curriculum vitae - Department of Sociology - University of Kansas

CURRICULUM VITAE 7-10
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NAME Mary K. Zimmerman
mzimmerman@ku.edu
ADDRESS University of Kansas School of Medicine University of Kansas
Office: Department of Health Policy and Management Department of Sociology
5002 Student Center, Mail Stop 3044 741 Fraser Hall
3901 Rainbow Blvd Lawrence, KS 66045
Kansas City, KS 66106 PH: (785) 864-9413
PH: (913) 588-6288 FAX: (913) 588-3762
Home:
8125 Fontana Street
Prairie Village, KS 66208
PH: (913) 341-1633
CURRENT POSITIONS
University of Kansas
Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies,
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Scholar, Institute for Policy and Social Research
Research Consultant, Office of Aging and Long-Term Care, School of Social Welfare
Affiliated Faculty Member: American Studies, Women’s Studies, European Studies, East Asian
Studies, Gerontology Center (Lawrence Campus) Center on Aging
(School of Medicine)
EDUCATION
1963-1967 BA - Sociology (Honors Program) University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
1968-1971 MA - Sociology University of Minnesota--Minneapolis
1971-1976 PhD – Sociology University of Minnesota--Minneapolis
Dissertation:
“Passage Through Abortion: The Personal and Social Reality of Women’s Experiences”
SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
Big Twelve Faculty Fellowship, 2002-03
Fulbright Research Fellowship (Finland), 1990
National Institutes of Health, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Heart, Lung and Blood Institute), 1976-
1977.
National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, 1968-1972.
McCormick Scholarship, University of Michigan, 1965.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Medical Sociology; Sociology of Women and Gender; Comparative Health Systems, Social Policy and
Welfare Regimes; Research Methodology
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1972-1974 Instructor Dept of Sociology, University of Wisconsin—River Falls
1975 Instructor Dept of Sociology, University of Missouri—Kansas City
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1976-1978 Adjunct Instructor Department of Community Health
University of Kansas School of Medicine
1978-1982 Assistant Professor Dept of Behavioral Sciences
University of Minnesota, Duluth, School of Medicine
1978-1982 Adjunct Asst. Professor Dept of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Duluth
1978-1981 Director Floodwood Health Project for Senior Citizens,
St. Louis County, Minnesota
1982-present Assistant to Full Dept of Health Services Administration
Professor
University of Kansas
[From 1999: Dept of Health Policy and Management, School of
Medicine]
1982-2001 Courtesy Assistant to
Associate Professor Dept of Sociology, University of Kansas
1986 Acting Chair Dept of Health Services Administration (KU)
1990 Visiting Scholar Dept of Psychology, Institute of Occupational Health
Helsinki, Finland
2001-present Professor Dept of Sociology
University of Kansas
HONORS AND AWARDS
International Faculty Seminar on Global Health, presenter, University of Kansas, 2010
Hall Foundation Faculty Health and Humanities Seminar, co-director, University of Kansas, 2007-2009
Rose Dobrof Award for the best article published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2005
Phi Beta Delta, International Scholars Honorary Society, 2001
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, 2000
Hall Foundation Faculty Gender Seminar, co-director, University of Kansas, 1996-1997
Hall Foundation Faculty Gender Seminar, presenter, University of Kansas, 1995
Fulbright Scholar, Helsinki, Finland, 1990
Outstanding Woman Teacher, University of Kansas, 1989
Midwest Sociological Society Visiting Scholar, 1989
University of Minnesota Faculty Research Leave Award, Spring 1981
First Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Midwest Sociological Society, 1976
Outstanding Woman of the Year, Panhellenic, University of Michigan, 1967
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Review Panels:
Chair, Centers for Disease Control Special Emphasis Panel: 2009 CDC Dissertation Grants for Public Health
Research
Editorial Boards:
Gender & Society, 1986-1989, 2001-2004
Co-Editor, special issue: “Global Perspectives on Gender and Care Work” 2003
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1987-1988, Associate Editor
Journal of Health Administration Education, 2003-2009
Journal of Poverty, 2004-present
Sociological Inquiry, 1993-1996
Symbolic Interaction, 1979-1995
Sociological Quarterly, 1982-1987; 1990-1995; 2009-present
Ad Hoc Manuscript/Grant Reviews:
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National Science Foundation, National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety, USDHHS Office of Women’s
Health, American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Problems, Gender and Society
Sociology of Work and Occupations, Social Psychology Quarterly, Research on Aging
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, American Sociologist, The Journal for Health Administration Education
Symbolic Interaction, Sociological Quarterly, Sex Roles, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological
Spectrum, Sociological Focus, Journal of Social Thought and Research, Journal of Poverty.
Mayfield Publishing Company, University of California Press, State University of New York Press, Temple University
Press, Rutgers University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Sage Publications, University of Illinois Center for
Research on Women and Gender, Vanderbilt University Press, Thomson/Delmar Press.
