Patricia Drew Faculty Profile

• B.A., University of Oregon (Sociology), 1997
• M.S., Portland State University (Sociology), 2001
• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (Sociology), 2008

• Drew, Patricia and Rosann Edwards, Co-Editors. 2020. Breasts Across Motherhood: Lived Experiences and Critical Examinations. Demeter Press.
• Drew, Patricia. 2020. "Intergenerational Breasts: Breast Reduction Surgery and Family Breast Talk." Pp 209-222 in Breasts Across Motherhood: Lived Experiences and Critical Examinations, edited by Patricia Drew and Rosann Edwards. Demeter Press.
• Drew, Patricia. 2018. “Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender Differentiated Experiences of Vanity Stigma.” Pp 175-189 in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 36, edited by J.J. Kronenfeld. Emerald Group Publishing.
• Drew, Patricia. 2013. “Vaginal Rejuvenation Surgery.” Pp. 2025-2029 in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, edited by Mary Zeiss-Strange, Carol Oyster, and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2013. “Swing Dancing.” Pp. 1880 – 1884 in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, edited by Mary Zeiss-Strange, Carol Oyster, and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2011. “’But Then I Learned…”: Weight Loss Surgery Patients Negotiate Surgery Discourses.” Social Science and Medicine. 73:1230-1237.
• Drew, Patricia. “Elder Abuse.” 2011. Pp. 466-468 in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Eds. Mary Zeiss-Strange, Carol Oyster, and J. Geoffrey Golson. Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2011. “Sex Education – Comprehensive.” Pp. 1299 – 1301 in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Eds. Mary Zeiss-Strange, Carol Oyster, and J. Geoffrey Golson. Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2011. “Sex Education – Abstinence -Only.” Pp. 1298 – 1299 in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World. Eds. Mary Zeiss-Strange, Carol Oyster, and J. Geoffrey Golson. Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2010.  “Self-Identity.” Pp. 949-950 in Encyclopedia of Motherhood, edited by Andrea O’Reilly. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2010.  “Oregon.” Pp. 1106-1109 in Encyclopedia of Motherhood, edited by Andrea O’Reilly. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
•  Drew, Patricia. 2009. “Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Negotiations of Medicine’s Institutional Logic.” Pp. 65-92 in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 26, edited by J.J. Kronenfeld. Emerald Group Publishing.
• Drew, Patricia. 2009.  “Body Politics.” Pp. 96-97 in Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, edited by Jodi O’Brien. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Drew, Patricia. 2009.  “Dieting.” Pp. 198 – 200 in Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, edited by Jodi O’Brien. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 
• Drew, Patricia. 2007. “Social Perspectives on Women: Bodies and Identities.” Pp. 20 – 23 and 135-138 in Sociology of the Body: Syllabi and Instructional Materials. ASA Resource Manuals for Teaching, edited by Erin Anderson and Susan J. Ferguson. Washington DC: American Sociological Association.
•  Hartley, Heather and Tricia Drew. 2001. “Gendered Messages in Sex Ed Films: Trends and Implications for Female Sexual Problems.” Women and Therapy, The Hawthorne Press, Inc., 24(1-2):133-146.
•  Also published in A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems, edited by Ellyn Kaschak and Leonore Tiefer. The Hawthorne Press, Inc., pp. 136-146.  

