CURRICULUM VITAE
RUSSELL K. SCHUTT
DEPARTMENT
OF SOCIOLOGY
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1977-1979 Postdoctoral Fellow
Sociology of Social Control Program
Department of Sociology
1968-1977 University of
Ph.D. - Sociology - 1977
M.A. - Sociology - 1975
B.A. - Sociology - 1972
Honors in Liberal Arts and Sciences
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1992- Professor of Sociology
1995-2000 Chair, Department of Sociology
1987-1993,2000-2007 Graduate Program Director
University of Massachusetts/Boston
1990- Lecturer on Sociology (PT)
Department of Psychiatry
1985-1992 Associate Professor
1979-1985 Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts/Boston
1992-1994 Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
1976-1977 Lecturer in Sociology
1972-1976 Teaching & Research Assistant
Department of Sociology
COURSES TAUGHT
Methods of Research (Grad, Undergrad);
Social Statistics; Complex Organizations;
Computer Applications in Social Analysis;
Sociology of Law; Sociology of Work; Sociology
of Homelessness; Introductory Sociology.
GRANTS, AWARDS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS
2007 Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award.
2005- Associate Member, Cancer Disparities Program,
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
2005-2008 Educating Underserved Communities About Cancer
Clinical Trials (with JudyAnn Bigby, MD and Lidia
UMass
Comprehensive Cancer Partnership Program).
R. Schutt, PI for UMB (and DF/HCC 2007-2008).
National Cancer Institute.
2005- Member, Editorial Board.
2005 The Women’s Health Network: Reviewing the Past,
Planning the Future. Massachusetts Department of
Public Health. Principal Investigator. $170,000.
2004 The Women’s Health Network Evaluation
Project.
Massachusetts
Department of Public Health. Co-
Investigator (with Jacqueline Fawcett). $120,000.
2001-2002 Group Home Social Structure and Consumer
Functioning. UMass
Development Grant.
1998-2000 Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Project for
the Homeless. Lifelines HIV/AIDS Prevention
Project, Mass. Department of Public Health.
GRANTS, AWARDS,
SPECIAL PROGRAMS (continued)
1999 Political Participation After Socioeconomic
Transition in
Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D., Ali Pirzadeh, Ph.D.,
Denisa Popescu. Funded by the Soros Foundation,
the Center for Social Science Research, West
1997-1998 Achieving Valid Survey Measures: A CD-ROM
Training Program. Professional Development
Grant in Instructional Technology for
Academic Development. University of
Massachusetts President’s Office. With
Floyd J. Fowler and Ray Melcher.
1997-1998 Assessing the Impact of Competency and Course
Based Teaching Environments in Criminal
Justice Education. ACE/Kellogg grant,
Gerald Garrett, Sylvia Mignon, William
Holmes,
1995-1997 UMass-Boston/City of
Housing Evaluation Project. Monitor and evaluate
HUD-funded homeless services for Mayor’s
Emergency Shelter Commission.
1991-1992 The Influence of Personality on
Adaptation to Two Types of Residence
Among Formerly Homeless Chronically
Mentally Ill Persons. Biomedical
Research Support Grant. UMass/Boston
1991 Shelter Staff and Deshelterization.
Summer Faculty Research Award. UMB.
1990-1995 Apartments v. Evolving Consumer Households for
the HMI. National Institute of Mental Health.
$3.1 mill. Co-Investigator. (S.M. Goldfinger,
MD,
1988-1989 The Development of Shelters and
Services for the Homeless. Office
of Graduate Studies and Research Grant,
1988 Working With the Homeless: A
Training Module. With G.R. Garrett. University
of
GRANTS, AWARDS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS (cont.)
1987 Working with the Homeless: A Video Based
Training Experience, with G.R. Garrett. Second
Place, Educational Instructional Media, Fourth
Annual
1986-1987 A Media-Based Training Project for Shelters.
Grant, with Gerald R. Garrett.
1985-1986 Outstanding Achievement Award.
College of Arts and Sciences,
1986 Chancellor's Scholars' Conference Fund.
Grant, Conference on Homelessness, with G.R.
