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Dana Burr Bradley, Ph.D.

College of Health and Human Services
Western Kentucky University

 

Education

Carnegie-Mellon University - 1994 - Ph.D. - Applied History and Social Science

Carnegie-Mellon University - 1985 - M.S. - Applied History and Social Science

University of Rochester - 1983 - B.A. - History and Biology with High Distinction

Professional Development

Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

  • Cliff Todd Distnghisued Professor of Gerontology & Associate Professor of Public Health, 2005-
  • Director, Center for Gerontology

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

  • Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gerontology, 1997 – 2005
  • Lecturer in Gerontology, 1995- 1996; Instructor in Public Administration, 1992-1995

Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Director, UNCC-Duke Partnership, 1994 - 2005

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Instructor,Department of History, 1986

Honors

  • Invited Presenter, XVIII World Congress on Gerontology, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, June 2005.
  • Elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, 2004.
  • Elected Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, 2003.
  • Innagural Professor of the Year, Master in Public Administration Program, The UNC at Charlotte, 2001.
  • Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow, 1983 –1985.
  • Graduate Research Fellow, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1984 –1988.

Areas of Research and Teaching

Aging Policy; Civic Engagement; Volunteerism; Retirement.


Publications

2005. Enduring Questions and Controversies , Debra Sheets, Dana Burr Bradley and Jon Hendricks (eds.), New York: Springer Publishing.

In press, “ Federal Policies and Local Realities: The Case of Appalachian Senior Programs." Journal of Educational Gerontology. (with Bradley Nash, Jr.).

In press. “Factors That May Limit the Role of Community Philanthropy in Developing Nonprofit Capacity. “Policy and Management Review. (with M. Patch and C. R. Gwyther)

2005. “Pensions and Retirement,” in R Schultz, (ed.), Enclyclopedia of Aging, 4 th Edition, NY: Springer Publishing.

2003. “The Feminist Perspective of Ethical and Moral Decision-Making in Public Administration”, in J. Rabin (ed.), The Encyclopedia Public Administration and Public Policy, 454-456. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker.

2002. “Generational Ethics: Age Cohort and Healthcare Executives and Values.” HEC Forum 14 (2): 148-171. (with C. L. Jurkiewicz). 2002. “Making Privatizion Work: Utilizing a Scorecard Model of Human Resource Strategy.” Public Organization Review 2 (4) 365-385. (with C. L. Jurkiewicz)

2002. “Developing Gerontology Educators Through a Graduate Teaching Practicum.” Journal of Educational Gerontology 28 (1): 45-57. (with J. R. Peacock, D. Shenk and M. Chapin)

2001. “Mentoring Between and within “Generations” of Gerontology Students, Implementation of a Service-Learning Model.” Geriatrics and Gerontology Education 22 (2 ): 1-14. (with J. R. Peacock and D. Shenk.)

2001. “Developing a Research Question Through Grant Proposal Development.” Journal of Educational Gerontology 27 (7) : 569-581.

2001. “Approaches to Teaching about Reasearch in Gerontology: Introduction to a Special Issue.“Journal of Educational Gerontology 27 (7): 533-535. (with D. Shenk)

2001. “Incorporating Field Sites into Service-Learning as Collaborative Partners.” Journal of Educational Gerontology, 27 (1):23-35. (with J. R. Peacock and D. Shenk)

2000. “A Reason to Rise Each Morning: The Meaning of Volunteerism in the Lives of Older Adults.” Generations 23(4) : 45-50.

1999. “Strategies for Delivering Services to Minority Elders,” in Teaching about Aging: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 3 rd edition. Dena Shenk and Jay Sokolovsky (eds.), 398-400. Association of Anthropology and Gerontology and Association of Gerontology in Higher Education.

1997. “The Elderly and Health Politics ‘The Coming of Age of Aging’,” in T. J. Litman and L. S.Robins(eds), Health, Politics and Policy, 3rd edition, 323-348. New York: Delmar. (with W.P. Brandon)

Selected Technical Reports and Reviews

 2005. “Maggie Growls,” The Gerontologist 45(4):565-566.

2004. “ Reflections on the Role of the Humanities to the Field of Ageing,” Generations Review (with D. Sheets).

2004. “Better Outcomes for Clients in a Retirement Community Setting,” Geriatric Care Management Journal, (with K. Knutson).

2002. Effective Practices in Capacity Building: Lessons from Carolinas Leadership and Nonprofit Management Program. Charlotte, NC: Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation.

2001. “Mentoring Between the Generations of UNC-Charlotte Gerontology Students,” in J. M. McCrea, A. Nichols and S. Newman, Eds., Intergenerational Service-Learning in Gerontology: A Compendium, Volume II, 63-71. Pittsburgh, PA: Generations Together, University of Pittsburgh

1995. Families and Eldercare. Raleigh, NC: NC Department of Human Resources.

1995. “Interpreting the Aging Self: Personal Journals of Later Life,” Educational Gerontology 21(6): 633-634.

1994. “Sex and The Single Senior.” Creative Retirement, 2 (March).

1988. State Resources to Enable Development of Community Nonprofit Skilled Nursing Facilities,Report for ACR 56 (1987). Sacramento, CA: Assembly Office of Research.

Selected Professional Service

Managing Editor, Journal of Aging and Humanities (affiliated with the Gerontological Society of America), 2005 - .

Member of Editoral Board, CSA Journal, 2004 - .

Co-Chair, Academic Program Committee, 2005 - , Association of Gerontology in Higher Education.

Past-Chair, Humanities & Arts Committee, 2004 – 05, Gerontological Societ yof America .

Member, Task Force on Organizational Technology and Computers, 2002 - , Gerontological Society of America .