Faculty & Research

Education:

• Ed.D. at University of Tennessee, 1973
• MS/MA at University of Oregon, 1970
• B.A. at University of Vermont, 1961
• RN at Merritt College, 1968

Contact Information:

(812) 855-9581

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Poplars Building, Room 615

Background:

• Robert G.Kirk, Distinguished Doctoral Alumni Award, 1997
• HPER Distinguished Researcher Award, 2002
• Director: BOOZE AND YOUS Alcohol Education Program. 1974-77

Research

CURRENT: History of health reform cycles; spiritual health; progressive era health reformers;

PAST: determinents of behaviors using university students drinking patterns and other health behaviors

Publications:

• The Eugenics Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005
• The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement, Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2003
• Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform, Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2000,2001
• CONTROVERSIES IN THE ADDICTION FIELD (Editor), Kendal-Hunt: Dubuque, Iowa, 1990
• WOMEN: ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS (Editor), Kendal-Hunt, 1989; Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Or, 2006
• ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS: SELF RESPONSIBILITY, Tichenor Press: Bloomington, IN, 1987
• "The effect of religion and religiosity on drug use among a selected sample of post secondary students in Scotland," Addiction Research 7, no. 2 (1999):149-170, (co-author: Kenneth Mullen)
• "Cycles of social reform:Is the current anti-alcohol movement cresting?" Journal Studies on alcohol 58, no. 2 (1997):223-224.
• "Women, alcohol, and health:A drink a day keeps the heart attack away" Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 9:217-220, 1996.
• Do traditional western European drinking practices have origins in antiquity ? " Addiction Research 2, no. 3 (December 1995): 227-239.
• The assoication of alcohol consumption with self-reported illness in university students." Psychological Reports 76 (1995):727-736. (Co-author M. Aldo-Benson).
• "Family Background of Alcohol Abuse: An Unexpected Finding," Journal of Studies Alcohol 51, no. 6 (1990): 542-547

Courses Recently Taught:

• Research Methods
• Nature of Addictive Behaviors
• Epidemiology and Human Disease
• Introduction to Health Counseling