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Bill Grigsby's

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Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
office: 204B Ackerman
phone: (541) 962-3591 email: bgrigsby@eou.edu
office hours (Fall 2007): Tues (1:00-2:00); Wed (2:30-3:30); Thur (11:00-12:00) or by appointment

I teach courses in sociology, social welfare, with emphases on the international, environment, technology, media and politics

Graduate education:

M.S. in Forest Resources, University of Idaho, 1990
PhD in Sociology, Washington State University, 1995

Courses offered:

Soc 205 Social Problems (alternate terms with Soc 204)	Soc 315 Social Welfare (every Fall)
Soc 460 Women in developing countries (also as DDE)	Soc 420 Social Welfare Practices (every Winter)
Soc 370 Society and Environment (also as DDE)	Soc 344 Selling the news (DDE weekend)
Soc 345 Media, Politics and Propaganda	Soc 454 Social theory (Fall, odd years)
Soc 409 (practicum for social welfare emphasis)	SSCI 110 Media links
Soc 407 Capstone symposium, supervised by Kathleen Dahl, Rosemary Powers and myself

Research interests:

Society and environment--natural resource issues, property rights, gender, both internationally and domestically;

Society and technology--rural institutions and the development of information technology (w/ emphasis on health care);

Politics and media--media manipulation, deception, propaganda, power, politics, news media.

Social welfare--of particular interest are issues related to local hunger and relief efforts--Soc 315 and 420 classes work on these projects (web link to Soc 315 hunger project, Soc 420 hunger project, havenfromhunger)

Representative publications:

Grigsby, W.J. 2004. The gendered nature of subsistence and its effect on customary land tenure. Society and Natural Resources 17(3):207-22.

Grigsby, W.J., S.F. Goetz. 2004. Telehealth: What Promise Does It Hold for Rural Areas? Pp 237-50 In N. Glascow, L. Morton and N. Johnson (eds) Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames, IA: Blackwell Press.

Grigsby, W.J. 2004. Report on U.S. Telemedicine Activity. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.

Grigsby, W.J. 2002. Telehealth: An assessment of growth and distribution. Journal of Rural Health Spring 18(2):348-58.

Grigsby, W.J. 2002. Subsistence and land tenure in the Sahel. Agriculture and Human Values 19(2):1-14.

Grigsby, W.J., Shuffstall, B., and S. Goetz. 2002. Community information networks. In S.Goetz and B. DeYoung (eds) Information Technology and Extension Programming: A Web Book. State College, PA: Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. Available online at http://www.cas.nercrd.psu.edu/Publications/Webbook/wbChapterGrigsbyCIN.htm.

Grigsby, W.J. and N. Brown. 2002. A survey of teledermatology in the United States. In R. Wootton and A. Oakley (eds) Teledermatology. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press.

Grigsby, W.J. 1996. Women, descent, and tenure succession among the Bambara in West Africa: A changing landscape. Human Organization 55(1):93-98

Grigsby, W.J., and J.E. Force. 1993. Where credit is due: Forests, women and rural development. Journal of Forestry 91(6):29-34.