Bethany Johnson, MPhil, M.A.
926 Henley Place, Charlotte, N.C. 28207
Proven capabilities in research, teaching, course design, public speaking and group facilitation.Depth of experience includes:
- 12+ years of professorial experience with college students (undergraduate and graduate), high school students and adults, focusing on American history, health policy, gender-based social justice issues, grassroots activism and civic engagement
- 8+ years research experience in American women’s history, American medical history; 2+ years research experience in rhetorical Health Communication studies
- 10+ years experience with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Prezi, and Google application suite; 3+ years experience with Moodle; 2+ years experience with InterClipper, Audacity, and SoundCloud
Education:
The New School for Social Research, New School University, New York, New York2009-2010
Master of Arts, American Studies, GPA: 3.93
The Centre for Development Studies, Economics Department, University of Glasgow,2004-2005
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Master of Philosophy, Development Studies
Nyack College, Nyack, New York1999-2002
Bachelor of Arts, History, summa cum laude / GPA: 3.89
Academic positions/teaching:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North CarolinaPresent
Research Faculty Associate, Department of Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North CarolinaPresent
Research Affiliate, Women + Girls Research Alliance
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina2013-2016
Visiting Lecturer; adjunct lecturer, Department of History
HIST 2151: US Women’s History Since 1877 (Fall 2014)
HIST 2000: “Lotions, Potions, Pills and Magic:” Early American Medicine, 1650-1850 (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
HIST 1161: US History Since 1877 (Spring 2014)
LBST 2102: Surviving: Women and Children in the Developing World (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
LBST 2101: Western History & Culture: Epidemics in the Western World (Fall 2014; Online, Fall 2016)
Nyack College, Nyack, New York2009-2012
Adjunct Faculty, Department of history
HIS 357:Women in American History (Fall 2012)
HIS 113/114: World Civilizations I/II (2010-2012)
INT 112: Foundations for Excellence(Fall 2009)
Baruch College, Manhattan, New York2011
Adjunct Faculty, Center for student life
FRO:Freshman Seminar
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkhill, New York2011-2012
Adjunct Faculty, department of history
HIST 102: History of the United States, II
Nyack College,Manhattan, New York2003
Adjunct Faculty, department of history
HIS 113: Western Civilizations, I
Supervision:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 2013-Present
Independent study, department of Communication studies:
Undergraduate:
COMM 3880: Laura McCorkle (Fall 2015)
COMM 3880: Samantha Vineyard (Fall 2014)
COMM 3880: Julie Rose, (Spring 2014)
COMM 3880: Eric McPherson, (Fall 2013)
COMM 3880: Jade Meyers, (Fall 2013; Spring 2016)
COMM 3880: Kelly Rice (Fall 2014)
graduate:
COMM 6880: Jaclyn Marsh (Summer 2014)
COMM 6880: Jade Myers (Spring 2015; Fall 2015; Spring 2016)
COMM 6880: Emma Butterworth (Fall 2016)
Internship Advising,department of communication studies:
COMM 4410: Samantha Vineyard (Spring 2015)
COMM 4410: Tori Eller (Summer 2016)
COMM 4410: Madeline Michalik (Summer 2016)
Work study, department of communication studies:
Undergraduate research assistant: Meredith Hanes, (2013-2014)
Graduate Research Assistant: Jade Meyers (Fall 2014; Summer 2015)
SCHOLARSHIP:
Book reviews:
Review of Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady, by Lewis L. Gould, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 112 (2), pp. 306-308. (Spring 2014).
Review of Lotions, Potions, Pills and Magic: Early American Healthcare, 1650-1850, by Elaine Breslaw, North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 90 (4), pp. 416-417. (October 2013).
Review of Sex, Sickness and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South, by Marli F. Weiner and Mazie Hough, Ohio Valley History,Vol. 13 (3), pp. 79-80. (Spring 2013).