Garrett.
1984-1986 Bio-medical Research Support Grants
with Gerald R. Garrett.
1983-1984 Participant, Title III Program
Use of Microcomputers
1983-1984 Fellow, Ford Foundation
1980-1981 Faculty Research Award
Study of employment cases.
1973 Research Board Grant, w/ H.R. Miller
Study of Public Employee Unionism
BOOKS
2007 Bachman, Ronet and Russell K. Schutt.
The Practice of
Research in Criminology and
Criminal Justice, 3rd ed.
(1st edition, 2001; 2nd edition, 2003).
2006 Schutt, Russell K.
Investigating the Social World: The Process and
Practice of Research, 5th ed.
Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications
BOOKS (continued)
2006 Chambliss, Daniel F. and Russell K. Schutt.
Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of
Investigation, 2nd ed. (1st ed., 2003).
2005 Engel, Rafael J. and Russell K. Schutt.
The Practice of Research in Social Work.
2004 Schutt, Russell K.
Investigating the Social World: The Process and
Practice of Research, 4th ed.
Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications
2001 Hartwell, Stephanie W. & Russell K. Schutt(eds).
The Organizational Response to Social Problems:
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy,
Volume 8.
2001 Schutt, Russell K.
Investigating the Social World: The Process and
Practice of Research, 3rd ed.
Pine Forge Press (A Sage Company).
1999 Schutt, Russell K.
Investigating the Social World: The
Process and Practice of Research, 2nd ed.
1996 Schutt, Russell K.
Investigating the Social World: The
Process and Practice of Research. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press (A Sage Company)
1992 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett.
Responding to the Homeless: Policy
and Practice.
1986
Schutt, Russell K.
Organization
in a Changing Environment:
Unionization of Welfare Employees.
ARTICLES, BOOK
CHAPTERS
2007 Schutt, Russell K., Larry J. Seidman,
Brina Caplan, Anna Martsinkiv, and
Stephen M. Goldfinger. “The Role of
Neurocognition and Social Context in Predicting
Community Functioning among Formerly Homeless
Seriously Mentally Ill
Persons.” Schizophrenia
Bulletin, 33:1388-1396.
2007 Fawcett, Jacqueline, Russell K. Schutt,
Gail B. Gall, Elizabeth Riley Cruz, Mary Lou
Woodford. “The Work of Nurse Case Managers in a
Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening
Program.” Professional Case Management,12:93-105.
2007 Schutt, Russell K.
“Secondary Data Analysis.” Pp. 4127-4139 in
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited
by George Ritzer.
2006 Caplan, Brina, Russell K. Schutt, Winston M.
Turner, Stephen M. Goldfinger, and Larry J.
Seidman. “Change in Neurocognition by
Housing Type and Substance Abuse among Formerly
Homeless Seriously Mentally Ill Individuals.”
Schizophrenia Research, 83:77-86.
2005 Schutt, Russell K., Robert E. Rosenheck, Walter
E. Penk, Charles E. Drebing, and Catherine
Leda Seibyl. “The Social Environment of
Transitional Work and Residence Programs:
Influences on Health and Functioning.”
Evaluation and Program Planning, 28(3)291-300.
2005 Schutt, Russell K., Benjamin Weinstein,
Walter E. Penk. “Housing Preferences of Homeless
Veterans With Dual Diagnoses.”
Psychiatric Services, 56:350-352.
2004 Drebing, Charles E., E. Alice Van Ormer, Russell
Schutt, Christopher Krebs, Marylee O. Losardo,
Christopher Boyd, Walter E. Penk, Robert
Rosenheck. “Client Goals for Participating in VHA
Vocational Rehabilitation: Distribution and
Relationship to Outcome.”
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 47:162-172.
2003 Schutt, Russell K.
“Shelterization in Theory and Practice.”
Anthropology of Work Review, 24:4-13.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
2003 Duckworth, Kenneth, John H. Halpern, Russell K.
Schutt, Christopher Gillespie. “A New Illness as
Metaphor: American Newspapers and Schizophrenia.”
Psychiatric Services, 54:1402-1404.