Professional Associations:
1968-present American Sociological Association
1968-present Medical Sociology Section
1970-present Sex and Gender Section
1987-1990 Council, Sex and Gender Section
1987-1990 Publications Committee, elected member
1993-1994 Sex and Gender Section Dissertation Award Committee
1994-1995 Chair, Sex and Gender Section Dissertation Award Committee
1997-1998 Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching
1998-1999 Chair, Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching
2006-2009 Distinguished Book Award Selection Committee
2006 American College of Health Care Executives
Faculty Partner, National Survey of Members (invited)
1969-present Midwest Sociological Society
1976-1979 Committee on Standards, Training and Employment
1981 Judge, Graduate Student Paper Competition
1981-1983 Publications Committee
1984 Chair, Publications Committee
1985-1988 Board of Directors
1987, 1990, 1998 Program Committee
1988-1992 Long-range Planning Committee
1992 Local Arrangements Committee
1994-1998 Endowment Committee
1999-2002 Nominations Committee
2001-2005 Endowment Committee
2006-2009 Finance Committee
2010-2011 President Elect and 2011 Program Chair
1971-present Sociologists for Women in Society
1985-1986 Chair, Publications, Research and Education Committee
1985-1986 Chair, Journal Committee
[Founded the scholarly journal, Gender & Society]
1987-1990 Publications, Research and Education Committee
1996 Chair, Activism Award Committee
1997 President
1997 Executive Oversight Committee
2001-2003 Mentor
2004-present International Committee
2006-2007 Feminist Lecture Committee
2000-present Carework Network
2003-2007 Steering Committee (elected)
1976-1990 Society for the Study of Social Problems
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1987-1988 Membership Committee
1988-1990 Co-Chair, Div of Health, Health Policy and Health Services
1979-1990 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
1984-1985 George Herbert Mead Award Committee
1985-1986 Chair, George Herbert Mead Award Committee
1988-1989 Cooley Award Committee
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (since 1988):
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “Hospital Competition, Innovation and Quality of Care: A Study of Hospital-
Sponsored Women’s Health Centers” University of Kansas General Research Fund. $4632.
1988-9.
PI: Stephen Maynard-Moody, Co-PI: Mary Zimmerman. “AIDS Knowledge, Beliefs and Attitudes
Survey for the General Population and High Risk Groups” State of Kansas Department of
Health and Environment. 1989.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “The Impact of Childhood Illness on the Family in Two Types of Health Care
Systems: A Comparative Study of the United States and Finland” Fulbright Foundation. $5,000
1990.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “The Impact of Cancer on the Family in Finland and the United States” SYLVA
(Childhood Cancer Parent Organization of Finland). $2,000. 1990.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “The Impact of Childhood Cancer on Parents’ Health and Well-Being: A
Comparative Study” American Cancer Society Institutional Grant to the University of Kansas.
$11,936. 1991-2.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “The Impact of Public versus Private National Health Care: A Comparative
Study of Serious Illness in Finland and the United States” University of Kansas General Research
Fund. $7357. 1992.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “Social Welfare and Health Care: The Swedish Experience” University of
Kansas Pharmacy Faculty Development Grant. $2785. 1992.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-I/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman. “Evaluation of the Kansas Nursing
Home Pre-Admission Screening Program: 1994” State of Kansas Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services. 1994-5.
PI: Mary Zimmerman, Co-PI: Anne Vittoria. “The Social Meaning of Alzheimer’s Disease:
Ethnography of a Special Care Unit.” Alzheimer’s Association. $30,000. 1994-5.
[funded Anne Vittoria’s doctoral dissertation].
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “Financial Status and Health Care Utilization Patterns of Medicaid Recipients in
Kansas” Legal Aid of Kansas. $300. 1995.
PI: Pamela Duncan, Co-PI: Mary Zimmerman. “Developing Review Criteria for Stroke Rehabilitation
Outcomes” University of Kansas General Research Fund. $13,552. 1995-6.
PI: Michael Fox. Co-Investigators: Mary Zimmerman, Shirley Hill. “The Effects of a Consumer
Health Plan Comparison Guide on Decision-making by Women Enrolled in Medicaid” State of
Kansas $112,288. 1998-9.
PI: Michael Fox. Co-investigator: Mary Zimmerman, et al. “An Evaluation of the Medicaid Managed
Care Program In Kansas” State of Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
$137,072. 1998-2000.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-I/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman. “Longitudinal Study of Customers
Diverted Through the CARE Program” State of Kansas Department of Aging. $1,200,000.
1999-2002.
PI: Mary Zimmerman. “Evaluation of the Life Savers Donor Awareness Program.” Gift of Life
Foundation, Overland Park, KS. $2000. 2001-02
PI: Mary Zimmerman, Co-PI Rodney McAdams. “Local Funding for Health Services in Rural Counties”
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization Initiative
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(HCFO) Grant# 47355. $100,000. 2003-2004.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-I/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman. “Diversion and Successful
Community Tenure among Kansas Nursing Facility Applicants: The Role of Diagnoses and
Medication Use.” State of Kansas Department on Aging and State Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services. FY2004.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-PI/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman. “Elderly Medicaid Recipients Who
Have Maintained CommunityTenure: Final Outcomes and Potential Cost Savings in End of Life
Care.” State of Kansas Department on Aging. FY2004.