Review of Touching America’s History: From the Pequot War Through WWII, by Meredith Mason Brown, Ohio Valley History, Vol. 13 (2), pp. 93-94.(Summer 2013).
Double-blind peer reviewed Journal Articles:
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. (In press)“High-society Framing: The Brooklyn Eagle and the Popularity of Twilight Sleep in Brooklyn.”Health Communication,doi: 10.1080/10410236.2015.1099505.
Johnson, B. (2015) “Discomforted Research and Teaching: Using Physical and Digital Archives in Gendered Health Communication,” Women & Language, 38.1, 121-132.
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. (In press) “Insiders and Outsiders and Insider(s) Again in the (In)fertility World,” in Health Communication, doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1138384.
Johnson, B. (In press) “Personal, Interpersonal, Biomedical, Textual: A Reconstructed Dialogue on Infertility and Fertility Privilege.” Departures in Qualitative Critical Research,DCQR-2015-0011
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M. M. (2015). “Technical vs. Public Spheres of Knowledge: A Feminist Analysis of Women’s Rhetoric in the Twilight Sleep Debates of 1914-1916.Health Communication, 30,1076-1088. doi:10.1080/10410236.2014.921269.
Manuscripts Forthcoming or Under Review:
Johnson, B. & Quinlan, M.M., Myers, J. (Under review) “Commerce, industry and security: Patient-generated metaphors describing practitioner-patient communication during REI treatment(s).”Submitted toWomen’s Reproductive Health. (IRB # 14-06-26), WRH12-16.
Johnson, B., Quinlan, M.M. (Under review) “‘For her own good’: The expert-woman dynamic and the body politics of REI treatment.” To be submitted to the special issue, “Gender and Health,” of Women & Language, April 2016.
Johnson, B. & Quinlan, M.M. (Under review) “Infertility myths and the media: The hostile uterus, a baby at any age, and the last fertile woman on a lonely planet.” Submitted to Women and Language.
Johnson, B., Quinlan, M.M., Marsh, J., (Under review) “‘I don’t do email’ vs. ‘She called me on vacation:’ (Un)Supportive Nurse Communication in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility Practices.” To be submitted to Journal of Holistic Nursing, March 2016. (IRB # 14-06-26),JHN-16-Mar-0035.
Current RESEARCH and grants:
Research or Draftin Progress:
Johnson, B., & Smith, J.D. (Draft in progress) “‘A Man of Immense Importance:’ Frederick C. Ainsworth and the Abrupt End of an Illustrious Career.” To be submitted to The American Archivist, June 2017.
Johnson, B., Quinlan, M.M. (Research in progress) “Interpreting the silence: patient perceptions of practitioner silence during Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility treatment(s).” To be submitted to Women’s Reproductive Health, August, 2016. (IRB # 14-06-26)
Johnson, B., Quinlan, M.M., Myers, D. (Research in progress) “Peddling hope: anticipation in exchange for agency during Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility treatment(s).” To be submitted toHealth Communication, June 2016. (IRB # 14-06-26)
Book Proposal:
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. (Draft in progress) You’re Doing it Wrong: 150 Years of Conception, Pregnancy, Birth, Postnatal Care, Childrearing and Loss. To be submitted to [Name of Press].
Grants:
Internal grants:
Funded:
Top 40 Preceptor Program; Top 40 Academy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte2014
Grant provided paid Preceptor for large classroom support (class size of 100+); two grants, $2,200 awarded
External grants:
Funded:
Organization for Research on Women and Communication2015
Role: Co PI with Margaret Quinlan
“Practitioner-Patient Communication: Women’s Experiences with Reproductive Endocrinology.”(Revised)March 2015, $1,000 awarded.
