Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Political Economy

Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Political Economy

6/4/2008

CURRICULUM VITAE

RICHARD K. SCOTCH

Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Political Economy

School of Social Sciences

The University of Texas at Dallas

Office Address: P.O. Box 830688 MS GR3.1, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688

Office Phone: 972-883-2922 Fax: 972-883-6297 Email:

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Harvard University 1982

M.A. Department of Sociology, Harvard University 1975

B.A. (Honors) University of Chicago (Major: Sociology) 1973

POSITIONS HELD

1983 - present Professor (2000-present)

Associate Professor (1989 - 2000)

Assistant Professor (1983-1989)

2005 - 2007 Director, Public Policy, and Political Economy program

2003 - 2007 Coordinator, Graduate Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management

2000 - present Coordinator, Graduate Certificate Program in Evaluation Research

1994 – present Coordinator, Programs in Sociology

1989 - 1993 Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences (formerly Social Sciences)

University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX

1982 - 1983 AAAS Congressional Science Fellow

Sponsored by Society for Research in Child Development

Office of Congressman Paul Simon and Subcommittee on

Post-Secondary Education

U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, DC

Spring 1982 Visiting Instructor

Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary

Williamsburg, VA

Spring 1980 Visiting Instructor

Department of Sociology, University of Richmond

Richmond, VA

1978 - 1979 Program Analyst

Monitoring and Evaluation Section, Virginia Division for Children

Richmond, VA


POSITIONS HELD (continued)

Summer 1976 Social Science Analyst

Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Rockville, MD

1975 - 1976 Research Assistant

Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management,

Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Selected Other Professional Positions

Senior Associate, National School Reform, Community Training and Assistance Center, Boston, MA. 2007-present.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, 2006-present

Adjunct Professor, Division of Health Care Education and Research, Department of Health

Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center at Dallas, 2004- present

Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Gallaudet University Press) 2006-present

Editorial Board, Research in Social Science and Disability, 1998-present

Associate Editor, Evaluation Review, 1991-present

Editorial Board, Disability Studies Quarterly, 1995-present

Editorial Board, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 1988-present

Section Committee member, 2008 conference on “Psychiatry & Freedom” of the International Network of Philosophy & Psychiatry

International Advisory Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Disability (Sage), 2002-04

Member, Institutional Review Board, American Foundation for the Blind, 2001-2008

Member, Advisory Board, Disability History [Online] Museum, 1994-present

President, Society for Disability Studies, 1994-1995, Program Chair, 1997;

Executive Officer, 1997-1998; Board of Directors, 1993-1996

Member, Advisory Committee on Disability Studies in the Twenty-First Century, National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 1995

Member, Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities, American Sociological Association, 1988-1991; Chair, 1991

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Disability Protests: Contentious Politics 1970 - 1999 (with Sharon Barnartt). Gallaudet University Press, 2001.

From Good Will to Civil Rights:Transforming Federal Disability Policy. Temple University Press, 1984. Second edition, with a new epilogue by the author, 2001. Japanese translation by Eiji Takemae et al. Published in The Journal of Tokyo Keizai University. 1994 - 1995; republished by Akashi Shoten (Tokyo) with a new preface by the author, 2000.

PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Articles

AParadigms of American Social Research on Disability: What's New?@ Disability Studies Quarterly. 22:2 Spring 2002.

"Disability and Institutional Change: A Human Variation Perspective on Overcoming Oppression" Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 12:2 Fall 2001 (With Kay Schriner)

AThe Gender Analogy in the Disability Discrimination Literature@ Ohio State Law Journal 62:1 2001. (With Pam Brandwein)

ADisability Policy: An Eclectic Overview.@ Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Spring 2000.

AThe Ryan White Act in Dallas." Policy Studies Journal. 28: 3 March 2000. (with G.S. Thielemann and Wolfgang Bielefeld)

AModels of Disability and the Response to the Americans with Disabilities Act.@ Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 21:1 February 2000.

AThe Decision-Making Context and Its Impact on Local Human Service Nonprofits@ Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 9:1 September 1998 (with Wolfgang Bielefeld)

ADisability as Human Variation: Implications for Policy@ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science January 1997 (with Kay Schriner)

"Economic Discourse and the Cost of Disability" Disability Studies Quarterly 16:4 Fall 1996

"Institutionalizing AIDS: Policy, Institutional Culture, and the Response to the HIV Epidemic in Dallas" Research in Social Policy Volume 4 1996 (with Wolfgang Bielefeld)

"Rethinking 'Progressive' School Reform: Organizational Dynamics and Educational Change" American Journal of Education 104:2 1996. (with David Plank and Janet Gamble)

"National Mandates and Local Nonprofits: the Shaping of a Local Service Delivery System for HIV/AIDS Services" Policy Studies Review Spring/Summer 1995 (with Wolfgang Bielefeld and G.S. Thielemann)

"Understanding Disability Policy: Varieties of Analysis." Policy Studies Journal 22:1 1994.