2003 Schutt, Russell K., Bernard Cournoyer, Walter E.
Penk, Charles E. Drebing, E. Alice Van Ormer,
Christopher Krebs, Marylee O. Losardo. “Building
the Future: Psychosocial Rehabilitation With a
Veterans Construction Team.” Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Journal, 27:186-189.
2003 Seidman, LJ, RK Schutt, B Caplan, GS
Tolomiczenko, Turner WM, Goldfinger SM. “The
Effects of Housing Interventions on
Neuropsychological Functions in Homeless
Mentally Ill Individuals.” Psychiatric Services,
54:905-908.
2003 Drebing, Charles E., Robert Rosenheck, Russell
Schutt, Wayne J. Kasprow, Walter Penk. “Patterns
in Referral and Admission to Vocational
Rehabilitation Associated With Co-Existing
Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders.”
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 47:15-23.
2003 Schutt, Russell K., Siamak Movahedi Denisa
Popescu, and Ali Pirzadeh. “Regional Disparities
in
Transitional Society.” The Discourse of
Sociological Practice, 5:19-26.
2002 Penk, Walter, Charles Drebing and Russell Schutt.
“PTSD in the Workplace.” Pp. 215-247 in Handbook
of Mental Health in the Workplace, ed. by Jay C.
Thomas and Michel
Hersen.
2001 Schutt, Russell K.
“Implementing a Mental Health Case Management
System: Technological Change and Organizational
Structure.” Pp. 89-103 in The Organizational
Response to Social Problems:
Research in Social
Problems and Public Policy, Vol.8, edited by S.W.
Hartwell & R.K.Schutt.Oxford:Elsevier Science Ltd
2001 Schutt, Russell K. and Stephanie W. Hartwell.
“The Organizational Response to Social Problems:
Changing Interorganizational and Organization-
Client Relations.” Pp. 1-13 in The Organizational
Response to Social Problems:
Research in Social
Problems and Public Policy, Volume 8, edited by
S.W. Hartwell & R.K. Schutt.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
2001 Penk, Walter, Charles Drebing, Christopher Boyd,
Russell Schutt. “Vocational Rehabilitation in VA
Medical Centers.”Public Service Psychology,12-13.
2000 Schutt, Russell K. and S. M. Goldfinger. “The
Contingent Rationality of Housing Preferences:
Homeless Mentally Ill Persons’ Housing Choices
Before and After
Housing Experience.” Research in
Community and Mental Health, 11:131-156.
1999 Goldfinger, Stephen M., Russell K. Schutt,
G.S Tolomiczenko, L Seidman, W. Penk, W. Turner,
and Brina Caplan. “Housing Placement and
Subsequent Days Homeless Among Formerly
Homeless Adults with Mental Illness.”
Psychiatric Services, 50:674-679.
1998
1997 Schutt, Russell K., Stephen M. Goldfinger,
and Walter E. Penk. “Satisfaction With
Residence and With Life: When Homeless
Mentally Ill Persons are Housed.”
Evaluation and Program Planning, 20:185-194.
1997 Seidman, Larry J., Brina Caplan, George S.
Tolomiczenko, Winston Turner, Walter Penk,
Russell K. Schutt, Stephen M. Goldfinger.
“Neuropsychological Function in Homeless
Mentally Ill Individuals.” Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, 185(1):3-12.
1997 Upshur, Carole C., Paul R. Benson,
E. Clemens, W.H. Fisher,H.S. Leff, R.Schutt.
“Closing State Mental Hospitals in
Inter’l Journal of Law & Psychiatry,20:199-217.
1997 Goldfinger, Stephen M., Russell K. Schutt,
G.S. Tolomiczenko, W. Turner, N. Ware, W.E.
Penk, et al. “Housing Persons Who Are
Homeless and Mentally Ill: Independent Living
or Evolving Consumer Households?” Pp. 29-49
in Mentally Ill and Homeless: Special Programs
for Special Needs, edited by William R.
Breakey and James W. Thompson.
Harwood Academic Publishers.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
1996 Goldfinger, Stephen M., Russell K. Schutt, LJ
Seidman, WM Turner, WE Penk, G Tolomiczenko.
