VISITING FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
EMERITUS FACULTY
Melissa Gosdin
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of North Texas, 2010
Contact Information:
Phone: (740) 593-1372
Office: Bentley Annex 105
E-mail: gosdin@ohio.edu
Areas of Specialization:
Medical Sociology, Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, Social Justice and Qualitative Research Methodologies
Courses Taught:
Soc 1000: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 2100: Social Psychology
Soc 2200: Introduction to the Family
Soc 3000: Development of Sociological Theory
Soc 3290: Race & Ethnic Relations in the US
Soc 3310: Classes & Inequality
Selected Publications:
Cready, C.M.; Yeatts, D.E.; Gosdin, M.; Potts, H.F. “Empowered Nurse Aide Teams: Impacts on Job Performance on Attitudes.” Gerontological Nursing.
Henry, Doug; McClellen, Danna; Rosenthal, Leon; Dedrick, David; Gosdin, Melissa. “Is Sleep really for sissies? Understanding the role of work in insomnia in the US.” Social Science & Medicine.
Gosdin, Melissa and Lawson, Erma. “Postpartum Depression is just an Excuse. Mexican American Adolescent Mothers’ Perceptions of Postpartum Depression.” Chapter in Defective Bodies: The Social Construction of Health Disparities-A Qualitative Medical Sociology Reader.
Selected Presentations:
Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities 13th Annual Meeting, Brown University (March 2010). “The Socially Constructed Experiences of Self-Reported Depressed Mexican American Mothers: An Examination of Cultural Barriers to Mental Health Care.”
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2007). “Insomnia or Depression? A Stigmatized Identity. Melissa Gosdin, Doug Henry & Dana McClellen.”
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas (April 2006). “The Effects of Job Satisfaction on Empowerment in Long-Term Care Facilities: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a Mediating Effect.” Melissa Gosdin, Dale Yeatts, Cynthia Cready and Helen Potts.
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas (April 2006). “Left Unspoken?: An Analysis of Silencing in Focus Group Interviewing.” Lisa K. Zottarelli, Sherry Hayes, Amber Deane, Melissa Gosdin, Helen Potts and Basil Batineh.
Selected Poster Presentation:
“Everybody has it: Hispanic and Caucasian Adolescent Mothers’ views of Postpartum Depression.” Presented at the Society for Public Health Education 57th Annual Meeting in Boston, MA (2005).