Biography
Robert Perrucci is professor of sociology emeritus at Purdue University. He joined the faculty in 1962, was promoted to full professor in 1967, and served as department head from 1978-87. In 1969, he was a Simon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, England, in 1969. He has received major research grants from NSF, NIMH, and the Sloan Foundation. He is author/editor of 19 books and over 90 book chapters and research articles in leading journals, including five in the American Sociological Review, on topics related to work and occupations, complex organizations, mental illness, and the impact of the global economy on workers, communities and structures of inequality.
Research Interest
He has served as editor of Social Problems, The American Sociologist, Contemporary Sociology, and Associate Editor of the American Sociological Review. He has held elected positions as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the North Central Sociological Association, and Chair of the Organizations and Occupations Section of the American Sociological Association. Two of his books have received the Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association, and he has received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the State University of New York at Cortland, and Purdue University. In 2005, he received the Lee Founders Lifetime Achievement Award from the society for the Study of Social Problems, and in 2008, from the North Central Sociological Association, the J. Milton Yinger Award for a Lifetime Distinguished Career.
Biography
James Anderson, Ph.D. earned a B.E.S. in Chemical Engineering, M.S.E. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, M.A.T. in Chemistry and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Education and Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the former Director of the Division of Engineering of the Evening College at Johns Hopkins University. At Purdue, he has served as Assistant Dean for Analytical Studies of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (1975-1978), Associate Director of the Health Services Research Training Program supported by the U.S. public Health Service (1971-1976), Director of the Social Research Institute (1995-1998), and Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (1994-Present)
Research Interest
Author/Co-author of five books including Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems. Springer, 2005; Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition, Springer, 2002; and Evaluating Health Care Information Systems: Methods and Applications, Sage, 1994
Biography
Douglas A. Feldman, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal. He is the recipient of the Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology, and the Distinguished Service Award of the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group.
Research Interest
He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal.