“Self-report and Observer Measures of
Substance Abuse Among Homeless Mentally
Ill Persons, in the Cross Section and Over
Time.” Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, 184(11):667-672.
1996 Schutt, Russell K. and Stephen M.
Goldfinger. “Housing Preferences and
Perceptions of Health and Functioning
Among Homeless Mentally Ill Persons.”
Psychiatric Services, 47(4):381-386.
1996 Goldfinger, Stephen M. and R. K. Schutt.
“Comparison of Clinicians’ Housing
Recommendations and Preferences of
Homeless Mentally Ill Persons.”
Psychiatric Services, 47(4):413-415.
1996 Goldfinger, Stephen M., Russell K. Schutt,
Winston Turner, George Tolomiczenko, and
Mark Abelman. “Assessing Homeless Mentally
Ill Persons for Permanent Housing:
Screening for Safety.” Community Mental
Health Journal, 32(3):275-288.
1996 Dickey, Barbara,
Latimer, Karen Powers, Russell Schutt,
and Stephen Goldfinger. “Use of Mental
Health Services by Formerly Homeless
Adults Residing in Group and Independent
Housing.” Psychiatric Services,
47(February):152-158.
1994 Goldfinger, S.M., B. Dickey, S. Hellman,
M. O’Bryan, W. Penk, R.K. Schutt, L.J.
Seidman, N. Ware et
al. 1994. “The
Project: Promoting Housing Stability and
Consumer Empowerment.” Pp. 43-61 in Making
a Difference: Interim Status Report of the
Homeless Adults with Serious Mental
Illness.
Health Services,
1994 Schutt, Russell K., Tatjana Meschede,
and Jill Rierdan. “Distress, Suicidal
Thoughts, and Social Support Among
Homeless Adults.” Journal of Health and
Social Behavior, 35(June):134-142.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
1993 Schutt, Russell K. and Herbert L. Costner.
"Another Edsel: The Collective
Misperception of the Demand for the
Certification of MA Sociologists."
The American Sociologist, 23(3):57-71.
1992 Schutt, Russell K., Stephen M.
Goldfinger and Walter E. Penk.
"The Structure and Sources of Residential
Preferences Among Seriously Mentally Ill
Homeless Adults." Sociological Practice
Review, 3(3):148-156.
1992 Schutt, Russell K. and SM Goldfinger.
"Mentally Ill Persons in Emergency and
Specialized Shelters: Distress and
Satisfaction."
Policy, 8(Spring/Summer):407-18.
1992 Schutt, Russell K.
"Homeless Persons' Interest in
Basic and Health Services: The Role
of Absolute, Relative, and Repressed
Needs." Journal of Sociology and Social
Welfare, 19(4):221-233.
1992 Schutt, Russell K. and M. L. Fennell.
"Shelter Staff Satisfaction with
Services, the Service Network and
their Jobs: The Influence of
Disposition and Situation." Current
Research on Occupations and Profes-
sions, 7:177-200. JAI Press.
1992 Schutt, Russell K., Suzanne
Gunston and John O'Brien.
"The Impact of AIDS Prevention Efforts on AIDS
Knowledge and Behavior among Sheltered Homeless
Adults." Sociological Practice Review, 3(1):1-7.
1992 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett
"The Homeless Alcoholic: Past and Present."
Pp. 177-86 in Marjorie J. Robertson and
Milton Greenblatt
(eds.). Homelessness: A
National Perspective. NY: Plenum.
1990 Schutt, Russell K.
"The Quantity and Quality of
Homelessness: Research Results and
Policy Implications." Sociological
Practice Review, 1(2):77-87.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
1989 Schutt, Russell K.
"Objectivity versus Outrage"
Society, 26(May/June):14-16.
1989 Garrett, Gerald R. and R.K. Schutt.
"The Homeless in
Description and Analysis."
Pp. 73-89 in Jamshid A. Momeni (ed.)
Homelessness in the
1988 Schutt, Russell K.
“Dynamics of Homelessness.” Pp. 22-38 in
Committee on Health Care for Homeless People,
and Human
Needs.
