Editor Information
Editor:
William R. Avison, Editor (Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1977) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario with cross-appointments in the Departments of Paediatrics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He is also Chair of the Division of Children’s Health and Therapeutics at the Children’s Health Research Institute, and Assistant Director of the Lawson Health Research Institute. His current research focuses on the ways in which socio-economic disadvantage and various types of social stressors affect the health of families across the life course. He was the 2009 recipient of the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health and the 2004 recipient of the Society for the Study of Social Problems' James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health. Avison is currently Chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and a past chair of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Mental Health.
Deputy Editors:
Carol S. Aneshensel, Deputy Editor (Ph.D., Cornell,1976) is Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Her research primarily addresses the social origins of psychological disorder, for the most part depressive symptoms. It spans the life course from adolescence through old age. Her work typically employs large survey samples and complex multivariate statistical analysis of longitudinal data. Other areas of research include the mental health impact of caregiving for persons with dementia and persons with HIV/AIDS, and the social and cultural determinants of adolescent fertility-related behavior. Her most recent work examines the linkages between the socioeconomic stratification and racial/ethnic segregation of neighborhoods and health, including depression, cognitive functioning, physical health and mortality. Work in progress applies a life course perspective to variations in the impact of neighborhood. She is a prior recipient of the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for distinguished contributions to the sociological study of mental health and the Leo G. Reeder Award for distinguished contributions to medical sociology.
Carol A. Boyer, Deputy Editor (Ph.D., Yale, 1986) is associate director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and a member of the graduate faculty in the department of sociology at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on access, utilization and the content of treatment and services provided to individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and the impact of mental health services on social functioning, symptomatology, and quality of life. Current projects involve examining psychosocial interventions and strategies to enhance adherence with antipsychotic medications and linking individuals with long inpatient psychiatric stays in state hospitals to supported housing and community services. Prior research focused on the concordance in recognizing nonadherence among psychiatrists and primary therapists and their agreement with clients' medication-taking behavior. She works collaboratively with researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research analyzing patterns in mental health services utilization and stigma. Currently she is a Study Section Reviewer for Health Systems Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Secretary-Treasurer of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Scott Schieman, Deputy Editor (Ph.D. University of New Hampshire, 1997) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests focus on work, the work-family interface, stress processes and mental health. He also has interests in the sociological study of religion—especially the social psychological and health effects of religious beliefs. He was named as a Senior Research Fellow of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation from 2009-2011. He has served as a member of Council of the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health of the American Sociological Association.
Managing Editor:
Gale Cassidy, Managing Editor (M.A. University of Western Ontario, 1998) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario and manager of the Aging & Health Research Centre. Her research interests are in the area of gender, family and poverty.
Associate Editors:
| Alex E. Bierman University of Calgary |
Donna D. McAlpine University of Minnesota |
Sarah Rosenfield Rutgers University |
| Bruce P. Dohrenwend Columbia University |
Jane D. McLeod Indiana University |
Robin W. Simon Wake Forest University |
| William W. Eaton Johns Hopkins University |
David Mechanic Rutgers University |
David Takeuchi University of Washington |
| Linda K. George Duke University |
Elizabeth G. Menaghan The Ohio State University |
Mark B. Tausig University of Akron |
| Virginia A. Hiday North Carolina State University |
Richard Miech University of Colorado Denver |
Peggy A. Thoits Indiana University |
| Allan V. Horwitz Rutgers University |
Joseph P. Morrissey University of North Carolina |
Heather A. Turner University of New Hampshire |
| Michael Hughes Virgina Polytechnical Institute and State University |
Krysia Mossakowski University of Miami |
R. Jay Turner Vanderbilt University |
| Howard B. Kaplan Taxas A & M University |
Samuel Noh Univerity of Toronto |
Blair Wheaton University of Toronto |
| Mary Clare Lennon City University of New York |
Leonard I. Pearlin University of Maryland |
K.A.S. Wickrama Iowa State University |
| Bruce G. Link Columbia University |
Bernice A. Pescosolido Indiana University |
David R. Williams Harvard University |
| Spero M. Manson University of Colorado Denver |
Jo C. Phelan Columbia University |
Eric R. Wright Indiana University |
| Kristen Marcussen Kent State University |
Christian Ritter Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine |