WALLIS E. ADAMS Curriculum Vitae

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1 WALLIS E. ADAMS Curriculum Vitae Affiliation: Address: Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Northeastern University Institute on Urban Health Research & Practice, Northeastern 360 Huntington Ave., 333 International Village Boston, MA EDUCATION: Present Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2011 M.P.H., Health Education and Promotion, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 2004 B.A., Gender and Women s Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH AREAS OF INTEREST: Health and Illness, Mental Health, Recovery, Health Disparities, Diagnosis Criminal Justice, Criminology, Community Reentry, Deviance, Social Control Puerto Rican Identity, Health, and Migration AWARDS & RESEARCH GRANTS: 2016 Brudnick Center Student Research Award, Brudnick Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2016 Departmental Summer Mini- Grant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2013 Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award, Honorable Mention APHA, Aging and Public Health Authors: Guzzardo, M, Todorova, I., Adams, W., and Falcon, L Barbara A. Cooley Scholarship in Health Education, Graduate Level American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 1

2 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: Lincoln, A., and Adams, W Understandings of community among people using publicly funded community mental health services. Pp in Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 17: 50 Years after Deinstitutionalization: Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., Todorova, I., and Falcon, L Resonating sentiments on Puerto Rican identity through poetry: Voices of the diaspora. Qualitative Inquiry. 22(5): Guzzardo, M., Todorova, I., Adams, W., and Falcon, L Half here, half there : Dialogical selves among older Puerto Ricans of the diaspora. Journal of Constructive Psychology. 29(1): Adams, W., Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., and Falcon, L The problem here is that they want to solve everything with pills : Medication use and identity among Mainland Puerto Ricans. Sociology of Health and Illness. 37(6): Adams, W., Todorova, I., and Falcon, L Puerto Rican Victimization and Crime on the Mainland: The Role of Acculturation. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 37(1): Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., and Falcon, L Gratitude and Longing: Meanings of Health in Aging for Puerto Rican Adults in the Mainland. Journal of Health Psychology. 20(12): George, S., Phillips, R. McDavitt, B., Adams, W., and Mutchler, M The cellular generation and a new risk environment: Implications for texting- based sexual health promotion interventions among minority young men who have sex with men. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive. 2012: MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS: Revise/ Resubmit: Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., Todorova, I., and Falcon, L. Harmonizing traditional beliefs with new realities: Social support experiences of Puerto Ricans with disabilities. Lincoln, A., Adams, W., Eyllon, M., Garverich, S, Prener, C., Paasche- Orlow, M., Griffith, J., and Hopper, K. The double- stigma of limited literacy and mental illness: Examining barriers to recovery and participation among public mental health services users 2

3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Undergraduate Instructor Department of Sociology, Northeastern University. Boston, MA. Law and Social Justice (Spring 2016) Undergraduate Instructor Department of Criminology/ Sociology, Framingham State University. Framingham, MA. Social Deviance (Fall 2014; Spring 2015) Undergraduate Instructor Department of Sociology, Boston University. Boston, MA. Sociology of Mental Illness (Spring, 2014) Graduate Teaching Assistantship Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University. Boston, MA. Statistics (Fall, 2011) Introduction to Sociology (Spring, 2012) Sociology of Violence (Fall, 2012) Health and Society (Spring, 2013) Teaching Associate Department of Health Sciences, California State University, Northridge. Northridge, CA. Biostatistics (Fall 2010; Spring 2011) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: present present Graduate Research Fellow Study on Literacy and Mental Health Institute on Urban Health Research and Practice Northeastern University, Boston, MA Graduate Research Assistant Boston Puerto Rican Health Study Northeastern University, Boston, MA Research Assistant Community Based Participatory Research AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Adams, W., Arford, T., Eyllon, M., Garverich, S., Prener, C., Lincoln, A Multiple Stigmas: The co- occurrence of stigma associated with mental illness and 3

