Professor of Sociology
dobrankm@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
BA (Sociology), Kent State University
MA (Sociology), Northwestern University
PhD (Sociology), Northwestern University
Teaching
- Digital Inequality
- Microsociology: The Individual and Society
- Sociology of Organizations
- Medical Sociology
- Madness and Society: The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
- Disability and Society
Research
Sociology of Mental Health/Illness, Organizations, Disability, Health/Social Policy, Information and Communication Technologies, Cultural Sociology
Publications
2021. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “The Closing Skills Gap: Revisiting the Digital Disability Divide.” Pp. 274-282 in E. Hargittai, Ed. The Handbook of Digital Inequality. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2021. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19.” American Behavioral Scientist 65(12):1698-1720. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00027642211003146
2020. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “People with Disabilities during COVID-19.” Contexts: Sociology for the Public 19(4):46-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504220977935
2020. Dobransky, Kerry. "Reassessing Mental Illness Stigma in Mental Health Care: Competing Stigmas and Risk Containment." Social Science and Medicine 249. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112861
2019. Dobransky, Kerry. “Breaking Down Walls, Building Bridges: Professional Stigma Management in Mental Health Care.” Society and Mental Health 9(2):228-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156869317750705
2018. Dobransky, Kerry. "Digital Divides, Disability and." pp. 201-203 in Warf, B., Ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. Sage. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n66
2017. Hargittai, Eszter and Kerry Dobransky. “Old Dogs, New Clicks: Digital Inequality in Skills and Uses Among Older Adults”. Canadian Journal of Communication 42:195-212.
2017. Dobransky, Kerry. “Community Mental Health Care Organizations.” in Scheid, T and Wright E, Handbook of for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems, 3rd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2016. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “Unrealized Potential: Exploring the Digital Disability Divide.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts 58: 18-28.
2014. Dobransky, Kerry. Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2012. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “Inquiring Minds Acquiring Wellness: Uses of Online and Offline Sources for Health Information.” Health Communication 27:331-343.
2011. Dobransky, Kerry. “Labeling, Looping, and Social Control: Contextualizing Diagnosis in Community Mental Health Care.” Advances in Medical Sociology 12:111-131.
2009. Dobransky, Kerry. “The Good, the Bad, and the Severely Mentally Ill: Official and Informal Labels as Organizational Resources in Community Mental Health Services.” Social Science and Medicine 69:722-728
2008. DeSoucey, Michaela, JoEllen Pozner, Corey Fields, Kerry Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine. “Memory and Sacrifice: An Embodied Theory of Martyrdom.” Cultural Sociology 2:99-121.
2007. Dobransky, Kerry. “City Folk: Survival Strategies of Tradition-Bearing Organizations.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 35: 239-261.
2006. Dobransky, Kerry and Gary Alan Fine. “The Native in the Garden: Floral Politics and Cultural Entrepreneurs.” Sociological Forum 21:559-584.
2006. Dobransky, Kerry and Eszter Hargittai. “The Disability Divide in Internet Access and Use.” Information, Communication and Society 9:313-334.
