Associate Professor
University of Washington Bothell
18115 Campus Way NE
Box 358532
Bothell, WA 98011
mabrums@u.washington.edu
Phone: 425.352.5323
Fax: 425.352.3237
Office: UW1-238
Academic Interests:
I am interested in teaching and learning about discrimination and disparity in health care both locally and globally, sexual orientation, alternative healing strategies, gender issues, cultural competency in nursing, community health issues related to poverty, violence and global health care, adolescent issues, parenting, and global health.
Research Interests:
My research interests include: using narrative stories as a healing modality, narrative analysis, ethnographic research methods, feminist methodology, critical medical anthropology, and social justice.
Teaching Activities:
BHLTH 455/555 Women, Culture, and Healing
BHLTH 462 Global and Local Health Inequalities: Practices and Interventions
BNURS 407 Cultural and Social Issues in Health Care
BNURS 408 Nursing Care with Families in the Community
BNURS 409 Nursing Strategies for Community as Client
BNURS 504 Disparity and Social Justice in Health Care
BNURS 503 Advanced Fieldwork
BNURS 507 Advanced Nursing Roles
BNURS 598 Scholarly Project
Professional Activities:
Sigma Theta Tau
Council of Nursing and Anthropology
The Society for Applied Anthropology
Resource advisor to members of Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church & Yesler Terrace Housing Project
Honors and Awards:
Diversity Fellow, Presidents Diversity Fund, 2005
Nurses and Narratives Award, 2003
Worthington Distinguished Scholar Award, 2002
Institute for Teaching Excellence, UW Teaching Academy, 2002
Education:
PhD and MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington Seattle
MN, Family and Child Nursing, specialty in adolescence, University of Washington Seattle
BSN, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver
BA, humanities, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins
Clinical Background:
Community health nursing-School Age Parenting program; general community health; Ambulatory care nursing-Adolescent Health Clinic and Young Women's Clinic
Selected Recent Publications and Presentations:
Abrums, Mary E. Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church (in press). Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press.
Abrums, M.E., J. Resnick, L. Irving (in press). Journey or Destination? Evaluating Student Learning about Race, Class and Privilege in Health Care. Nursing Education Perspectives. NLN.
Abrums, M. E. and Kim Sharp (eds.) (2008). Our Words, Our Healing: twenty-three Women and Two Men. University of Washington, Bothell.
Abrums, M.E. & Sharp, K. (Eds.) (2006, June) Stories of Women We Know. University if Washington, Bothell
Abrums, M.E. (2005, Spring). "Jesus will fix it after awhile": Meanings and health. In R.B. McNeal & K. Tiemann (Eds.). Intersections: Readings in Sociology. Boston, MA.: Pearson Custom Publishing.
Abrums, M.E. & Rosenberg, B. R. (Eds.) (2005, June). Journeys of Healing. University of Washington, Bothell.
Abrums, M.E. (2004). Faith and feminism: How African American women from a storefront church resist oppression in health care. Advances in Research Methoods (Part II) Advances in Nursing Science: (Advances in Research Methoods (Part II))27(3):187-201.
Abrums, M.E. Rosenberg, B. (Eds.) (2003). Beautiful spirits, strong wills: Stories of culture and healing. University of Washington, Bothell. http://www.uwb.edu/writingcenter/anthology/2003/
Abrums, M.E. & Leppa, C. (2001). Beyond cultural competence: Teaching about race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Journal of Nursing Education 40(6): 270-275.
Abrums, M.E. (2000, Winter). The meaning of racism when the "field" is the other side of town. Journal of Cultural Diversity 7(4): 99-107.