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Pamela Block
Program in Occupational Therapy • School of Health Technology & Management • HSC L1-439 • SUNY Stony Brook • Stony Brook, NY 11794-8201 • 631-444-3197 (phone) • 631-444-7621 (fax) • Pamela.Block@stonybrook.edu
Education
? Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Brown University, 1999-2001
? Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University 1997
Fields of Specialization: Disability Studies
Doctoral Dissertation: Biology, Culture and Cognitive Disability: Twentieth
Century Professional Discourse in Brazil and the United States
? B.A., Liberal arts, Hampshire College, 1990
Senior Thesis: Motherhood and Power in Women Strike for Peace.
Recent Employment History
9/02-Present - Clinical Associate Professor
Program in Occupational Therapy
School of Health Technology & Management
SUNY Stony Brook
1/02-Present - Assistant Professor (Research & Adjunct)
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Dept. of Community Health, Brown University
1/00-Present - Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Rhode Island
Research Interests
Intersections of gender, sexuality, race, poverty, and disability
Disability culture, and cultural perceptions of disability; International disability-rights movements in Brazil, the United States, Asia, and Europe
Medical, educational, and social service systems in Brazil and the United States; Organizational structures and the development of professional ideologies and practices
Eugenics and involuntary sterilization in Brazil and the United States
Social marginality and movements for social change
Sexuality, reproductive health, and contraceptive technology.
Selected Grants, Fellowships, & Awards
January 2002- Principal Investigator, NIDRR CFDA Program 84.133,
December 2004 PR/Award No: H133G010094, ($450,000)
- Shake It Up for Alcohol and Substance Use Reduction: Health Promotion and Capacity Building for Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries
March 1998 - Partners of the Americas Citizen Participation Grant
April 1998 Needs assessment and conference in Aracaju, Brazil
April 1995 - Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
March 1996 Doctoral Research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 1992 - Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
September 1993 Portuguese study at Duke University
June 1992 - Tinker Field Research Grant
August 1992 Preliminary Research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 1992 - Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
August 1992 Portuguese study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Recent Projects
Dialogues For Diversity Disability Studies Discussion Group
Funded through a Dialogues for Diversity Grant
Selected Publications
Block, P. (in press). Book Review. Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Gelya Frank. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 284 pp., photographs, notes, references, index. American Ethnologist.
Block, P. (in press). Prisons and Utopias: The Development of Cognitive Disability in Brazil. IN Engaging Anthropology in Disability Studies (Eds. Devva Krasnitz and Russell Shuttleworth). Greenwood Press.
Block, P., Balcazar, F., Keys, C. (2002). Race Poverty and Disability: Three Strikes and You’re Out! Or are You? Social Policy. 33(1): 34-8.
Block, P. (2002). Sterilization, Sexual Control, & Intellectual Disability in Brazil. IN Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities (Eds. Patricia Walsh, and Tamar Heller) Oxford: Blackwell Science, pp. 76-89.
Block, P. (2002). Sexuality, parenthood, and cognitive disability in Brazil.Sexuality and Disability, 20(1): 7-28. http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0146-1044/contents
Block, P. (2002). Introduction to the Special Issue: Parents with disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 20(1):3-5. http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0146-1044/contents
Block, P., Balcazar, B., & Keys, C. (2001) From Pathology to Power: Rethinking Race, Poverty and Disability. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 12(1):18-27.
Block, P. (2000). Sexuality, Fertility and Danger: Twentieth Century Images of Women with Cognitive Disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 18(4): 239-54.
Block, P. (1996) Frankenstein moves to Glen Ridge: Sexual violence and 'mental defect.' Infanto - Revista de Neuropsiquiatria da Infância e Adolescência 4(2):21-5.
Block, P. (1992). The politics of reproduction in Brazil. In, Proceedings: Engendering Knowledge/Engendering Power: Feminism in Theory and Practice, Cynthia Baker, Ed. The Third Annual Women's Studies Graduate Conference, Duke University.
Translations
Rocha L.E. & Seligmann, S. (in press). Health and Work. Balcazar, F. E., Montero, M. & Newbrough, J. R. Promoción de la Salud en las Americas: Estudios de caso desde la perspectiva de la psicología comunitaria.
Selected Conference Presentations
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Disability and Substance Use; Panel organizer and moderator at the Society for Disability Studies 15th Annual Meeting, June 8, 2002, Oakland, California.
Social History and Cultural Perceptions of Women with Cognitive Disabilities; Paper presented at Symposium on Diversity and Disability. University of Hawaii, March 3, 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii.
International Symposia on Self Advocacy, Co-Organizer; This series of symposia included self advocates and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Canada, England, and Australia at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability, Seattle, August 3, 2000.
Supporting Self Advocacy: Addressing Race, Poverty and Disability; Paper presented at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability, Seattle, August 3, 2000.
International and Cross Cultural Perspectives on Research and Activism in Disability Rights; Paper presented at the Society of Disability Studies Meetings, Chicago, June 30, 2000, (with Charlton, J).
Defective and Defenseless: Cognitive Disability, Sexuality, and Social Identity. Paper presented at the 1998 American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, December 3, 1998.
Developmental Dilemmas: The History of Special Education in Brazil; Paper presented at the 1998 Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 22, 1998,.
Educação Especial no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos, (Special Education in Brazil and the United States); Lecture presented at the APAE do Rio de Janeiro. April 24, 1998.
Sexualidade, 1998 Congresso sobre Cidadania para as Pessoas com Necessidades Especiais, (Sexuality); Panel discussion at the 1998 Conference on Citizenship for People with Special Needs. Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, March 31-April 2nd.
Auto-Genenciamento, 1998 Congresso sobre Cidadania para as Pessoas com Necessidades Especiais, (Self Advocacy); Lecture given at the 1998 Conference on Citizenship for People with Special Needs. Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, March 31-April 2nd.
The Evolution of Service Provision in Brazil; Paper presented at the 1997 TASH Conference, Boston, December 11, 1997.
Eugenic Sterilization in Brazil; Paper presented at the Brazilian Studies Association Conference, BRASA IV, Washington, D.C., November 13, 1997.
Selected Workshops
Inclusão na Communidade e Profissionalização para Adultos Portadoras de Necessidades Especiais, (Community Inclusion and Jobs for Adults with Special Needs); Workshop presented at Escola Rosa Azul, Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, June 12, 1998.
Treinamento de Liderança, 1998 Congresso sobre Cidadania para as Pessoas com Necessidades Especiais, (Leadership Training);Three-day workshop given at the 1998 Conference on Citizenship for People with Special Needs, Aracaju, Sergipe, March 31-April 2nd, Brazil.
Courses Taught
Cultural Anthropology URI S2001
Sex and Gender URI S2000
Societies and Cultures of Latin America URI S2001
Disability, Health and Community, Brown U F2000, F2001
Society, Culture, and Disability URI F2001
Research Design in Occupational Therapy SBU S2003
Disability & Medicine SBU S2003
Foreign Languages Skill Level
Portuguese Fluent
Spanish Proficient