Associate
Professor of Sociology
Department
of Anthropology and Sociology
office:
204B Ackerman
phone: (541) 962-3591
email: bgrigsby@eou.edu
office hours (Spring 2010): Tuesday (10:00 - 11:30 and 1:30 - 3:00) 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:
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);
- International development--property
rights, gender and social change in rural Africa
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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 420 classes work on these projects
(web link to Soc 315 hunger project, Soc
420 hunger project, havenfromhunger)
Representative
publications:
- Grigsby, W.J. Brega, A., Bennett, R., DeVore, P., Paulich, M., Talkington, S., Floersch, N., Barton Phoebe, Neal, S., Araya, T., Loker, J., Krohn, N., and Jim Grigsby. 2007. The slow pace of interactive video telemedicine adoption: The perspective of telemedicine program administrators on physician participation. Telemedicine and e-Health 13(6):645-56
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Grigsby,
W.J. 2004. The gendered nature of subsistence and its effect on customary
land tenure. Society and Natural Resources 17(3):207-22.
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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.
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Grigsby,
W.J. 2004. Report on U.S. Telemedicine Activity. Kingston,
NJ: Civic Research Institute.
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Grigsby,
W.J. 2002. Telehealth: An assessment of growth and distribution. Journal
of Rural Health Spring 18(2):348-58.
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Grigsby,
W.J. 2002. Subsistence and land tenure in the Sahel. Agriculture
and Human Values 19(2):1-14.
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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. 1999.
Report on Forensic Telemedicine Activity. Portland, OR: Association
of Telemedicine Service Providers. Available online at: http://www.atsp.org/survey/forensic/98FRreport.pdf.
- Grigsby, W.J. 2002.
Community vitality: Some conceptual considerations. For the Northeast
Regional Center for Rural Development. Available online at http://www.cas.nercrd.psu.edu/Publications/RDPAPERS/GrigsbyCommVitality.htm.
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Grigsby,
W.J. 1996. Women, descent, and tenure succession among the Bambara
in West Africa: A changing landscape. Human Organization 55(1):93-98
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Grigsby,
W.J., and J.E. Force. 1993. Where credit is due: Forests, women and
rural development. Journal of Forestry 91(6):29-34.
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