• Drew, Patricia. "Intergenerational Breasts: Breast Reduction Surgery Patients and Family Breast Talk." Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. March 28-31, 2019.
• Drew, Patricia, Christina Chin-Newman, Alina Engelman and Sara Smith. “Resilience Among College Students with Disabilities: Protective Factors and Social Support.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Long Beach, CA, March 28 -31, 2018.
• Drew, Patricia, Christina Chin-Newman, and Sara Smith. “Stigma or Support from Faculty: Perceptions of Students with Disabilities or Learning Differences.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Portland, OR, April 7-10, 2017.
• Drew, Patricia. “Accessibility Allies on College Campuses: Supporting Students with Disabilities and Learning Differences.” Discussant. Western Social Science Association annual conference. San Francisco, CA, April 12-15, 2017.
• Drew, Patricia. “Empowered and Troubled: Popular Depictions of Midlife Women’s Bodies.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Oakland, CA, March 30-April 2, 2016.
• Drew, Patricia. “Midlife Women’s Bodies and Body Work in More.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Reno, NV, March 21-24, 2013.
• Drew, Patricia, William Graber and Evelyn Mariani. “Social Support Networks and Bariatric Surgery Patients.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Seattle, WA: April 10 – 13, 2011.
• Drew, Patricia. “Women, Aging, and the Marketing of Vaginoplasty.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Oakland, CA, April 8-11, 2010.
• Drew, Patricia. “Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Changing Conceptions of Stigmatizing Obesity Surgery Discourses.” Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. San Diego, CA, April 8 – April 11, 2009.
• Drew, Patricia. “Embracing, Selectively Accepting, and Strategically Complying: The Spectrum of Bariatric Surgery Patients’ Negotiations with Medical Guidelines.” American Sociological Association annual meeting. Boston, MA, August 1- August 4, 2008.
•  Drew, Patricia and Denise Bielby. “Transforming Discourses, Transforming Selves: Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Renegotiations of Medicine’s Institutional Logics.” American Sociological Association annual meeting. New York, NY, August 11 – August 14, 2007.
• Drew, Patricia. “Disavowing Beauty: Gendered Beauty Expectations and Weight Loss Surgery Patients.”  Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction annual meeting. New York, NY, August 11 – August 13, 2007 and Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Portland, OR, April 10-13 2008. 

Department of Human Development and Women’s Studies:

• Assessment Coordinator, 2011-2019
• Member, Retention, Tenure, Promotion Committee. 2016-18
• Member, Lecturer Review Committee. 2016 - present
• Chair, Human Development and Women’s Studies Scholarship Committee, 2015 – present
• Member, Department Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2017
• Member, Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee, 2016-17
• Chair, Retention, Tenure, Promotion Committee. 2015-16
• Member, Quarter to Semester Conversion Committee, 2015-16
• Chair, Advisory Committee for the Selection of the HDEV/WOST Department Chair, 2012
• Chair, HDEV Curriculum and Assessment Committee, 2009-14
• Member, “Against All Odds” Scholarship Committee, 2009-12
• Member, Childhood Faculty Search Committee, 2009-10

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences:

• Faculty Assessment Coordinator, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Assessment Coordinator Team, 2014-17.
• Member, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Assessment Coordinator Team, 2011-14
• Member, Faculty Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, College of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences, 2011
• Chair, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Textbook Scholarship Committee, 2010.
•  Member, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Textbook Scholarship Committee, 2009

University:

• Member, Committee on Academic Planning and Review. 2018-2020; 2021-2023.
• Member, Retention, Tenure, Promotion Committee for Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. 2017-18
• Member, Faculty Diversity and Equity Committee. 2015-2019
• CLASS Representative, Educational Effectiveness Council, 2013-17
• Faculty Mentor,University Honor’s Program, 2012-13; 2017
• Senator, California State University, East Bay Academic Senate, 2012-14
• Member, Critical Thinking Assessment Project, 2013-14
• Faculty Mentor, Faculty Mentoring Program, Office of Faculty Development, 2013-14
• Participant, CAPR Institutional Learning Outcomes Subcommittee, 2012.
• Member, California State University East Bay Foundation Board of Directors, 2009-11
• Mentor, McNair Scholars Program, 2009-10
• Member, McNair Scholars Application Review and Selection Committee, 2010
• Member, Faculty Learning Community for Early Career Faculty, 2009

Community:

• Member, Governing Board, Nea Community Learning Center, Alameda, California, 2011- 2020.

Select Professional Service:

• Program Chair, Pacific Sociological Association. 2021-22
• Member, Social Conscience Committee, Pacific Sociological Association. 2018-19.
• Reviewer, Health. 2008-2021.
• Reviewer, Social Science and Medicine. 2011-16.
• Presider, “Undergraduate Roundtables.”  Pacific Sociological Association annual meetings. 2017-2021. 

• Interim Co-Chair, Department of Sociology, CSU East Bay. 2021. 
• Interim Director, Liberal Studies Program, CSU East Bay. 2019-20.

• Weight Loss Surgery Research