Adina Nack, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of Sociology, 2003

Email: nack@callutheran.edu
Phone: (805) 493-3438
Office: G Building, Room 17 - map
Website: http://www.adinanack.com

Profile

An associate professor of sociology, Dr. Adina Nack was the Founding Director of CLU’s Center for Equality & Justice; she has also served as the Director of CLU's Gender & Women's Studies Program and Chair of the Sociology Department. Nack received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado and joined CLU in 2003, after having been faculty at the University of Maine.

She is a medical sociologist whose research has focused on sexual health, social psychology, social inequality, gender, and sexuality. An award-winning teacher, she has also won national research awards, published articles on the stigma of sexually transmitted diseases, and authored a book on women living with genital herpes and HPV infections published by Temple University Press in June 2008.

A proponent of community-based action research, Nack was a Co-Principal Investigator for Ventura County’s two recent studies of Latinos/as receiving HIV/AIDS services. The first study inspired the 2006 countywide HIV & Latinos: A Leadership Summit which led to the creation of the Latino HIV Taskforce. In addition to her work with VCPH, she has also served as a research consultant for the ELCA Sexuality Studies Taskforce, Western Institute of Hearing, United Women's Leadership Council, and AIDS Desk (Chennai, India).

A voting member of the HIV/AIDS Coalition of Ventura County since 2003, Nack has played the lead role in collaborating with community organizations to organize Ventura County’s annual World AIDS Day events.

Research, Teaching, and Community Service Awards:
2009 Writers Workshop for Feminist Scholars -- Scholarship granted by Ms. Magazine
2009 Diversity Professor of the Year Award -- Granted by California Lutheran University Student Body
2008 Ventura County Community Member of the Year Award – Granted by Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties
2006 Mark Vartanian AIDS Advocacy Award - Granted by Ventura County Rainbow Alliance
2004 Professor of the Year Award - Granted by California Lutheran University Student Body
2001 Herbert Blumer Award - Granted by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Publications:
Books, Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Essays
2008. “From the Patient’s Point of View: Practitioner Interaction Styles in the Treatment of Women with Chronic STDs” Pp. 95-122 in Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy. Edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. WA, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
2008. Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Temple University Press.
2007. “A Search for Truth and a Call for Freedom.” CLU Magazine (Summer): 21.
2006. “Sexuality over the Lifespan: Social Trends Pose Moral Dilemmas for Communities of Faith.” Intersections (Spring): 16-20.
2005. “A Visit from the GLBT Fairy Godmother.” in the ASA Teaching Guide: Teaching Sociological Concepts and the Sociology of Gender. Edited by Marybeth C. Stalp and Julie Childers. Washington, D.C.: ASA Teaching Resources Center.
2002. “Bad Girls and Fallen Women: Chronic STD Diagnoses as Gateways to Tribal Stigma.” Symbolic Interaction 25(4): 463-485. [Reprinted in two anthologies]
2002. “Empathy as a Path to Critical Thinking: A Visit from the GLBT Fairy Godmother.” SWS Network News: The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society 19 (4):9-11.
2000. “Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs.” Deviant Behavior (21): 95-121. [Reprinted in 10 anthologies]
2000. “Out of the Stirrups and into Stigma: Creating a Sociology of STDs.” SWS Network News: The Newsletter of Sociologists for Women in Society 18(2):8-9.
Book Reviews
2007. Review. Gender, Race, Class, & Health: Intersectional Approaches by Amy J. Schulz and Leith Mullings. Gender & Society 21 (2):297-8.
2001. Review. Ideologies of Breast Cancer: Feminist Perspectives edited by Laura K. Potts. Contemporary Sociology 30(3):300-01.
Research/Policy Reports
2008. Latinas Who Access HIV/AIDS Services in Ventura County: Report to HIV/AIDS Service Providers & Educators (co-authored with Lyn Gesch, Ph.D.)
2007. Latino Men Who Access HIV/AIDS Services in Ventura County: Report to HIV/AIDS Service Providers (co-authored with Lyn Gesch, Ph.D.)
Forthcoming Publications
2010. “Mixing Morality with Medicine” in Speaking of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings. Edited by J. Kenneth Davidson, Nelwyn B. Moore, and Terri D. Fisher. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.