Dr. Deanna Chang

Office Location:

112G McElhaney Hall

 

Phone Number:

724-357-6247

Email Address:

deanna@iup.edu

 

 

Education:

  Ph.D. Sociology,  University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hon., HI 1996

 

 

Teaching Interests:

 

  •  Medical Sociology                              

  •  Criminology                   

  •  Deviance                      

  •  Aging     

  •  Victimology/ Sexual Assault and Rape

  •  Organizational Analysis     

  •  Family

  •  Drugs and Alcohol

 

Research Interests:

 

Domestic violence

 

  Stress and coping

 

  Victimization and institutional responses

 

Publications:

The Conversion of a Violent Self. 1996 UMI Ann Arbor, MI.

 

  "Self-saving Battered Women" Values Newsletter Spring, 1997 Vol. 4 (2).

 

 

"An Autobiographical Reconstruction of a Self-transformation As an ASA Minority Fellow and Honors Student" American Sociological Association Minority Affairs Newsletter Fall, 1992 Vol. 1 (5).

 

  "A Domestic Violence Shelter: A Symbolic Bureaucracy" Social Process in Hawaii Vol. 34. 1992.

 

 

"An Abused Spouse's Self-Saving Process: A Theory of Identity Transformation" Sociological Perspectives Vol. 32 (2) 1990.

 

 

"Obesity as a Stigmatized Condition" in Self Destructive Behavior and Disvalued Identity by Charles E. Faupel and Paul M. Roman (eds.) Vol. 4. 2000.

 

  "Untying the Love that Binds" in D. Chang (ed.) Sociology. Boston: McGraw-Hill-Primus 2000. Pp. 57-89.

Working Papers:

  "Battered Women as Self-savers: a Theory of Self Change"

 

  "Childhood Stressors and the Battered Woman: Biographical Reconstruction's Revisited"

Honors Awards:


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