PI: Sarah Forbes, Investigator: Mary Zimmerman. “Kansas Nursing Facility Project: What, Why and
How Facility Characteristics Affect Survey Outcomes” State of Kansas Department on
Aging/State of Kansas Department of Health and Environment. $264,759. 2002-2005.
PI: Mary Zimmerman, Co-PI: Barrie Thorne (U-C Berkeley) “Carework Conference: Bridging
Carework Research, Advocacy and Policy”Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant #B2004-11. $5,500.
2004.
PI: Shirley Hill and Mary Zimmerman. “Understanding Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes”
University of Kansas General Research Fund FY2005. $2964.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-PI/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman. “Tracking of Community Tenure of
Medicaid Customers and Analysis of Hospice Utilization.” State of Kansas Department on Aging.
FY2005.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-PI/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman, “Medicaid and Other State Funded
Long Term Care Services: Utilization Patterns and Community Tenure Outcomes.” State of
Kansas Department on Aging. FY2006.
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-PI/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman, “Hard-to-Reach Kansans: Mapping,
Examining Access and Identifying Successful Outreach Strategies” State of Kansas Department
on Aging. FY2006-2007.
Current Grant and Contract Support:
PI: Rosemary Chapin, Co-PI/Methodologist: Mary Zimmerman, “The Impact of Workforce
Enhancement Grants in Nursing Homes and Hospital Long-Term Care Units” State of Kansas
Department on Aging/Kansas Health Policy Authority. FY2008-2010
PUBLICATIONS
Books.
Mary K. Zimmerman. 1977. Passage through Abortion: The Personal and Social Reality of Women's
Experiences. New York: Praeger Publications.
Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacqueline Litt and Christine Bose (eds). 2006. Global Dimensions of Gender
And Carework.. Stanford University Press.
Journal Special Issues.
Jacqueline Litt and Mary K. Zimmerman (eds). “Global Perspectives on Gender and Carework” a special
issue of Gender & Society 17(3).
Journal Articles and Chapters.
Published Articles:
1. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1976. “Alignment Strategies in Verbal Accounts of Problematic Conduct:
The Case of Abortion” The Sociology of Languages of American Women. San Antonio: Trinity
University Press.
2. Mary K. Zimmerman and David Chein. 1981. “Social Characteristics, Offense and the
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Attribution of Responsibility: Decision-Making in the Juvenile Court” Social Work Research
and Abstracts 17 (4): 14-21.
3. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1981. "The Abortion Clinic: Another Look at the Management of Stigma," pp.
43-52 in Stone and Farberman (Eds.), Social Psychology Through Symbolic Interaction, 2nd. Edition,
Wiley.
4. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1981. "Psychosocial and Emotional Consequences of Elective Abortion: A
Literature Review," pp. 65-75 in Paul Sachdev (Ed.), Abortion: Readings and Research, Butterworth
Press.
5. Mary K. Zimmerman and Wynona S. Hartley. 1982. “High Blood Pressure Among Employed
Women: A Multi-Factor, Discriminant Analysis” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 23(3):
205-220.
6. Burton P. Halpert and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1986. “The Health Status of the ‘Old-Old’: A
Reconsideration” Social Science and Medicine 22 (9): 893-899.
7. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1987. “The Woman’s Health Movement: A Critique of Medical
Enterprise and the Position of Women” pp. 442-471 in Myra Marx Ferree and Beth B. Hess (eds)
Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research. Sage Publications.
8. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1988. "Experiencing Abortion as a Crisis: The Impact of Social Context" in
Barbara J. Risman and Pepper Schwartz (eds.) Gender in Intimate Relationships: A Microstructural
Approach, Wadsworth.
9. Joey Sprague and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1989. “Quantity and Quality: Reconstructing Feminist
Methodology” The American Sociologist 20 (1): 71-86.
10. Raymond G. Davis, Timothy C. Zeddies, Mary K. Zimmerman and Robert A. McLean. 1990.
“Rural Hospitals Under PPS: A five-year Study” Journal of Rural Health 6(3): 286-301.
11. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1993. “Caregiving in the Welfare State: Mothers’ Informal Health Care
Work in Finland” Research in the Sociology of Health Care 10: 193-211.
12. Sprague, Joey and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1993. "Overcoming Dualisms: A Feminist Agenda for
Sociological Methodology," pp. 261-286 in Paula England (ed.) Theory on Gender/Feminism on
Theory, Aldine.
*Chinese translation. 2001. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
*reprinted in Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy (eds). 2002. Approaches to
Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press.
13. Sprague, Joey and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1993. "Standpoints and Theory: Reply to Tuana," pp. 296-
298 and "Seeing Past Sacred Science: Reply to Molm," pp. 325-327 in Paula England (ed.) Theory
on Gender/Feminism on Theory, Aldine.
14. Shirley A. Hill and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1995. “Valiant Girls and Vulnerable Boys: The
Impact of Gender and Race on Mothers’ Caregiving for Chronically-ill Children” Journal of
Marriage and Family 57 (1): 43-53.
15. Sarah Forbes, Pamela Duncan and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1997. “Developing Review Criteria for
Stroke Rehabilitation Guidelines: Archives of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine 78: 1112-
1116.
16. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1997. AWomen=s Health, Illness and Disability@ Women=s Studies Database,
Primis Publishing/McGraw-Hill.
