Faculty & Staff
Kristin Barker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
Phone: 541-737-5375
Fax: 541-737-5372
E-mail: Kristin.Barker@oregonstate.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology of Health and Medicine
- Sociological Theory
- Professions
- Gender and Feminist Theory
- Historical and Textual Methods
Current Projects:
- "The Sociological Study of Illness-Based Electronic Support Groups (ESGs)."
- "Mindfulness: The Self and Healing in Late-Modernity."
- "Virtual Communities and Contested Chronic Illness: An Exploration in Electronic Ethnography."
Brief Vita
Education:
- Ph.D. - Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993
- M.S. - Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1987
- B.S. - Sociology and Gerontology, Western Michigan University 1985
Recent Publications:
- Barker, Kristin. 2005. The Fibromyalgia Story: Biomedical Authority and Women's Worlds of Pain. Temple University Press.
- Barker, Kristin. 2003. "Birthing and Bureaucratic Women: 'Needs Talk' and the Definitional Legacy of the Sheppard-Towner Act." Feminist Studies 29(2): 333-355.
- Barker, Kristin. 2002. "Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome." Social Problems 49(3):279-300.
- Barker, Kristin. 1998. "A Ship upon a Stormy Sea: The Medicalization of Pregnancy." Social Science and Medicine 47(8):1067-1076.
- Barker, Kristin. 1998. "Women Physicians and the Gendered System of Professions: An Analysis of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921." Work and Occupations 25(2):229-255.
- Barker, Kristin. 1997. "Federal Maternal Policy and Gender Politics: Comparative Insights." Review Essay, Journal of Women's History 9(2):183-191.
Recent Grants
- Barker, Kristin. "Virtual Communities and Contested Chronic Illness: An Exploration in Electronic Ethnography." Center for the Humanities Fellowship.
- Barker, Kristin. "Electronic Self-Help and Mutual-Help Resources and Contested Chronic Illness: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome." Faculty Release Time (FRT) Award, Oregon State University, Fall Term 2004.
- Barker, Kristin. "Mindfulness: The Self and Healing in Late-Modernity." College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, Oregon State University, Spring Term 2004.