"Commentary on Harlan Hahn's 'The Political Implications of Disability Definitions and Data.'" Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 4:2 1993.

"Children, Disability, and Public Policy." Disability Studies Quarterly. 13:4 Fall 1993.

"Universal or Targeted Policies? Disability Policy Advocacy After ADA." Disability Studies Quarterly. 11:3 1991.


PUBLICATIONS (continued)

"One Comprehensive System? An Historical Perspective on Federal Disability Policy." Journal of Disability Policy Studies. I:3 1990 (with Edward Berkowitz)

"The Politics of Disability Statistics." Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer 1990.

"Politics and Policy in the History of the Disability Rights Movement." Milbank Quarterly. 67, Supp. 2, Pt. 2, 1989.

"Disability as the Basis for a Social Movement." Journal of Social Issues. 44:1 1988.

"Rethinking the War on Poverty: The Ideology of Social Welfare Reform." Western Political Quarterly. 41:1 1988 (with Edward J. Harpham)

"Federal Statistical Programs: The Erosion of Data for Decision_Making." Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. IV:1 1984 (with Paul Simon)

"Medicaid and Children: Some Recent Lessons and Reasonable Next Steps." Public Policy. 26:1 1978. (with John A. Butler)

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Entries on “ADAPT”; “Department of Veterans Affairs”; “Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975 “; “Disabled in Action”; “Empowerment” (with James Charlton); “Judith Heumann”; “Law and Policy”; “Mary Switzer”; “Medicaid,”; “Medicare”; ”Mills v. Board of Education”; “Models of Disability”; “NIDRR”; “Paralyzed Veterans of America”; “PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”; “Poverty”; “Randolph-Sheppard Act of 1936”; “Section 504”; “Smith-Fess Act of 1920”; “Supplemental Security Income”; “Vocational Rehabilitation Act”; “Voting” (with Brenda McCoy and Kay Schriner); “Wade Blank:” in Susan Burch (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Gallaudet University Press. Forthcoming in 2009.

AModels of Disability and the Response to the Americans with Disabilities Act” in Disability: The Social, Political, and Ethical Debate, Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum, and S. Kay Toombs (eds.). Prometheus Books, 2008.

“Rationalization and the Grass Roots: The Evolution of a Local HIV/AIDS Service System” in Strategies of Community Intervention (7th edition), Jack Rothman ed., Eddie Bowers Publishing Company. 2008. (With Wolfgang Bielefeld and Alicia Schortgen)

AThe ADA and the Meaning of Disability@ in Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights, Linda Hamilton Krieger, (ed.). University of Michigan Press, 2003 (With Kay Schriner)

“National Mandates and Local Nonprofits: Shaping a Local Delivery System of HIV/AIDS Services” in Strategies of Community Intervention (6th edition), Jack Rothman, John L. Ehrlich, & John E. Tropman eds. F.E.Peacock Publishers, Inc., 2001. (With Wolfgang Bielefeld and G.S. Thielemann. Reprinted from Policy Studies Review, 1995)


PUBLICATIONS (continued)

ADisability Politics@ in Joel Krieger (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, 2001 (With Adrienne Asch)

AAdvocacy and Political Action.@ in Handbook of Disability Studies, Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury (eds.). Sage Publications, Inc., 2001 (With Sharon Barnartt and Kay Schriner)

AAmerican Disability Policy in the Twentieth Century@ in Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky (eds.) The New Disability History: American Perspectives. NYU Press, 2001.

"Making Change: The ADA as an Instrument of Social Reform" in Leslie Francis and Anita Silvers (eds.), Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions, Routledge. 2000.

"Disability" in Dana Dunn and David V. Waller (eds.) Analyzing Social Problems: Essays and Exercises Prentice Hall, 1997. Reprinted in ANNUAL EDITIONS: Social Problems, Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Guilford, CT, 2000.

"The Rights of Persons with Disabilities" in The Encyclopedia of the Future. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 1996.

ADisability Policy" in Opportunity and Independence: Meeting the Needs of New Yorkers With Disabilities, Regents Select Commission on Disability, Albany, NY, 1993.

ADisability as a Social Movement: Advocacy and the Politics of Definition." In Mark Nagler (ed.) Perspectives on Disability. Health Markets Research, Palo Alto CA, 1991.

"Ideologies of Welfare Reform." In Richard Coughlin (editor) Reforming Welfare. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1989 (with Edward J. Harpham).

"Economic Discourse, Policy Analysis, and the Problem of the Political." In Edward Portis and Michael Levy (editors) Handbook of Political Theory and Policy Science. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1988 (with Edward J. Harpham).

Book Reviews

Ruth Colker, The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Social History of Medicine. 2006. (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkl051)

Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality in Social Science Journal 41:3 Fall 2004.

Ruth O'Brien, Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Actin Law & Politics Book Review 14: 7 July 2004.