17. Mary K. Zimmerman and Shirley A. Hill. 1999 “Health Care as a Gendered System” pp. 483-
518 in Janet Saltzman Chafetz (ed) The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Kluwer
Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
18. Mary K. Zimmerman and Rodney McAdams. 1999. “What We Say and What We Do: Countylevel
Public Spending for Health Care” Journal of Rural Health 15 (4): 421-430.
19. Mary K. Zimmerman. 2000. “Women’s Health and Gender Bias in Medical Education”
Research in the Sociology of Health Care 17: 121-138.
20. Mary K. Zimmerman and Shirley A. Hill. 2000. “Re-Forming Gendered Health Care: An
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Assessment of Change” International Journal of Health Services 30 (2): 769-793.
21. Mary K. Zimmerman and Amanda Mitchell. 2000. “Gender Differences in the Early Careers of
Health Care Managers” Journal of Health Administration Education 18 (4): 391-406.
22. Mary K. Zimmerman. 2000 “Medical Sociology” pp 1813-1818 in E. Borgatta and R.J. Montgomery
(eds) Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Macmillan.
23. Mary K. Zimmerman. 2000 Comparative Health Care Systems pp 373-383 in E. Borgatta and
R.J. Montgomery (eds) Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Macmillan.
24. Mary K. Zimmerman and Lisa Cox Hall. 2001.“Men and Women; Health and Illness” pp 426-35
in Dana Vannoy (ed). Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives. Original Readings. Roxbury.
25. Michael Fox, Janice Moore, Mary K. Zimmerman, Shirley Hill and Carly Hayden Foster.
2001.“The Effectiveness of CAHPS Among Women Enrolling in Medicaid” Journal of
Ambulatory Care Management. 24(4): 76-91.
26. Shirley A. Hill, Mary K. Zimmerman and Michael Fox. 2002. “Rational Choice in Medicaid
Managed Care: A Critique” Journal of Poverty 6 (2): 37-59.
27. Jacqueline Litt and Mary K. Zimmerman. 2003. “Global Perspectives on Gender and Carework:
Introduction” Gender & Society 17(3): 1-10.
28. Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, and Burton P. Halpert. 2004. “Funding Health
Services in the Rural United States: Federal Policies and Local Solutions”pp 211-224 in Nina
Glascow, Lois W. Morton and Nan Johnson (eds) Critical Issues in Rural Health. Blackwell
Publishers.
29. Mitsuko Nakashima, Rosemary Chapin, Kelley MacMillan and Mary K. Zimmerman. 2004.
“DecisionMaking in Long-Term Care: Approaches Used by Older Adults”. Journal of
Gerontological Social Work. 43 (4): 79-102.
30. Mary K. Zimmerman and Rodney McAdams. 2004. “Public Support for Rural Health Care:
Federal Programs and Local Hospital Subsidies.” Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Vol.
22: 25-45.
31. Peter A. Weil and Mary K. Zimmerman. 2007. “ Narrowing the Gender Gap in Healthcare
Management.” Healthcare Executive. 22(3): 22-30.
32. Jan E. Thomas and Mary K. Zimmerman. 2007. “Feminism and Profit in American Hospitals: The
Corporate Construction of Women’s Health Centers. Gender & Society. Vol.21 (3): 359-383.
33. Jeanne Hayes, Craig Boylstein and Mary K. Zimmerman. 2009. “Living and Loving with
Dementia: Negotiating Spousal and Caregiver Identity Through Narrative” Journal of Aging
Studies.
23 (January): 48-59.
34. Rosemary Chapin, Beth Baca, Kelley MacMillan, Roxanne Rachlin, Mary Zimmerman. 2009 .
“Residential Outcomes for Nursing Facility Applicants Who Have Been Diverted: Where Are
They Five Years Later?” The Gerontologist.49(1): 46-56.
35. Mary K.Zimmerman and Elizabeth Legerski. 2010 “The role of governments in health care:
Implications for Women’s Health and Access to Care.” Women’s Health Issues.20(2):87-91.
36. Jeanne Hayes, Mary K. Zimmerman and Craig Boylstein. 2010. “Responding to Symptoms
of Alzheimer’s Disease: Husbands, Wives and the Gendered Dynamics of Recognition and
Disclosure. Qualitative Health Research. 20 (8): 1101-1115.
Articles submitted/in preparation.
Mary K. Zimmerman and Tracey A. LaPierre. “Comparing Men’s and Women’s Career
Advancement in Health Care Management: Conditions for Positive Change.” In preparation.
Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, Lori Wiebold-Lippisch, and Robert Lee. “Local
Funding for Health Care in Rural Counties: An Analysis of Spending Patterns for Specific
Services” In preparation.
Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, Lori Wiebold-Lippisch and Robert Lee. “Local
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Public Funding for Health Care in Nine States: Which Counties Spend and Why?” In preparation.
Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams and Lori Wiebold-Lippisch “Maintaining Health Care
in Rural America: The Dimensions of Local Public Funding in Nine States.” In preparation.
Commentaries and Reviews.
37. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1976. Book Review: Deviants and Deviance: An Introduction to the
Study of Disvalued People and Behavior by Edward Sagarin. In Teaching Sociology 4(1):116-
38. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1982. Book Review: Doing Feminist Research edited by Helen Roberts.
in Contemporary Sociology 11 (6): 732-3.
39. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1983. “Teaching Sociology to Medical Students” Teaching Newsletter 8
(3): 2-3. (now Teaching Sociology)
40. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1983. “The Dual Sociologist Marriage: Reflections on Ten Years of
Career and Family” Midwest Feminist Papers 3: 56-59.
41. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1985. Book Review: Men and Abortion: Lessons, Losses and Love by
Art Shostak, G. McLouth and L. Seng. In Contemporary Sociology 14 (5): 619-20.
42. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1994. Book Review: The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and
AIDS by Gena Corea. In Gender & Society March: 140-1.
43. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1997. “On Work and Social Worth” Gender & Society 11 (5): 1-3
44. Mary K. Zimmerman. 1997. Book Review: Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and
the Commercialization of Identity by Sharlene Hesse-Biber. In Gender & Society April: 266-68.
39. 45. Mary K. Zimmerman. 2000 Book Review: Women’s Health Care: Activist Traditions and
Institutional Change by Carol S. Weisman. In Health 4 (2): 261-3.
PRESENTATIONS
Papers presented at national and international meetings:
1. Mary K. Zimmerman and Wynona S. Hartley. “High Blood Pressure Among Employed Women: A
Multi-Factor Discriminant Analysis” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Toronto, Canada:
August 1981.
2. Mary K. Zimmerman and Burton P. Halpert. “Factors that Distinguish Hypertensive from
Normotensive rural Elderly in Two Age Groups: 60-74 and 75+” Gerontological Society. Toronto,
Canada: November 1981.
3. Mary K. Zimmerman. “High Blood Pressure Among Women: Recent findings Concerning the
Impact of Employment, Age, Behavior Pattern and other Psychosocial Factors” First International
Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Haifa, Israel: December 1981.
4. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Changing patterns in Employment and Cardiovascular Disease in Men and
Women” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Detroit: August 1983.
5. Mary K. Zimmerman and Wynona S. Hartley. “Tracking Down Risk Factors in High Blood Pressure:
Employed Women and Job Responsibility” Society of Prospective Medicine. Atlanta: October 1983.
6. Mary K. Zimmerman and Shirley Harkess. “Self-Reports of Stress and Domestic Workload Among
Employed Women” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Washington, D.C. August 1985.
7. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Male Participation in Contraceptive Risk-Taking: The Missing Link?”
Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York City: August 1986.
8. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Hospitals’ Competitive Strategies in Relation to Patient Services: The ‘New’
Women’s Health Centers” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta: August 1988.
9. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Competition and the Restructuring of Hospitals’ Health Services for Women:
Administrators, Physicians and Consumers” Society for the Study of Social Problems. San
10. Mary K. Zimmerman. “A Comparative Study of Health Services and the Well-Being of Parents
Caring for a Child with Chronic Illness: Finland and the U.S.A” The XIIth World Congress of
Sociology. Madrid, Spain: July 1990.
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11. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Family Disruption and Coping: The Impact of Childhood Cancer on Parents
in Finland” Fourth International Conference on Social Stress Research. Venice, Italy: June 1992.
12. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Health Insurance and Health Care Policy: Issues for Women” Sociologists for
Women in Society Conference on Social Change. Minneapolis: February 1992.
13. Shirley A. Hill and Mary K. Zimmerman. “The Impact of Gender on Caregiving Work” American
Sociological Association. Miami: August 1993
14. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Caregiving in the Welfare State: Mother’s Informal Care Work in Finland”
American Sociological Association. Miami: August 1993
15. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Comparisons of Health Care in Sweden, Finland and the United States”
Sociologists for Women in Society. Los Angeles: August 1994
16. Mary K. Zimmerman. “State Policies and Gender Equity in Caregiving: Parents of Children with
Cancer in Finland” XIII World Congress of Sociology. Bielefeld, Germany: July 1994.
17. Mary K. Zimmerman, Annika Lillrank and Martti Siimes. “Serious Illness and the Nordic Health
Care Model: The Impact of Childhood Cancer on Families in Finland” American Sociological
Association. Washington DC: August 1995.
18. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Changes in the Status of Women in the Health Care Professions: 1970-
1995” American Sociological Association. Washington DC: August 1995.
19. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Understanding Cancer: Objectivity, Validity and the Power of Shared
Experience” Conference on Encounters with Cancer: Personal Experiences and Professional
Perspectives. University of Tromso, Norway: June 1996.
20. Mary K. Zimmerman. “The Welfare State as a Gendered System: The Politics and Consequences of
Social Citizenship” American Sociological Association. New York City: August 1996.
21. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Women’s Health in Health Care Education and Training” United States
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women’s Health, Canada-US Forum on
Women’s Health. Ottawa, Canada: August 1996.
22. Sarah Forbes, Pamela Duncan and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Developing Review Criteria for Stroke
Rehabilitation Outcomes” Gerontological Society of America. Washington DC: November 1996.
23. Mary K. Zimmerman. “U.S. Medical Schools, the Status of Women Physicians and Women’s
Health” American Sociological Association. Toronto, Canada: August 1997.
