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Anne Bryden

Education: B.S., Occupational Therapy, Cleveland State University, 1991 M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 2017 Bio/ Research Interests: Research interests include: disability; human rights; rights to science and technology; medical sociology; and health disparities. Email: anne.bryden@case.edu Current CV

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Casey Albitz

Education B.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University B.A., Psychology, Case Western Reserve University M.A., Sociology, Case Western Reserve University Ph.D., Sociology, Case Western University Bio/Research Interests Sociologist with a demonstrated history of working both in higher education and local government. I study formal eviction in Cleveland, Ohio and am interested in the relative autonomy of...

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Luma AlMasarweh

Education B.S., Public Health with an emphasis in Epidemiology and a minor in Sociology, Brigham Young University M.S., Sociology Brigham Young University Bio/ Research Interests: Research interests include: medical sociology; social determinants of health; health care services; and inequalities and disparities in access to care. Email: luma.almasarweh@case.edu Current CV  

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Sue Hinze, Brian Gran, and doctoral candidate Anne Bryden collaborate on DoD grant

In collaboration with Kim Anderson (Department of Physical Medicine and MetroHealth), the Department of Sociology’s Anne Bryden, Brian Gran and Sue Hinze recently learned that the Department of Defense Spinal Cord Injury Research Program is funding their project entitled, “Perspectives on Recovery and Interventions to Restore Function Across the First Year of Spinal Cord Injury.” The $803,000 award supports research that compares needs of Veterans who have experienced spinal cord injury, as well as needs of those Veterans’ caregivers, with civilians and their caretakers, during the first year of injury as they attempt to reintegrate into the community.

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Jessica Kelley and Jielu Lin win ASA SALC Outstanding Publication Award

Jessica Kelley and CWRU Sociology alumna Jielu Lin have been awarded the “Outstanding Publication Award” for their paper, “From Noise To Signal:  The Age and Social Patterning of Intra-Individual Variability in Late -Life Health” by the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association.  The paper appeared in the Journal of Gerontology Social Sciences (https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/72/1/168/2632037).   Kelley and Lin (currently assistant professor at the University of Northern Arizona)  received the award in August, at the Annual Meeting of the ASA in New York.

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