Academy Press.
1988 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett.
"Social Background, Residential
Experience, and Health Problems of
the Homeless." Psychosocial
Rehabilitation
Journal, 12(October):67-70.
1988 Schutt, Russell K. and W. D. Dannefer.
"Detention Decisions in Juvenile
Cases: JINS, JDs and Gender." Law &
Society Review, 22(3):509-520.
1988 Schutt, Russell K. and G. R. Garrett.
"Homelessness in
Problems, Seeking the Solutions." P. 547 in
Beth B. Hess, Elizabeth W. Markson, and
Peter J. Stein, Sociology, 3rd ed.
1988 Schutt, Russell K.
"Sociological Networking." Footnotes, 16:11.
1987 Schutt, Russell K.
"Shelters as Organizations:
Full-Fledged Programs
or Just a Place to
Stay?" Pp. 5-8 in
Homelessness:
Critical Issues for Policy and
Practice.
1987 Garrett, Gerald R. and R. K. Schutt.
"Social Services for Homeless
Alcoholics:
Assessment and
Response." Alcohol Health and
Research World, 2(Spring):50-53.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
1987 Schutt, Russell K.
"Craft Unions and Minorities:
Determinants of
Change in
Admission Practices." Social
Problems, 34(October):388-402.
1987 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett.
"Homelessness in Three Dimensions:
Professors,
Practitioners,
and Politicians." Footnotes,
15(January):8.
1986 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett.
“Bridging the Gap: Teaching Research and
Community
Service." Improving University
Teaching, 2(July):389-398.
1986 Schutt, Russell K.
"A Computer Survey Project: Rationale,
Procedures, and
Results." Social Science
Microcomputer Review, 4(Spring):85-88.
1986 Schutt, Russell K.
"Microcomputers in Research
Methods." Footnotes,
American
Sociological Association, 14(Feb.):7-8.
1984 Schutt, Russell K., Hubert M.
Blalock and Theodore C. Wagenaar.
"Goals and Means for Research Methods
Courses."
Teaching
Sociology, 11(April):235-258.
1982 Schutt, Russell K.
"Models of Militancy: Support for
Strikes and
Work Actions
Among Public Employees." Industrial
and Labor
Relations Review, 35(April): 406-422.
Reprinted (1985): Marvin J. Levine,(ed.), Labor
Relations in the
Public Sector:
Cases,
2nd ed.,
1982 Dannefer, W. Dale and R. K. Schutt.
"Race and Juvenile Justice Processing
in Court
and Police
Agencies." American Journal of
Sociology, 87(March):1113-1132.
1981 Schutt, R. K. and Seleshi Sisaye.
"The Economic Significance of
Ethnicity:
Unionized Workers
in
Ethnicity,
8(December):341-351.
WORKBOOKS, MANUALS
1997 Schutt, Russell K.
Student Guide and Activities to Accompany
Investigating the Social World. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press (A Sage Company).
1999. 2nd edition with Matthew A. Archibald.
1996 Schutt, Russell K.
Instructor’s Manual to Accompany
Investigating the Social World. Thousand
Oaks,CA: Pine Forge Press (A Sage Company)
1999. 2nd edition with Matthew E. Archibald.
1990 Garrett, Gerald R. and R.K. Schutt
Working with the Homeless: A Video-
Based Training Manual. Third Ed.
1988 Baker, Therese L. and R. K. Schutt.
Workbook to Accompany Baker, Doing
Social Research.
1987 Schutt, Russell K., Theodore C.
[1982] Wagenaar and Kevin P. Mulvey (eds.).
Research Methods Courses: Syllabi,
Assignments, and Projects, 2nd ed.
[1st ed.: Schutt, Orenstein, Wagenaar].
NON-PRINT MEDIA
2003-2004
Schutt,
Russell K. et al. Interactive
Exercises to Accompany
Investigating the
Social World, 4th ed., Making Sense of the
Social World, and The Practice of Research in
Criminology and Criminal
Justice.
