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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:

  • 2005. Quadagno, Jill. One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance. Oxford University Press.
  • 2008. Quadagno, Jill. Aging and the Life Course. McGraw Hill. (4th edition)

Articles and Chapters:

  • 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.
  • Quadagno, Jill. 2010. “The Rise of the Phoenix! Health Care Reform 2010.” States, Political Power and Societies 15 (2): 1-3.
  • Quadagno, Jill, Ben Lenox Kail and K. Russell Sheka. 2010. “Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age. Handbook of the Sociology of Aging, Rick Settersten and Jacqueline Angel, Eds. Springer.
  • Quadagno, Jill and Deana Rohlinger. 2010. “Religious Conservatives in U.S. Welfare State Politics.” Pp. 236-66 in The Western Welfare State and Its Religious Roots, Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow, Editors. Cambridge University Press.
  • Rohlinger, Deana and Jill Quadagno. 2009. “Framing Faith: Explaining Cooperation and Contention in the Conservative Christian Movement.” Social Movement Studies 8 (4): 341-358.
  • Street, Debra, Stephanie Burge and Jill Quadagno. 2009. “The Effects of Licensure Type on Policy and Practices in Florida Assisted Living Facilities.” The Gerontologist 49 (2):211-223.
  • Kail, Ben, Jill Quadagno and Marc Dixon. 2009. “Can States Lead the Way to Universal Coverage? The Effect of Health Care Reform on the Uninsured.” Social Science Quarterly 90 (5):1-20.
  • Kail, Ben Lennox, Jill Quadagno and Jennifer Reid Keene. 2009. "The Political Economy Perspective in Aging." Pp. 555-571 in Handbook of Theories of Aging, Vern Bengtson, Merril Silverstein and Norella Putney, Eds. Springer.
  • Quadagno, Jill and Brandon McKelvey. 2008. “The Transformation of American Health Insurance.” Pp. 10-28 in Health Care at Risk: Expert Perspectives on America's Ailing Health System -- and How to Heal It. Jacob Hacker, Ed. Columbia University Press.
  • Parham, Lori, Jill Quadagno and Jordan Brown. 2008. “Race, Politics and Social Policy.” Handbook of Social Policy, James Midgley and Michelle Livermore, Eds. Sage.
  • Street, Debra, Stephanie Burge, Jill Quadagno, and Anne Barrett. 2007. “The Salience of Social Relationships on Resident Wellbeing in Assisted Living.” Journal of Gerontology 62B (2):S129-134.
  • Quadagno, Jill. 2007. “Who Are the Deciders Now? The Legacy of C. Wright Mills.” Contemporary Sociology 36 (5):422-425.
  • Quadagno, Jill and Brandy Harris. 2007. “Aging and Health Policy.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer, Ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Quadagno, Jill. 2006. “Race for a Cure.” Boston Review, January 7, pp. 6-7.
  • Quadagno, Jill and Debra Street. 2006. “New Directions in U.S. Welfare State Policy: Minor Retrenchment or Major Transformation?” Research on Aging 28 (3): 1-14.
  • Rohlinger, Deana and Jill Quadagno. 2006. “Framing the Social Security Debate.” Pp. 123-136 in Public Sociologies, Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith, Editors. Rowman and Littlefield.

Honors and Awards:

  • 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.

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