4 limited literacy. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Lincoln, A., Garverich, S., Paasche- Orlow, M., Rosenfeld, L., Griffith, J., Eyllon, M., Prener, C., Nykiel, S., Adams, W., and Hopper, K Examining Limited Literacy in the Lives of People with Mental Illness: Unexamined barriers to treatment, recovery and participation. Special Session presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Prener, C., Eyllon, M. Adams, W., Arford, T., Garverich, S. Griffith, J., Guyer, M., Johnson, P., Paasche- Orlow, M., Rosenfeld, L., and Lincoln, A Examining Literacy among People with Serious Mental Illness: Reading, aural and numeracy. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Adams, W., Garverich, S., and Lincoln, A Meaning and Management of Psychiatric Medication Among Public Mental Health Service Users. Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. Eyllon, M., Lincoln, A., Garverich, S., Adams, W., Prener, C., Griffith, J., Paasche- Orlow, M., and Hopper, K The Double- Stigma of Limited Literacy and Mental Illness: Examining barriers to recovery and participation among public mental health service users. Poster presented at the Mental Health Awareness Conference at Columbia University, New York, NY. Lincoln, A., and Adams, W. (presenter) The Role of Literacy in Addressing Needs of People with Disability. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY. Lincoln, A., Garverich, S., Adams, W., Arford, T., Nykiel, S., Paasche- Orlow, M., Prener, C. and Rosenfeld, L Examining literacy and potential related factors in public urban mental health service users. Paper presented at the Health Literacy Research Conference, Bethesda, MD. Garverich, S., Prener, C., Adams, W., Lincoln, A., Examining literacy among public urban mental health service users. Poster presented at the Institute on Psychiatric Services conference, New York, NY. Adams, W., Prener, C., Garverich, S., Arford, T., Lincoln, A Understandings of Community and Subjective Social Status Among People Using Public Community Mental Health Centers. Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA. Adams, W., Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., and Falcon, L The problem here is that they want to solve everything with pills : Differentiating and integrating 4

5 multiple meanings of medication. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association, Leeds, UK. Adams, W., Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., and Falcon, L The problem here is that they want to solve everything with pills : Integrating embodied and cultural meanings of medication. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD. Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., and Falcon, L I don t have any complaints : Meanings of health in aging for Puerto Rican adults in the US Mainland. Paper presented to the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Bradford, UK. Pescador, M., Adams, W., and Falcon, L The Effects of Labor Market Experiences and the Migration Processes on Health Outcomes for Older Puerto Ricans. Paper presented to the International Labour Process Conference, New Brunswick, NJ. Guzzardo, M., Todorova, I., Adams, W., and Falcon, L I don t have any complaints : Meanings of health in aging for Puerto Rican adults in the US Mainland. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association s Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Adams, W Crime and Puerto Ricans on the Mainland: The Role of Acculturation and Mental Health. Roundtable presented at American Sociological Association, New York, NY. Adams, W., Pescador, M., and Falcon, L The Impact of Labor Market Experiences on Allostatic Load for Older Puerto Ricans. Roundtable Presented at Society for the Study of Social Problems annual conference, New York, NY. Adams, W International sex tourism: How techniques of neutralization are utilized on the web to facilitate a global concern. Paper presented to American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. George, S., Philips, R., McDavitt, B., Adams, W. and Mutchler, M "The Cellular Generation and a New Risk Environment: Implications for Texting- Based Sexual Health Promotion Interventions among Minority Young Men Who Have Sex with Men" Paper presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL. Mutchler, M., George, S., McDavitt, B., Philips, R., and Adams, W Sleeping and texting with my phone: Implications for mental health and sexual health promotion among black and Latino young men who have sex with men. 5

6 Invited Presentation at the Second International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Adams, W International sex tourism: Gendered, global deviance. Paper presented at the Annual Graduate Student Globalization Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Jimenez, M.P., Adams, W., and Falcon, L The Effects of Labor Market Experiences on Health Outcomes for Older Puerto Ricans. Poster presented at Northeastern University s Research, Innovation, Scholarship Expo, Boston MA. Adams, W Intimate partner violence, social support, and exposure to network and community level crime. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association s Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. EVALUATION EXPERIENCE: Independent Program Evaluator Sport in Society, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Bullying Prevention Institute Inner- City Weightlifting 2011 Client Services Evaluation Adams, W. McDavitt, B. Mutchler, M Client Survey: Executive Summary. AIDS Project LA, Los Angeles, CA DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: Graduate Student Representative: Intellectual Events Committee Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Forum Co- Organizer: The Sociology of Health and Wellness: A Dialogue of Scholars April 2012 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University President: Master of Public Health Student Association, California State University, Northridge 6

7 Graduate Student Representative: Health Education Faculty Committee M.P.H Community Advisory Committee California State University, Northridge PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Sociological Association Section Memberships: Medical Sociology; Crime, Law, & Deviance; Sociology of Mental Health; Latina/o Sociology Society for the Study of Social Problems Division Memberships: Society and Mental Health; Health, Health Policy, and Health Services; Crime and Juvenile Delinquency American Public Health Association Section Membership: Mental Health 7