24. Mary K. Zimmerman and Rodney McAdams. “Public Spending for Health Care: Ideology versus
Action in Kansas Counties, 1994-1996” National Rural Health Association. Orlando: May 1998.
25. Rodney McAdams and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Explaining Innovation in Health Care Delivery: A
Comparative Case Study of Two Kansas Counties” National Rural Health Association. Orlando:
May 1998.
26. Mary K. Zimmerman and Shirley A. Hill. “Health Care as a Gendered System” American
Sociological Association. San Francisco: August 1998.
27. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Changes in the Gendered Medical Division of Labor: Implications for
Physicians and Patients” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Madison, WI: July 1999.
28. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Progress in the Goals of the Women’s Health Movement” Sociologists for
Women in Society. Costa Mesa, CA: February 2000.
29. Rodney McAdams and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Who Leaves and Who Stays? An Analysis of Where
Rural Residents Receive Health Care Services” National Rural Health Association. New Orleans:
May 2000.
30. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Care Work as a Product of State-Market-Family Relations: Comparing
Finland and the U.S.” Carework: Research, Theory and Advocacy Conference. Howard University,
Washington DC: August 2000.
31. Mary K. Zimmerman, Shirley A. Hill and Michael Fox. “A Reality Check on the Idea of
Consumerism in Medicaid Managed Care” American Sociological Association. Washington DC:
August 2000.
32. Kelley R. Macmillan, Rosemary K. Chapin, Roxanne Rachlin, Jan Moore, Miko Nakashima and
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Mary Zimmerman. “Comparison Analysis of Diverted and Non-Diverted Nursing Facility
Applicants” Gerontological Society. Washington, DC: November 2000.
33. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Health Policy and Everyday Illness Experience: The Personal as Political”
Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis, MO: April 5-8, 2001. [invited]
34. Shirley A. Hill and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Meeting the Health Care Needs of the Poor: Do
Consumer Choice Policies Make a Difference?” American Sociological Association, Anaheim,
August 2001.
35. Anne K. Vittoria and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Gender, Resistance, and Work Culture in Institutional
Care” European Sociological Association. Helsinki: August 28-September 2, 2001.
36. Shirley A. Hill and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Understanding Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Social
Environmental Perspective on Healthy Babies” American Sociological Association, Chicago, August
2002.
37. Anne K. Vittoria and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Crucial Links: Resistance, The Meaning of Work and
Frontline Workers in Long Term Care” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Chicago,
August 2002.
38. Jeanne Hayes, Kelley R.Macmillan, Rosemary K. Chapin, Roxanne Rachlin and Mary K.
Zimmerman. “A Longitudinal Study of Customers Diverted from Nursing Facility Admission”
Gerontological Society. Boston: November 2002.
39. Jan E.Thomas and Mary K. Zimmerman. “’Beauty and Biology’: Another Repackaging of Women's
Health Care” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta: August 2003.
40. Mary K. Zimmerman and Rodney McAdams. “Publicly Funded Local Health Care in Rural Areas”
American Sociological Association, Atlanta: August 2003.
41. Kelley Macmillan, Jeanne Hayes, Rosemary Chapin, Roxanne Rachlin and Mary Zimmerman.
“Community Tenure of Older Adults: The role and Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Services
in Lieu of Permanent NF Placement” Gerontological Society, San Diego, November 23, 2003.
42. Rosemary Chapin, Mary Zimmerman, Kelley Macmillan, Roxanne Rachlin and Colleen Reed.
“Longitudinal research Policy Implications: Comparison of Community Dwelling Older Adults’ Long
Term Care Needs to Permanent NF Residents.” Gerontological Society, San Diego, November 23,
2003.
43. Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, Lori Wiebold-Lippisch, Patricia Oslund and Robert Lee.
“Local Funding for Health Care Services in Rural Counties” National Rural Health Association, San
Diego: May 28, 2004.
44. Jeanne Hayes and Mary K. Zimmerman. "The Implications of Gendered Perceptions of Identity
Changes in Spouses," 4 th Carework Network Conference, August 13, 2004, San Francisco.
45. Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, Lori Wiebold-Lippisch and Patricia Oslund. “Local
Public Funding for Health Care in Nine States: Which Counties Spend? For What? How Much?”
American Sociological Association, San Francisco: August 17, 2004.
46. Kelley MacMillan, Rosemary Chapin, Roxanne Rachlin, Mary Zimmerman and Beth Baca.
“Community Tenure of Older Adults 36 Months After NF Diversion: Challenging Assuptions With
Facts.” Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, November 21, 2005.
47. Theresa Gordon, Sarah Landry, Rosemary Chapin, Mary Zimmerman, Roxanne Rachlin and Ann
Hickey. “Examining Hospice Utilization Among Older Adults Applying for NF Placement.”
Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, November 21, 2005.
48. Devyani Chandrea, Rosemary Chapin, Mary Zimmerman, Roxanne Rachlin and Kelley MacMillan.
“Long Term Community Tenure following Nursing Facility Diversion: Service Utilization and
Implications for Policy.” Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, November 17, 2006.
49. Rodney McAdams, Mary K. Zimmerman, Lori Wiebold. “Critical Access hospitals and Their
Reliance on Local Tax Subsidies: A Longitudinal Study” National Rural Health Association,
Anchorage, AK, May, 2007.
50. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Engineering the Gender Division of Labor: Implementing a ‘Dual Carer’
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Model in Sweden.” 5 th International Carework Conference, NYC, August 10, 2007.
51. Beth Baca, Rosemary Chapin, E. Ko, Anne Hickey, Roxanne Rachlin and Mary Zimmerman.
“Vulnerable Older Adults and Community Services: What are the Successfuol Strategies to Meet
Their Needs?” Society for Social Work and Research. Washington, DC. January 2008.
52. Mary K. Zimmerman and Elizabeth Legerski. “Gender Regimes as a Key Concept in the Sociology
of
Gender” American Sociological Association, Boston, August 1, 2008.
53. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Family Leave and the Changing Division of Labor in Sweden” 6 th
International Carework Conference, San Francisco, CA. August 7, 2009.
54. Mary K. Zimmerman and Tracey LaPierre. “Comparing Men’s and Women’s Career Advancement in
Health Care Management: Conditions for Positive Change.” American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, August 14, 2010.
Papers presented at local and regional meetings.
55. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Recent Evidence Concerning the Psychosocial Effects of Elective Abortion”
Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis: April 1981.
56. Mary K. Zimmerman. “It Takes Two: Contraceptive Risk-Taking and the Role of the Male Partner”
Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago: April 1984.
57. Mary K. Zimmerman and Shirley Harkess. “Working Conditions at Home and on the Job as
Determinants of Self-Reported Stress for Employed Women” St. Louis: April 1985.
58. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Mothers’ Health/Children’s Health: Politics and the Epidemiology of
Mothering Risks” Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis: April 1988.
59. Mary K. Zimmerman and Burton P. Halpert. “Romancing the Market: Health Care Reform in
Sweden and Finland” Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago: April 1993.
60. Mary K. Zimmerman and Burton P. Halpert. “Health and Welfare Reforms in Sweden and Finland,
1990-96: How Safe is the Safety Net?” Midwest Sociological Society. Des Moines: April, 1997
61. Mary K. Zimmerman. “What Do Feminists Want? Gender-based Critiques of Qualitative
Methodology” Midwest Sociological Society. Kansas City: April 1998.
62. Mary K. Zimmerman. “TLC or CFO: Conflicted Caregivers in the Health Care Market” Midwest
Sociological Society. Minneapolis: March 1999.
63. Mary K. Zimmerman. “Health Policy and Everyday Illness Experience: The Personal as Political”
Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis: March 2001.
64. Mary K. Zimmerman, Rodney McAdams, Lori Wiebold-Lippisch, Alicia Reed and Brian Tongier.
“Maintaining Health Care in Rural America: Local Public Funding in Nine States.” Midwest
Sociological Society. Kansas City: April 2004.
Poster Presentations—national and international meetings.
65. Mary K. Zimmerman and Burton P. Halpert. “Factors Related to High Blood Pressure Among the
Rural Elderly” National Conference on High Blood Pressure Control. New York City: May,
1981. [
66. Burton P. Halpert and Mary K. Zimmerman. “The Old Old: Are They Really Worse Off Than the
Young Old?” Gerontological Society. Boston: November, 1982.
67. Rodney McAdams and Mary K. Zimmerman. “Explaining County Level Tax Support for Rural
Hospitals” National Rural Health Association. San Diego: May, 1999.
68. Miko Nakashima, Rosemary Chapin, Kelley MacMillan, Roxanne Rachlin and Mary K. Zimmerman.
“Analysis of Decision-Making Process among Frail Old Adults: Maintaining Community
Residence after a Nursing Facility Admission Screening” Gerontological Society, November,
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2001.
69. Rodney McAdams, Mary Zimmerman and Lori Wiebold. “Critical Access Hospitals and Their
Reliance on Local Tax Subsidies: A Longitudinal Study” National Rural Health Association.
Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
Invited Presentations at Other Universities.
Skidmore College (New York), Department of Sociology
“Unwanted, Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion” February, 1985
Millikin University (Illinois), Department of Sociology
“Families and Children with Cancer” November, 1989
Helsinki University (Finland), Department of Public Health, School of Medicine
“The Social Environment and Families’ Experiences with Childhood Cancer” January, 1990
Helsinki University (Finland), Department of Social Psychology
“The Social Environment and Families’ Experiences with Childhood Cancer” March, 1990
Joensu University (Finland), Department of Sociology
“Families and Comparative Research on Children with Cancer” April, 1990
Avila College (Missouri), Department of Sociology
“Current Topics in Medical Sociology” October, 1991
University of Minnesota, Duluth, School of Medicine.
“Patients’ Experiences of Health Care Systems: Finland and the United States” January, 1994.
Kenyon College (Ohio), Department of Sociology.
“Gender Issues in Managed Health Care” April 1998.
University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Graduate Program in Public Health Nursing
“Health Care in Sweden” April, 2000.
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Sociology.
