care systems; health and social policy
Research Experience
I work at Medstat as an Analyst in our Chronic Care and Disability research group. I defended my dissertation prospectus "Examining the Quality of the Physician-Organization Relationship: Physician Autonomy and Satisfaction in the Managed Care Era." I am now collecting data for the dissertation.
Personal interests/achievements
Cleveland native; Enjoys fly fishing and traveling.
Current CV
Christine Schneider
cms80@case.edu
Education
B.A., Sociology, Baldwin-Wallace College
Research Interests
The commodification/medicalization of the male body; gender differences in mental health; social inequalities within the medical profession
Employment
Research Assistant for various faculty members at Case Western
Research Assistant for the VA Medical Center in Wade Park on the “Joint Replacement Utilization Disparity: The Role Of Communication” study
Personal interests/achievements
I would like to study the Hispanic, in conjunction with African American and white populations to study factors regarding patient-physician relationships that perpetuate social inequalities. In my free time I like to golf and fish the nearby rivers
Recent Publications
The NSA and privacy, in addition to the USPS and privacy encyclopedia entries
Current CV
Robin Shura
rsp19@case.edu
Education
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2006
B.A., Sociology/Russian, minor in Religious Studies, Kent State University, 2001
Research InterestsI’m interested in inequalities in aging and health; how social systems (e.g. schools & colleges, insurance provision, long-term care organizations, global markets) create and sustain inequalities; and solutions developed to improve the welfare of vulnerable groups (e.g. culture change initiatives in long-term care settings; establishment of offices of children’s ombudspersons as regional advocates for children’s rights). I’m also interested in medicalization, including the expanse in popularity of genetic understandings of health and illness, and how such understandings influence personal struggles to attribute meaning to experiences.
EmploymentCurrently Project Coordinator under Professor Dannefer’s leadership on a nursing home research project, “Learning from Those Who Know,” which employs a multi-method approach--including ethnography, semi-structured interviews, participatory action research and structured observational techniques--to understand life, work and the Eden Initiative of culture change from staff and residents’ perspectives within a nursing home and assisted living facility.
Personal interests/achievements
I enjoy time with family and friends, hiking, baking, traveling, Scrabble, and any movie with Will Ferrell.
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Rebecca Siders
ras71@case.edu
Education
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2008
B.S., Human Development and Family Studies, Minor in Gerontology, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
Research Interest
I'm interested in aging and the life course; institutional care, specifically, long-term care retirement communities (including Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, and Alzheimer's Special Care Units); globalization, particularly how its processes affect global health (e.g. transnational migration of global care workers) and its role in redefining what care is and how it is delivered among vulnerable populations; I'm also interested in medical sociology, especially health inequality and the social institutions and social policies that create and sustain inequalities over the life course.
Employment
Research Assistant/Assistant Project Coordinator
"Learning from Those Who Know," Nursing Home Project (Mentor: Dale Dannefer)
Personal Trainer/Senior Fitness Trainer
Alliance Rehab, Erie, PA
Personal interests/achievements
I enjoy traveling to visit family and friends, camping, hiking, and cycling. I have a goal to try and learn a new sport and/or sport activity every year. This past year I began cycling, yoga, and cardio kickboxing. My new goal for this upcoming year is rock climbing and to do at least ONE cycling charity race. I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan and an annual subscriber/supporter of the Pittsburgh Ballet. Music, sports/exercise, dance, and art are all ways that I enjoy my "free" time and forms of relaxation.
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Mary Ellen (Ellie) Stone
mes181@case.edu
Education
B.A., Gerontology, Miami University, 2006
M.GS., Masters of Gerontological Studies, Miami University, 2008
Research Interest
life course perspective, health disparities, mental health, intergenerational programs/relationships, stigma related to physical disabilities, and public policy (specifically involving the older populations and welfare).
Employment
Research Assistant: Dr. Eva Kahana (2008)
Research Assistant: Dr. Dale Dannefer (2008)
Graduate Assistant: Bill Cifferi and Matt Nelson (2007-2008)
Graduate Assistant: Dr. Jean Lynch (2007-2008)
Graduate Assistant: Dr. Bob Applebaum (2006-2007)
Graduate Assistant: Dr. Christopher Wellin (2006-2007)
Personal interests/achievements
Past President of Sigma Phi Omega. I am interested in animal socialization, primarily in canines. I am also interested in learning more about biology and psychology.
Josh Terchek
jjt7@case.edu
Joshua Terchek is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University with focuses in research methods and medical sociology. He is currently working on his dissertation regarding the lived experiences of adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. Joshua's current research interests include the social construction of mental disorders, the effects of social inequality on health, and the use of other tobacco products young people. He has worked on several NIH and privately funded studies investigating successful aging, alcohol consumption in HCV patients, and adolescent risk behaviors. Joshua lives in Cleveland with his wife and dog.
Noah Webster
njw5@case.edu
Education
2001 – present, Doctoral Program in Sociology, Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland, Ohio.
M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2004
Specializations in Medical Sociology and Research Methodology
B.A., Sociology, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York-Summa Cum Laude, 2000
Research Interests
Medical sociology; sociology of Aging; health services research; racial/ethnic disparities in health
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