DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
new brunswick / piscataway
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Ellen Idler
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Ph.D. Yale University, 1985 Mailing Address:
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| Ellen Idler (Ph.D., Yale, 1985) Professor I, is currently Acting Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers. She maintains a research program on the impact of health perceptions on mortality and disability in middle-aged and elderly populations and has broader interests in the psychosocial resources that determine health status, including a special interest in religion. She was a 1988 recipient of an NIA FIRST Award. She received the FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education in 1998 and the Citizenship and Service Education Faculty Award in 2004. In 1999 she had an appointment as visiting faculty at the Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, working with Danish collaborators on studies of self-ratings of health among the very old. She is a collaborator with other Rutgers and UMDNJ investigators on two current NIH-funded projects, one a study of religiousness and spirituality as factors in recovery from open-heart surgery, and the other a five-year Mind-Body Center where she is involved in projects on end of life decision-making, and a second project on health perceptions and illness representations in primary care. Other projects include a study of religious involvement among elders in their last year of life, and the development of measures of religiousness for health research. She is the co-author of The Hidden Health Care System (1981) and the author of Cohesiveness and Coherence: Religion and the Health of the Elderly (1994). She is a Fellow and current Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America, a 2007-08 Fellow of the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis, a member of the honorary Sociological Research Association of the American Sociological Association, an Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher, and she sits on the editorial boards of Rutgers University Press, the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Forum, the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | ||