Dissertation: Kicking the Habit: Recovering from Addiction across Social Divides (expected completion in May 2014)

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1 SARAH L. WHETSTONE Office: - Twin Cities 909 Social Sciences th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN Home: th Avenue South Apartment 3 Minneapolis, MN Phone: (612) whet0013@umn.edu Web: EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Sociology Dissertation: Kicking the Habit: Recovering from Addiction across Social Divides (expected completion in May 2014) Committee: Teresa Gowan (primary advisor), Douglas Hartmann (co-advisor), Joshua Page, and Arun Saldanha (Department of Geography, Environment, and Society; ) B.A., Sociology/Anthropology minor, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, 2007 Honors: Illinois General Assembly Honors Scholar, summa cum laude TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS Race, Class & Gender; Social Theory; Punishment, Deviance & Social Control; Sociology of Health & Illness; Drugs & Society; Qualitative Methods PUBLICATIONS Page, Joshua and Sarah Whetstone. Forthcoming. "Beyond the Trial: Teaching About the Disproportionate Imprisonment of African Americans." in Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context to Colorblindness. Ed. Kristin Haltinner. Springer Publishing. 1

2 Gowan, Teresa, Sarah Whetstone, and Tanja Andic "Addiction, Agency, and the Politics of Self- Control: Doing Harm Reduction in a Heroin Users' Group." Social Science & Medicine 74(8): Gowan, Teresa and Sarah Whetstone "Making the Criminal Addict: Subjectivity and Social Control in a 'Strong-Arm' Rehab." Punishment & Society 14(1): Whetstone, Sarah and Teresa Gowan "Diagnosing the Criminal Addict: Biochemistry in the Service of the State" in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12: Sociology of Diagnosis. Edited by P. J. McGann and David J. Hutson. Howard House, UK: Emerald Publishing, pg Whetstone, Sarah and Arturo Baiocchi "Criminal Desistance, Housing Stability, and Improved Quality of Life in a Housing First Program: Results from the FUSE Study." Prepared for Hennepin County FUSE, St. Stephen's Human Services, Heading Home Hennepin, and Hennepin County Community Corrections. WORK IN PROGRESS Whetstone, Sarah. Blueprints for Living: Narratives of Self-Control, Pleasure, and Risk in a Needle Exchange Program. In preparation for Social Problems. Whetstone, Sarah. Addicted to the Lifestyle: The Street Dealer s Habitus and Symbolic Violence in Drug Rehab." In preparation for Ethnography. Whetstone, Sarah. Harm Reduction as Racialized Biopolitics. Whetstone, Sarah. Invisible Privilege: Criminal Activity and Colorblind Ideology among White, Middle-Class Drug Users. Whetstone, Sarah. From Mother s Medicine Cabinet to Suboxone Maintenance: Framing Opiate Addiction in the 21 st Century. TEACHING & TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS Instructor,,. Poverty, Crime, & Social Policy, upcoming spring Drugs & Society, summer Social Theory, spring Current Issues in Crime Control, fall Teaching Assistant,,. 2

3 Social Theory, (Prof. Jeff Broadbent), Introduction to Sociology, (Prof. David Pellow), Juvenile Justice and Law, (Prof. Joshua Page), Sociology of Punishment and Corrections, (Prof. Joshua Page), Introduction to American Criminal Justice, (Prof. Joshua Page), Introduction to American Criminal Justice, (Prof. Joel Samaha), GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship "Kicking the Habit: Recovering from Addiction across Social Divides." $22,500. Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award , Sociological Research Institute. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship Award , Department of Sociology. "Unequal Treatment: A Comparative Study of Social Location, Drug Addiction, and the Meaning of Recovery." $5,000. Graduate Research Partnership Program Dissertation Fellowship "Race, Poverty, and Punishment in Post-Treatment Life: The Challenges of Addiction Recovery and Social Reintegration." $4,500. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award , Sociological Research Institute. University of Illinois Best Undergraduate Paper Award "The Evolution of the Traditional Justice System: The Therapeutic Model in the American Drug Court and the Value of a Restorative Approach." Illinois General Assembly Scholarship Award University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS "Addicted to the Lifestyle: The Medicalization of Social Marginality in Drug Rehabilitation." Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. "Making the Criminal Addict: Subjectivity and Social Control in a 'Strong-Arm' Rehab." (with Teresa Gowan) Anthropology Brown Bag Series.. 3

4 "Community Health Campaigns for Cultural Deviants: Harm Reduction and the Politics of Being Addicted." Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. "Balancing Public Sociology and Program Evaluation: Insights from Working on a Crusade to End Homelessness." (with Arturo Baiocchi) Sociology Department Workshop Series. University of Minnesota. "Treatment vs. Management: Constructing the Addict in Therapeutic Communities and Harm Reduction Programs." (with Teresa Gowan and Tanja Andic) Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Des Moines, IA. "One Family under a Higher Power: Rehabilitation and the 'White'washing of Race." (with Teresa Gowan and Kristin Haltinner) Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Des Moines, IA. "Treatment vs. Management: Constructing the Addict in Therapeutic Communities and Harm Reduction Programs." Sociological Research Institute.. FUSE Housing First Program Evaluation. (with Arturo Baiochi) Presented to St. Stephen s Human Services and Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections. Minnesota. "Public Sociology as Transaction: Reflections from the F.U.S.E. Evaluation." (with Arturo Baiocchi) Sociological Research Institute.. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Principal Investigator,, Kicking the Habit: Recovering from Addiction across Social Divides Present Tasks include conducting long-term ethnographic observations of the addiction recovery process in two local drug rehabilitation centers; scheduling and conducting in-depth interviews with approximately 80 men participating in recovery and 15 program staff members; analyzing field notes and interview transcripts; writing a dissertation manuscript and preparing research articles; preparing reports and research briefs for partner organizations. Co-Investigator (with Primary Investigator Teresa Gowan),, Perspectives on Addiction, Responsibilities included conducting long-term ethnographic observations in selected drug treatment facilities; scheduling and conducting in-depth interviews with treatment participants and staff; analyzing qualitative data in Atlas TI; preparing scholarly research articles; drafting reports and research briefs for partner organizations; project management activities including: coordinating research objectives across multiple sites; training and supervising undergraduate assistants in research methodology, transcription, Atlas TI and human subjects protocols. Research Assistant, Professor Teresa Gowan,, "Perspectives on Addiction," Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship Program,

5 Program Evaluator and Research Consultant, with co-researcher Arturo Baiocchi, Hennepin County F.U.S.E. Housing First Program, Tasks included planning and conducting a mixed methods evaluation of a Housing First program designed to reduce chronic homelessness for individuals with histories of heavy involvement in county correctional and shelter systems; conducing a quantitative analysis of the effect of program participation on shelter use and criminal recidivism; scheduling and conducting 40 in-depth interviews with participants about their transition to stable housing; preparing research briefs, presentations, and a final report for partner community organizations. Field Interviewer, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Study, Council on Crime and Justice, National Institute of Justice, Responsibilities included collecting survey responses from recent arrestees on their drug use history, involvement in crime, past treatment episodes, and need for future treatment. ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Promotion, Tenure, & Salary Committee; Graduate Representative;, ; Sociological Research Institute Awards Committee; ; Race Reading Group Discussion Series, Facilitator;, ; Reviewer for Symbolic Interaction; Graduate Student Mentor; Graduate Student First-Year Mentoring Program;, ; 2010-present. MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Assocation Crime, Law, and Deviance Body and Embodiment Race, Class, and Gender Medical Sociology Midwest Sociological Society Society for the Study of Social Problems 5

6 REFERENCES Teresa Gowan Associate Professor Joshua Page Associate Professor Douglas Hartmann Professor Arun Saldanha Associate Professor Department of Geography, Environment & Society

Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Dippong

Curriculum Vitae Joseph C. Dippong Department of Sociology Fretwell 485C University of North Carolina at Charlotte 704-687-0983 9201 University City Blvd. jdippong@uncc.edu Charlotte, NC 28223 EDUCATION