BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE
Elizabeth DePoy, Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work
University of Maine
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy & Education,May 1988
M.S.W. University of Pennsylvania, Social Work, May 1977
B.S. State University of New York at Buffalo, May 1972
RECENT HONORS & AWARDS
Senior Scholar Award, Society for Disability Studies, 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Public Health Association, Disability Section, October, 2008
Faculty Fellowship, Society for Peace in the Middle East, Summer, 2008
University of Maine, Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award, May 2007.
Outstanding Achievement Award, Association of University Centers on Disability, November 2006.
Allan Meyers Award for Scholarship in Disability, American Public Health Association, September 2005
Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar, Grant awarded to Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt, March, 2003
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
July 2008-present: Senior Research Fellow. Ono Academic College. Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions. 104 Zahal St., Kiryat Ono 55000 Israel
September 2001-present: Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Education, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, University of Maine, Orono, ME
CURRENT SELECTED FUNDRAISING (Grants and Contracts)
Tobacco Access Portal Initiative II, submitted to the American Legacy Foundation, August, 2008 (funded, $100,000)
Tobacco Access Portal Initiative, submitted to the American Legacy Foundation, April, 2007 (funded, $100,000)
Drug Free Communities, collaboration with Aroostook County submitted to SAMHSA, April, 2007 (funded, $150,000)
SELECTED RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
DePoy, E. & Gitlin, L. (in press) Introduction to research, 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
DePoy, E. & Gilson, S.F. (in press) Understanding disability. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
DePoy, E., & Gilson, S.F. (2009). Designer diversity: Moving beyond categorical branding. The Journal of Comparative Social Welfare.
DePoy, E., & Gilson, S.F. (2009). Social work practice with disability: Moving from the perpetuation of a client category to human rights and social justice. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics.
DePoy, E. and Gilson, S.F. ( 2008) Guest Editor’s Introduction: DePoy, E. and Gilson, S.F. ( 2008) Disability Studies: Origins, Current Conflict, and Resolution. Review of Disability Studies, 4,4.
DePoy, E. and Gilson, S.F. ( 2008) Disability Studies: Origins, Current Conflict, and Resolution. Review of Disability Studies, 4,4.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S.F. (2008). Designing university techscapes: An inter-organizational universal design collaboration to advance equality of participation in university organizations, In J. Salmons and L. Wilson (Eds), Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy .
DePoy, E., & Gilson S. (2008). Healing the disjuncture: Social work disability practice. In K.M. Sowers & C.N. Dulmus (Series Editors) & B.W.White (Vol. Ed.), Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare: Vol. 1. The Profession of Social Work. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Gilson, S. F., & DePoy, E. (2008). Explanatory legitimacy: A model for disability policy development and analysis. In K. M. Sowers (Series Ed.) I. Colby (Vol. Ed.), Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare: Vol 4. Social policy and policy practice (pp. 203-217). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
DePoy, E. & Gilson, S.F. (2008) Evaluation practice. Boston, MA: Taylor and Francis.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2007) The human experience: Description, explanation, and judgment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gilson, S.F. & DePoy, E., (2007). Da vinci’s ill-fated design legacy: Homogenization and standardization International Journal of the Humanities, 4, http://www.Humanities-Journal.com
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2007). The Bell-Shaped Curve: Alive, Well and Living in Diversity Rhetoric. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations.
Gilson, S. F., & DePoy, E. (2007). Geographic analysis for the social sciences. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 1.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2006). Universal web access: An intelligent web interface. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 1, 128-131.
Gilson, S.F. & DePoy, E., (2005/2006). Reinventing atypical bodies in art, literature and technology . International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 3, 7, http://www.Technology-Journal.com.
DePoy, E., & Gilson, S.F. (2005/2006). Moving beyond nomothetic category: Diversity as symmetry. International Journal of the Humanities, 4, http://www.Humanities-Journal.com
DePoy, E. & Gilson, S.F. (2005/2006) Universal access technology: Advancing the civil right to information literacy. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 1, http://www.Technology-Journal.com.
Cramer, E.P., Gilson, S.F., & DePoy, E. (2004). Women with disabilities and experiences of abuse. in N. J. Smyth (Ed.). Women and girls in the social environment: Behavioral perspectives. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S.F. (2004) Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks-Cole.