Mary Johnson & Barrett Shaw, (editors). To Ride the Public's Buses: The Fight that Built a Movement in H_NET List for the History of Disabilities [. January 2003.


PUBLICATIONS (continued) – Book Reviews

J. Gerald Young and Pierre Ferrari (editors). Designing Mental Health Services and Systems for Children and Adolescents: A Shrewd Investment in Disability Studies Quarterly. Fall 2001.

James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine. Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless in Disability Studies Quarterly. Fall 2000.

Lynn Schlesinger and Diane E. Taub (editors), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology of Disabilities in Teaching Sociology. October 1999.

Kristine L. Mika, Program Outcome Evaluation: A Step-by-Step Handbook in Disability Studies Quarterly. Spring 1999.

C. Edwin Vaughn, Social and Cultural Perspectives on Blindness: Barriers to Community Integration in Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. February 1999.

Madeleine Adamson, Politics Unusual in Disability Studies Quarterly. Winter 1999

Lisa Ruby Basara and Michael Montagne, Searching for Magic Bullets: Orphan Drugs, Consumer Activism, and Pharamceutical Development in Disability Studies Quarterly. Fall 1998.

Thomas E. Dinero (editor). Selected Practical Problems in Health and Social Research in Disability Studies Quarterly. Fall 1998.

Fred Pelka, The ABC-CLIO Companion to The Disability Rights Movement in Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer 1998.

Mark Kelman and Gillian Lester, Jumping the Queue: An Inquiry into the Legal treatment of Students with Learning Disabilities in Law and Politics Book Review. Summer 1998

Marvin D. Feit and Stanley F. Battle (editors) Health and Social Policy in Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer 1997

Evangelos M. Falaris, Charles R. Link, and Michael E. Staten, Causes of Litigation in Workers Compensation Programs in Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer 1996

John J. DiIulio, Jr. and Richard Nathan (editors), Making Health Reform Work: The View from the States in Disability Studies Quarterly. Winter 1996

Joseph P. Shapiro, No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement in Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Summer 1995.

Gary Albrecht, The Rehabilitation Business in Disability Studies Quarterly. Summer 1994.

Paul C. Higgins, Making Disability in Contemporary Sociology. January 1994.

Marque-Luisa Miringhoff, The Social Costs of Genetic Welfare in Contemporary Sociology. January 1993.


PUBLICATIONS (continued) - Book Reviews

Stephen L. Percy, Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy in Journal of Politics. May 1992.

Diane Driedger, The Last Civil Rights Movement in Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Fall 1990.

Edward D. Berkowitz, Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped in International Rehabilitation Review, XXXIX:1 June, 1988.

Alan Gartner and Tom Joe (editors), Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images in Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall, 1987.

Mary Jo Deegan and Nancy A. Brooks (editors), Women and Disability:The Double Handicap in Social Forces 65:1 September 1986.

Policy/Evaluation/Needs Assessment Reports

The Costs and Benefits of an Indigent Defendant Verification Program, Texas Indigent Defense Task Force, Austin TX 2007 (with Charles McConnel)

Survey of Parents, Austin (TX) Independent School District, Strategic Compensation Initiative 2007. Community Training and Assistance Center, Boston MA.

Technical Report: Collin County Task Force on Indigent Health Care. McKinney, Texas 2006. (with Brenda McCoy and Charles McConnel)

Evaluation of Central Dallas Ministries. A report by members of a graduate student policy research workshop on nonprofit evaluation, School of Social Sciences, UT-Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 2003.

Maternal and Infant Health in North Texas: 1999 Needs Assessment, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, North Texas Chapter, Dallas, Texas, 2000.

Evaluation of Dallas Healthy Start Initiative, Dallas Healthy Start, Dallas, TX. 1997.

Evaluation of Dallas Site: AmeriCorps Hand-in Hand Program. North Texas March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Dallas, TX. 1996.

Ellis County Health Care Needs Assessment, Waxahachie Community Health Clinic, Waxahachie, TX, 1995. (with Janet L. Gamble)

Community Needs Assessment: Dallas County, 1995, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Dallas, TX, 1995. (with Wolfgang Bielefeld and Paul Waddell)

HIV Comprehensive Service Plan for the Dallas Eligible Metropolitan Area, Dallas HIV Health Services Planning Council, Dallas, Texas, 1994. (with Veronica Hartwell and G.S. Thielemann)

Reconnaissance Paper on Disability Policy. Regents Select Commission on Disability, Albany, NY, 1992.


PUBLICATIONS (continued)

The Impact of Civil Rights Legislation for Americans with Work Disabilities. National Council on Disability. Washington, 1990.

Disability Policies and Disability Politics: A Perspective from Great Britain. World Rehabilitation Fund, New York, 1987.

Youth and Families in Virginia:Assessing Their Needs: Planning District #7. Virginia Division for Children, Richmond, 1979.