“Recent Developments in the Sociology of Gender” April 2000
University of Minnesota, Duluth, Women’s Studies Program
“20 Years of Women’s Studies: Contributions and Prospects” March 2002
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Department of Sociology
“Reflections on Graduate Education in Sociology” March 2002
Iowa State University, Department of Sociology
“Examining Family Stress and Gender-Work Issues Through a Comparative Social Policy
Perspective: Sweden, Finland and the USA” October 23, 2003
University of Missouri-Columbia
“Comments on ‘The Public, Privacy and the Monopoly of Desperation in U.S. Reproductive
Technologies” March 10, 2005
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Lansdown Visiting Lecturer, April 25-29, 2006.
TEACHING
HPM 835/Soc 824. Health and Social Behavior
Audience: MHSA students (required
course), graduate students in sociology, other
KU graduate students
HPM 821/Soc 817. Health Services Research Methods: Audience: MHSA students (required
Epidemiology, Survey, Evaluation
HPM 850/Soc 617. Women’s Health and Health Care
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course), graduate students in sociology
(approved methods course for the
PhD in Sociology), other KU graduate students
Audience: MHSA students, Sociology
undergraduates and other upper-division

undergraduate and graduate students.
(Part of recommended curriculum in Women’s
Studies and American Studies.)
HPM 855. Comparative Health Care Systems Audience: MHSA students, Sociology and other
graduate students.
HPM 836/600. Health Care and Social Care in Audience: Offered nationally to graduate
Sweden and Finland
and undergraduate students, medical
students and professionals.
Soc 780/980. Gender and Social Policy
Audience: Sociology graduate students.
Soc 780/980. Critical Approaches in Medical Sociology Audience: Sociology graduate students.
Soc 624. Sociology of Health and Medicine
Audience: Sociology graduate students and
upper-division undergraduates
Other Courses Taught:
Social Theory, Social Control and Deviance, Social Problems, Men and Women in Contemporary Society
Teaching-related Activities:
Teaching Ambassador, KU Center for Teaching Excellence, 1998-2005
University Scholars Mentor Program, KU Honors Program. Invited to act as a faculty mentor for two
University Scholars (a select group within the KU honors program) 1986, 1995, 2003, 2007,
2008.
Marshall Scholarship Applicant Mentor, 2009.
Premedical Advisor, 1986-1996.
Visiting reviewer, senior honors theses in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio (April, 1998).
Test Question Writer, Graduate Record Examination in Sociology, Education Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
(1994 and 1997)
Grants to improve course content:
1990 KU Office of International Programs Faculty Development Grant. $700.
[Purpose: to develop a course with significant international content]
1999 KU East Asian Studies Center. $1500.
[Purpose: to strengthen the East Asian component of existing courses, i.e. Eastern Medicine.]
Dissertations and Theses Chaired:
1. Shirley Hill (Ph.D. in Sociology granted 1992)
current position: Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Dissertation Title: AManaging Sickle Cell Disease in Low Income Families@
Funded by: ASA/NIMH Minority Fellowship
Winner of the ASA Medical Sociology Section Best Dissertation Award
2. Anne K. Vittoria (Ph.D. in Sociology granted 1996)
current position: Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Gerontology Center,
State University of New York, Cortland
Title: AA World of Their Own: Life on an Alzheimer=s Special Care Unit@
Funded by: Alzheimer=s Association Grant
Nominated for the 1996 University of Kansas Dissertation Award
3. Rodney McAdams (Ph.D. in American Studies granted 1996)
current position: Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Armstrong Atlantic State
University, Savannah, Georgia.
Title: AExplaining Health Care Innovation in Rural Communities: A Comparative Case Study@
4. Linda Helmig (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology granted 1997)
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Title: AUnplanned Pregnancy and Reproductive Outcomes in Finland and the United States@
Funded by the Fulbright Foundation
5. Janet K. Williams (Ph.D. in Special Studies granted 1997)
Title: AServices for Brain Injured Persons in Independent Living Centers: Explaining the Variation@
Funded by: U.S. Department of Education
6. Teresa Hill (MA in Sociology granted 1995)
Title: “Will The Circle Be Unbroken: The Experiences of Women in Blue Grass”
7. Lisa Cox Hall (MA in Sociology granted 1997)
Title: “Modern and Postmodern Breast Cancer Narratives”
8. Jeanne A. Hayes (PhD in Sociology granted 2003)
Current position: Director of Research Compliance, VA Medical Center, Kansas City
Title: “Intimate Relationships When Continuity of Self is Threatened: Alzheimer’s Patients and Their
Spouses”
9. Lisa Cox Hall (PhD in Sociology granted with Honors, May, 2006)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, North Dakota State University,
Fargo
Title: “The Significance of Age in the Social Construction of Breast Cancer Experience”
10. Lori Wiebold (PhD in Sociology granted 2009)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Title: “Safeguarding the Heartland: County Government and Community Survival in the Era of
Globalization”
11. Elizabeth Legerski (PhD in Sociology granted August,2010)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Dakota
Title: “Hierarchies of Risk: The Longitudinal Dynamics of Family, Work, Welfare and Health
Insurance in Low-Income Women’s Lives”
12. Pooya S.D. Naderi (PhD in Sociology expected 2012)
Graduate Student Committees (113 graduate committees since 1983)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
(available on request)
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