Carol Parker Walsh, J.D., Ph.D.
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Assistant
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"My interest and passion center around the emotional, psychological, and professional well-being of Black women. Specifically, I seek to examine how Black women, positioned at the intersection of various systems of oppression (racism, sexism, classism), develop and deal with stress, obesity, depression, and self-esteem. In addition, my research explores the identity development of Black women, specifically when situated in a predominately White environment, and how through that developed identity Black women experience various systems of oppression, which can ultimately effect their health. In regard to educational and health care institutions, my work explores institutional barriers and organizational readiness for the inclusion and expansion of diversity. Stereotypical and prejudicial attitudes abound in both the workplace and educational arenas. The perpetuation of institutional oppression by and among co-workers creates an unhealthy work environment for those in the oppressed group. Moreover, patient care suffers. Through the use of qualitative research methods and a Black feminist perspective, this work will serve to expand our understanding of a traditionally under-researched population and contribute to health care practitioners ability to provide culturally sensitive and appropriate care.
My current research interest include racial identity development, racial socialization, social stigma, Black feminist theory, social and structural inequality and stratification, health policy, and organizational diversity and change."
Education
Institution: Fielding
Graduate University, Ph.D.
Fielding Graduate University, M.A. Organizational Development
Fielding Graduate University,M.A. Human Development
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D.
Loyola University of Chicago, B.A.
Teaching
Leadership and Social Inequality in the MPH Program
Research
The Experiences of Black Women Who Relocate to a Predominately White Environments: A Critical Hermeneutic Inquiry paritially funded by Fielding Dissertation Research Grant, 2004-2005
Practice
Professional, Diversity, and Organizational Development Support to OHSU School of Nursing
Community Service
- 2004, International Center for Traditional Childbearing, Board Member
- 2004-2005, OHSU Ethnic/Minority Faculty Council, Member
Publications
Terhune, C. (In Press). Can we talk? Using critical self-reflection and dialogue to build diversity and change organizational culture in nursing schools. Journal of Cultural Diversity.
Terhune, C. (2005). Finding, developing, and (re)defining self: human development in a structurally unequal society. Journal of Diversity and Social Justice, 1(1), 15-35.
Terhune, C. (2004). From desegregation to diversity: how far have we really come? Journal of Nursing Education, 43(5), 1-2. (Guest Editorial)
Gates, Henry Louis and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ed. (2008) The African American National Bobliography. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jacbos, Donald Trent. (2008) The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research and Representation. New York: Routledge.