Miami University

Christopher Wellin, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Gerontology; Scripps Research Fellow; Black World Studies Program Affiliate. wellincr@muohio.edu Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Post Doctoral Fellowships, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, University of California, San Francisco; Center for Working Families, A Sloan Foundation Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University;
M.A., Sociology, Northwestern University;
B.A., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

Research Interests:

Sociology of work; cognitive illness and caregiving; alternative housing arrangements; ethnography/field methods.

Selected Publications:

Jaffe, D. and C. Wellin (Forthcoming). June's Troubled Transition: Adjustment to Residential Care for Older Adults with Dementia. Journal of Long Term Home Health Care.

Wellin, C. & C. S. Kart (2008). Enhancing the Performance of Local Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs in Ohio: Chartbook. Oxford, OH: Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University.

Wellin, C. (2008). Telling Tales Out of School: Dilemmas of Race and Inclusiveness in the Liberal Academy. The American Behavioral Scientist, 51, 686-709.

Wellin, C. (2007). Paid Care-giving for Older Adults with Serious or Chronic Illness: Ethnographic Perspectives and Evidence, Paper commissioned for a workshop organized by the National Academies Center for Education on Research Evidence Related to Future Skill Demands. Panel on Skill Demands in Growing Service Sector Jobs. Washington, D.C. May 31-June 1, 2007.

Wellin, C. (2007). Narrative Interviewing: Process and Benefits in Teaching About Aging and the Life Course. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol. 28, no. 1, 79-99.

Estes, C.L., Goldberg, S., Wellin, C., Linkins, K.W., Shostak, S., & Beard, R.L. (2006). Implications of Welfare Reform on the Elderly: A Case Study of Provider, Advocate, and Consumer Perspectives. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol. 18, no. 1, 41-63.

Wellin, C. (2006). Scrutinizing Familial Care in Consumer-Directed Long-Term Care Programs: Implications for Theory and Research. Pp.195-220 in S. Kunkel and V. Wellin (Eds.) Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care. New York: Springer.

Estes, C.L., C. Wellin , D.D. Ogawa, & T.A. Weitz. (2006). History of Health Care Policy For the Elderly. Pp. 490-496 in R. Schulz (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Aging (4th Ed.). New York: Springer.

Wellin, C. & Jaffe, D. J. (2004) In Search of "Personal Care": Challenges to Identity Support in Residential Care for Elders with Cognitive Illness. Journal of Aging Studies, vol. 18, no.3, (August): 275-295.

Wellin, C.R.. Book review, (2003) "The Elusive Quest: Accountability in Hospitals," by Carolyn L. Wiener, in Qualitative Sociology, vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring): 131-135.

Wellin, C.R.. Book review, (2003) "Caring and Doing for Others" (Edited by Alice Rossi), in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 32, no. 1 (January): 32-34.

Wellin, C.R. & Jaffe, D.J. (2002). “Clock Time vs. Story Time: Narrative Dimensions of Care for the Fragile Self”. Working paper series, Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley.

Wellin, C.R. & Estes, C.L. (2001). Health Policy Analysis. In E.F. Borgatta & M.L. Borgatta (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd Ed.). New York: Macmillan.

Wellin, C. R. & G.A. Fine. Ethnography as Work (2001): Career Socialization, Settings, and Problems. Pp.323-338 in P. Atkinson, et. al. (Eds.) Handbook of Ethnography. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.

Wellin, C. R.. (1999) Understanding Technicians' (and others') Work: The Key to Understanding is Practice. Review essay, Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring): 73-82.