Completed; Unfunded:
Research Support Grant, Schelsinger LibraryApril 2016
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
“Female Doctors and Sterility: A Study of Hidden Infertility History”
Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Role: Co PI with Margaret Quinlan
“Practitioner-Patient Communication: Women’s Experiences with Reproductive Endocrinology.”July 2014.
conference papers:
Competitively selected conference panels:
Johnson, B. “Discomforted Research and Teaching: Using Physical and Digital Archives in Gendered Health Communication.” Annual meeting of OSCLG for panel entitled, “Service Learning in the Gender/Sexuality Classroom,” Bowling Green, KY, October 2015.
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. “High-society Framing: The Brooklyn Eagle and the Popularity of Twilight Sleep in Brooklyn.” Annual meeting of OSCLG for panel entitled, “Health Communication, Reproduction and (In)fertility” Bowling Green, KY, October 2015.
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. “Technical vs. Public Spheres: A Feminist Analysis of Women’s Rhetoric in the Twilight Sleep Debates of 1914-1916.” Paper presented at annual meeting ofOSCLG for panel entitled, “Marginal (Gendered) Identities in Healthcare Contexts,” San Francisco, CA, October 2014.
Under Review; Competitively selected Conference Panels:
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. (under review) “This is your job, to me it means the world: Female patients’ perceptions of nurses’ communication during Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (REI) treatment.” Competitive paper submitted to the Applied Communication Division at the 102nd annual meeting of the National Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA, November, 2016.
Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M.M. (under review) “(Re)defining (y)our families in the midst of (in)fertility research and treatment,“ Paper to be presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender, 39th Annual Conference, Oak Park, IL.
Service to the academy:
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Organization for Research on Women and Communication (ORWAC)Present
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Health CommunicationPresent
INVITED LECTURES/Panels:
Beauty from a cross-cultural perspective: PanelistFall 2015
Central High Performing Arts Center, Central Piedmont Community College
Women’s History Month Panel: Panelistspring 2015
Central High Performing Arts Center, Central Piedmont Community College
“Using Moodle 2”2014
Graduate TA Training, Center for Graduate Life, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“‘Sardis University:’ International Development and Macro-Systemic Change”2013
Sardis Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
“Gendered Bodies in Health Communication: Twilight sleep,”
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina2012, 2013
“The History of Grass Roots Activism,”
Center for Safety and Change, New City, New York2010
“The Historical Roots of the Genocide in Darfur,”2008
Keynote Speaker, Homecoming “break-out event,” Nyack College, Nyack, New York
“College youth, social justice and systemic change”
Global Awareness Week, University of Albany,Albany, New York2007-2008
“Microfinance in the Developing World,”
Diversity Initiative Training in Finance for Wells Fargo, Detroit, Michigan2007
Consulting, contracted and non-profit work:
Qualitative Data Analyst; University of North Carolina; CharlotteFall 2015
Analysis of qualitative research on practitioner-patient communication, coding and metaphor study
(IRB # 14-06-26)
Consultant, REACH; Charlotte, North Carolina2014-2015
Infertility and smartphone applications: Tailoring technology for emotional and social support of patients
Consultant, “A beautiful remedy,” documentary film2014
Award: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award, Ohio Valley Chapter, Arts/Entertainment Award, 2014; airing on PBS, January 2015. Part of the series, “The Courage of Creativity”
Trailer:
Sound and Story Project at Nyack Library, Nyack, New York2012
The Hudson River Valley Heritage Project: “Voices of the Hudson River Valley”
Vision Trekk with bethel college, Minneapolis, Minnesota/ Manhattan, New York2012
Team leader, Gallup Strengths Consultant, History Consultant
The Rising Group, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut2005-2008
Executive Director, Board Consultant, Fundraiser
Baseline Impact Assessment Survey Project, Turame, Bujumbura, Burundi2006
Microfinance Consultant, Base-line Impact-Assessment Survey Designer
Professional Affiliations:
American historical Association
Berkshire conference of women’s historians
Organization for Research on women and communication
Organization for the study of communication, language, & Gender
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REsearch interests:
*American History* the long 19th century * women’s history* American medical history *the history of birth and infertility * epidemics*Practitioner-patient communication * gender and health communication