2001 Schutt,
Russell K., Nancy B. Mueller, and
Stephanie Yuhas, with
the assistance of
Jennifer B.
Calderwood and Andrew Dzurisin.
Instructor’s
Resource Portfolio to Accompany
Investigating
the Social World, 3rd ed.
1998 Schutt, Russell K., Floyd J. Fowler, and
Ray Melcher.
Training Program.
NON-PRINT MEDIA (continued)
1988 Schutt, Russell K.
A Soft Approach to Research Methods:
Exercises to Accompany Doing Social
Research.
Software. [Republished with Investigating
the Social World, 1996.]
1987 Schutt, Russell K. and G.R. Garrett.
Working with the Homeless:
A Video Based Training Experience.
at
BOOK AND SOFTWARE REVIEWS
2004 “Society and Its Metaphors:
Language, Social
Theory, and
Social Structure,” by José
López.
Contemporary
Sociology, 33:495-498.
2002 “Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry
Fails and How It Can Succeed Again,” by Bent
Flyvbjerg. Field Methods, 14:228-233.
2000
“Social Experimentation”
by Donald T. Campbell
and M. Jean
Russo. Field Methods, 12:164-168.
1989 "Ex-Sample." Social Science Computer
Review, 7(Spring): 124-126.
1987 "Judging Credentials: Nonlawyer
Judges and the Politics of
Professionalism," by Doris Marie
Provine. Criminal Justice Policy
Review, 1(4):456-459.
1987 "Recent Research Methods Texts:
Means for Achieving Course Goals?"
Teaching Sociology, 15(Apr):203-213.
1986
"DOCUMAX/PC." Social Science
Microcomputer Review, 4:544-546.
1986 "THOR" Social Science Microcomputer
Review, 4(Summer):258-261.
1982 Review of Union Organization and
Militancy: Conclusions from a Study
of the United Mine Workers of
Takamiya. American Journal of
Sociology, 88(September):476-478.
INVITED TALKS
2007 Can Group Homes Help to Reduce Chronic
Homelessness Among Persons with Serious
Mental Illness? Center for Homelessness
Prevention Studies,
Health,
February 15.
2006 Evaluation of Case Management in the Women’s
Health Network. NBCCEDP Case Management
Training, Division of Cancer Prevention and
Control, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
2005 Experimental Design in Evaluation Research:
Understanding the Influence of Preferences. 7/12,
School for Community Economic Development,
Southern
2004 Consumer Preferences and Clinician
Recommendations: How Can They Help Us To
House Homeless Persons with Mental Illness?
Research Rounds,
Center at
2000 Group or Independent Living for Homeless
Mentally Ill Persons: An Experimental Evaluation.
March, Grand Rounds, Psychology Service,
Edith Nourse Rogers
1995 “Shelters, Housing & Services.”
Presented at VA 1995 Community Networking
Conference, Responding to the Homeless:
Policy and Practice.
1988 "Homeless Veterans: Who They Are,
What They Need." VA Workshop on
Homelessness,
1988 "A Brief Commentary on 'First Out,
Last In: Homelessness in
by Peter Rossi." Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association,
1987 "The Dynamics of Homelessness."
Commissioned Paper for the
Committee on Health Care for Homeless People,
INVITED TALKS (continued)
1986 "Shelters as Organizations."
Presented at the conference on
Homelessness: Critical Issues
for Policy and Practice. Harvard
and UMass/Boston, March 25-27.
RECENT PRESENTED PAPERS
2007
Community Health Workers and Cancer
Research:
Experience, Knowledge,
Orientation. With JudyAnn
Bigby, Lidia Schapira, Silas
Henlon, Jennifer
Maniates, Jessica
Santicciolli. American Cancer
Society convention,
Bridging the Health Gap.
2007 Three Strikes and They Were Out: The Bases
and
Processes of Housing
Loss Among Persons Diagnosed
With Serious and
Persistent Mental Illness.
Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the
Eastern Sociological
Society,
March 18.
2004 The Social Environment and
Cognitive Functioning:
The Consequences of
Substance Abuse for the
Impact of Housing. With Brina Caplan, Winston M.
