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Jill Quadagno

Jill Quadagno


Contact Information:

Office: Pepper Center 224
Phone: 644-8827
Fax: 644-2304
Email: jquadagno@fsu.edu

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Sociology of Aging
  • Comparative Historical Sociology
  • Political Sociology
  • Long Term Care
  • Health Policy

Teaching:

  • Political Sociology
  • Comparative Historical Sociology
  • Aging

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge University, England, 1979.
  • University of Kansas, 1973-1976, Ph.D. in Sociology
  • University of California - Berkeley, 1964-1966, M.A. in Sociology
  • Pennsylvania State University, 1960-1964 B.A. in Sociology, with Distinction

Selected Papers and Publications:

Books:

  • Quadagno, Jill. 2011. Aging and the Life Course. McGraw Hill. (5th edition).

Articles and Chapters:

  • Quadagno, Jill and Joellen Pederson. 2012. “Has Support for Social Security Declined? Attitudes toward the Public Pension in the United States, 2000 and 2010?” International Journal of Social Welfare. In press.
  • Pederson, Joellen and Jill Quadagno, 2011. “The Three Pillar Approach to Pension Reform: Pathways to Welfare State Restructuring.” In Global Dynamics of Aging, edited by Sheying Chen and Jason Powell, Nova Science Publishers.
  • Quadagno, Jill. 2011. “Interest Group Influence on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act of 2010: Winners and Losers in the Health Care Reform Debate.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (3): 449-454.
  • Rote, Sunshine and Jill Quadagno. 2011. “Depression and Alcohol Dependence among Welfare Recipients: Before and After the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996.” Social Service Review (June):229-245.
  • Quadagno, Jill, Ben Lenox Kail and K. Russell Sheka. 2011. “Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age. Pp. 321-332 in Handbook of the Sociology of Aging, Rick Settersten and Jacqueline Angel, Eds. Springer.
  • Quadagno, Jill and J. Brandon McKelvey. 2010. “The Consumer-Directed Health Care Movement.” Pp. 50-63 in Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health, Mayer Zald, Sandra R. Levitsky and Jane Banaszak-Holl, Eds. Oxford University Press.
  • Quadagno, Jill. 2010. “Institutions, Interests and Ideology: An Agenda for the Sociology of Health Care Reform.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51 (June): 125-136.

Honors and Awards:

  • Elected Member of Phi Kappa Phi, 2011.
  • Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine, 2010.
  • Leo G. Reeder Award, for Distinguished Contribution, Section on Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2009.
  • Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award for “Why the US Has No National Health Insurance,” Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2005.
  • Awards for One Nation, Uninsured:
    • Best Seller in Medicine, 2005-06, YBP Library Services.
    • Finalist, Distinguished Book Award, Section on Political Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2006.
  • Speaker on panel, “Getting to Universal Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities” annual Issues Conference for Democratic Senators, invited by Senator Harry Reid, 2006.
  • Invited Member, National Advisory Council on Seniors, Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, 2007-08.

Vitae

Curriculum Vitae