Turner, Stephen M.
Goldfinger, Larry J. Seidman.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Sociological Association, San Francisco,
August 14.
2002 The Social Climate of Transitional Work and
Residence Programs: Effects on Health and
Functioning. With Robert E. Rosenheck, Walter
E. Penk, Charles E. Drebing, and Catherine
Leda Seibyl. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Assoc.,
2002 Developing Community: Motivation and Meaning in
an
Persons. With Jillian Doucette, Robin Myers, E.
at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Sociological
Society,
2001 Does the Environment Matter? Specifying Cognitive
Gains from Housing Interventions. With Larry J.
Seidman, Brina Caplan, and Stephen M. Goldfinger.
Paper presented at 2001 Annual Meeting of the Am.
Sociological Assoc.,
RECENT PRESENTED PAPERS (continued)
2001 Institutionalizing HIV/AIDS Prevention Practices
Among Homeless Shelters. With Deborah
Milbauer and Denisa Popescu. Paper presented
at 2001 Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological
Society, March,
2000 Regional Disparities in
Movahedi, Ali Pirzadeh, Denisa Popescu.
Paper presented at Annual Meeting of American
Sociological Assoc., August,
2000 Political Participation After Socioeconomic
Transition in
Pirzadeh, D. Popescu. Presented at 2000 Annual
Meeting of Eastern Soc’gical Society,
1999 Schutt, Russell K. and S. M. Goldfinger.
Housing Preferences of Homeless Mentally Ill
Persons: A Paradox for Mental Health Policy.
Presented at the Annual Meeting, American
Sociological Association,
SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH REPORTS
2005 Case Management in the Women’s Health
Network:
A Comprehensive Evaluation. Report to
the
Department of Public Health. With Jacqueline
Fawcett.
2005 The Women’s Health Network: Reviewing
the Past,
Planning the Future. Project Report. With the
assistance of Elizabeth Riley Cruz.
For the
Department of Public Health.
University of
2004 Homeless Persons’ Residential Preferences and
Needs: A Pilot Survey of Persons with Severe
Mental Illnes in
Generic Shelters. With James Feldman, MD, MPH,
Eileen Reilly, MD, Martha Schinagle, MD.
2001 Building the Future: Organizing Psychosocial
Rehabilitation with a Veterans Construction
Team. With Charles Drebing, Alice Van Ormer,
Christopher Krebs, and Mary Lee Losardo.
SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH REPORTS (continued)
2001 HIV/AIDS Prevention Practices
in
Shelters, 1999. With Denisa Popescu & Deborah
Milbauer.
Education & Harm Reduction for Homeless Men
and Women.
2001 Teaching, Learning, and Information Technology
at UMass Boston: An Exploratory Class Project.
With Demetra Atsaves, Margaret Bartley, et al.
UMass Boston.
1998 Substance Use and Abuse Among UMass Boston
Students. With
Garrett, Stephanie Hartwell, Joseph Bebo,
Matthew O’Neill, Mary Aruda, Pat Duynstee,
Helen Reiskin. Report to the P.R.I.D.E.
Program, UMass Boston Health Service.
1997
Building the Continuum of Care for Homeless
Persons. With
A. Burke. Prepared for the Emergency Shelter
Commission and Public Facilities Department,
City of
1997 The 1995-1996 Transitional Work Study:
City of
and Training for Homeless Persons. With Francine
Byrne, Lorenzo Boyd, Erica Jablonski, Kelly
Kolodny,
Prepared for Carol Fabyan and Beth Grand
L’Heureux, City of
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2006-2007 Co-Chair, Admissions & Financial Aid
Subcommittee, Chancellor’s Strategic Planning
Task Force,
2005-2006 Member, Search Committtee for a New Chair,
Higher Education Program,
2004-2005 Member, Steering Committee (& Chair, Graduate
Subcommittee),
NEASC Accreditation Review of
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (continued)
2002-2003 Member, Search Committee for Liberal Arts Dean
2001-
Member, Faculty Council,
1999-2000 Chair, Search Committee for Dean of the
Liberal Arts Faculty.
1988- Provost's Academic Quality, Assessment, and
Development Committee;Faculty Scholarship Awards;
Committee to Develop Survey Research Practicum;
Provost’s Course Evaluation Committee;
McCormack Institute Director Search Committee;
Faculty Development Grant Review Committee;
Healey Grant Review Committee;
Graduate Studies & Graduate Research Committees.
1984-1988 Chair, Search Committee (1987-1988).
Summer Internship Coordinator (1984-1988).
Department of Sociology
University of Mass./Boston.
1983-1985 Chair, Majors, Honors, and Special
Programs Committee. UMass/Boston.
1981-82 Member, Faculty Senate.
College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Massachusetts/Boston
1981-1993 Graduate Review Committee (1987-
88), Computer Oversight Committee
(1982-88), Institutional Review
Board (1981-84; 1989-1993)
University of Massachusetts/Boston
1975-1976 Dean's Search Committee for a Department Head
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
1998-2000 Secretary, Eastern Sociological Society.
1994-1995 Chair, Thompson Award Committee,
Organizations & Occupations Section,
American Sociological Association.
1994-1997 Member, MA & Soc. Practice Subcommittees,
Graduate Education Committee, ASA.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (continued)
1995-1996 Chair, Graduate Education Committee
1992-1993 Chair, Membership Committee
Eastern Sociological Society.
1989-1990 Chair, MA Certification Program Committee,
American Sociological Association.
1988-1992 Associate Editor, Teaching Sociology
1987-1989 Chair, Credentials Subcommittee
MA Certification Program Committee,
American Sociological Association.
1986-1988 Co-Chair, Computer Committee,
Eastern Sociological Society.
1986
Participant,
Seminars on the Homeless.
1986 Co-Director, conference on "Homelessness:
Critical Issues for Policy & Practice," with
E.Bassuk, N.Kaufman, Harvard & UMass/Boston.
1985- Member, Electronic Sociological Network
Committee, American Sociological Association.
1985 Sociology of Work course materials published
in Teaching the Sociology of Work, Jane Hood
& Paul Booth (eds.).
American Sociological Association
1985 Sociology of Law course materials published
in Syllabi and
Instructional Materials for
Sociology of Law.
1982 Organization of Roundtable on
"Microcomputers in Research Methods"
& presentation. Annual Meeting, Eastern
Sociological Society,
1982 Organization of workshop on Teaching Research
Methods, presentation. Annual Meeting,
American Sociological Assoc., San Francisco.
1981-1982 Co-Chair, Papers Committee,
Eastern Sociological Society,
with G.R. Garrett
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (continued)
1980
Association. Membership Committee
1979- Reviewer: Psychiatric Services; Industrial &
Labor Relations Review; Journal of Health and
Social Behavior; Social Science Quarterly; Social
Problems; American Journal of Sociology; National
Science Foundation, Law & Social Sciences.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association; Eastern
Sociological Society; Law and Society
Association; Society for the Study of Social
Problems.
RECENT CONSULTING
2001-2005 Retention Factors for Homeless People with
Significant Disabilities. Norm Hursh, Sc.D.,
Sciences,
2002-2003
Study of
New program Initiative at Edith Nourse Rogers
Ph.D., P.I. Funded by Veterans Administration.
2001-2003 Study of Consumer-Operated Service Programs.
E.
2000-2001
Study of Veterans Construction
Team. Walter E.
Penk, PhD, Chief, Psychology
Service, Edith
Nourse Rogers
Veterans Administration.
1989-1994, 1999- Life Lines AIDS Prevention Project for the
Homeless. Evaluation project funded by
Department of Public
Health (& formerly,
Centers for Disease Control).
1997-1998 Study of Two Housing Approaches. William Anthony
Health Services.
RECENT CONSULTING
(cont.)
1997-1999 Stigma and Mental Illness. Two studies with
Kenneth Duckworth, MD, funded by National
of newspaper articles; medical student survey.
1997-1999 Homeless Job Seekers. Impact Employment Services.
1995 Planning Committee. Responding to the Homeless:
Policy and Practice. VA Community Networking
Conference.