Elizabeth A Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 223770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2582-4519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“It gave everybody a voice”
Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, the U.S. has seen nearly 100 million people leave their organizations.Footnote1 Such record-breaking transformations call for an investigation into how dissent shapes organizational life, particularly in times of complexity. In this essay, we argue dissent expression manifested through frustration and inconsistency illuminate opportunities for organizations to create healt…
Aspen Collective for Engaged Communication Scholarship statement
Since 2002, a collective of communication scholars and practitioners has gathered in Aspen, Colorado, and cities nearby, to share their experiences and challenges collaborating with communities and
Engaging the next generation of scholars
I came to my first Aspen Conference in 2015. I had recently arrived at Colorado State University, and a local firefighting organization contacted me to do research with them. I knew how to help the
The Land of the Hunger Artists
“Nobody Knew the Rules”
Nonprofit organizations faced a high demand for their services during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet they experienced unique constraints due to their distinct financial model amidst a global economic crisis. Given the extraordinary circumstances that nonprofits confronted during the pandemic, the purpose of this study is to understand nonprofit workers’ experiences navigating COVID-19, how they coped with COVID-related constraints, how they generated…
Technopolitics and Tenderloins
Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy
Minerva's French Sisters
High reliability organizing through an extended crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations that had previously operated in low-risk conditions found themselves in environments where failure could be catastrophic. Using the framework of high reliability organizations (HRO), we analyze a specific case of a U.S. university taskforce charged with responding to the pandemic. We argue that the practices employed by the taskforce align with HRO principles, leading to two important theoretical contri…
Andreas Mayer, The Science of Walking
In recent years, historians of science have made fruitful use of an analytical perspective focused on the definition of natural phenomena as ‘objects’ of science. Andreas Mayer turns this process of objectification on its head. Tracing the history of ‘a science that does not exist’, he examines ‘theories and practices of observation and experimentation’ (p.2) in anthropology, physiology, orthopedic surgery, neurology and psychiatry, as well as li…
Predicting the selection of protein-containing foods in older adults
Mirror on the Field
Framed conceptually by gender equity, gender homophily, the contest regime of blind peer-review publishing, and the gendered nature of the quantitative–qualitative debate, this study investigated the intersection of authorship, gender, and methodological characteristics of 408 articles published from 2006 to 2010 in 3 major higher education journals. Nonbinary coding of author gender based on pronouns identified via Web searches virtually elimina…
Medical Education in Eighteenth-century Montpellier
In October 1739 a 17-year-old Théophile de Bordeu left his home in Izeste in the Pyrenees on the journey that would take him to Montpellier for four years of medical study. During his time in Montpellier Bordeu studied with distinguished professors; learned the fundamentals of both medicine and surgery; taught private courses; and formed lasting associations with other students. Six years later, in September 1745, another to-be-famous physician, …
Conflicted Identification in the Sex Education Classroom
Despite enormous resources spent on sex education, the United States faces an epidemic of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among young people. Little research has examined the role sex educators play in alleviating or exacerbating this problem. In this study, we interviewed 50 sex educators employed by public schools throughout a Midwestern, U.S. state about their experiences in the sex education classroom. Twenty-two inter…
How We Know What We Know”
This study replicates and extends a 2004 content analysis of three major higher education journals. The original study examined the methodological characteristics of all published research in these journals from 1996 to 2000, recommending that higher education programs adjust their graduate training to better match the heavily quantitative and statistically sophisticated journal content. We examine the same journals' content from 2006 to 2010—-on…
Revisiting the Worksite in Worksite Health Campaigns
This article advances the beginnings of a general theory of organizational features to aid in understanding why health campaigns that work well in one organization may be ineffectual in another organization. The physical, social, and information structures of organizations are theorized to create an interaction environment that is distinct to each organization and that influences health campaigns. To test this argument, an organ donation campaign…
Sciences of appetite in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800
Stomach and Psyche
In premodern medicine eating and digestion were often linked to psychic disturbance, yet modern "mental medicine" is generally thought to have abandoned this ancient assumption. The work of Philippe Pinel, founder of French psychiatry and advocate of the "moral treatment," has been regarded as indicative of this process, but in fact eating and digestion remained important to Pinel's understanding of the néuroses , the variety of disease within wh…
Study Protocol
Current Controlled Trials Registration No. ISRCTN35811298
Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist Medicine
Argument Montpellier vitalists upheld a medical perspective akin to modern “holism” in positing the functional unity of creatures imbued with life. While early vitalists focused on the human organism, Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud investigated digestion, growth, and other physiological processes that human beings shared with simpler organisms. Eschewing modern investigative methods, Grimaud promoted a medically-grounded “metaphysics.”…
Neuroses of the Stomach
In the period 1800-1870, French physicians approached psychic illness (Philippe Pinel's "neurosis") within competing "cerebralist" and "visceralist" frameworks. Cerebralism, which dominated the specialty of mental medicine, sought the origins of psychic illness in lesions of the brain and central nervous system. "Visceralism," upheld by generalists, clung to the view of the ancients that psychic disorder was seated in the abdominal viscera. The d…
La medecine a Geneve jusqu'a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle (review)
The author of this classic work in the history of medicine was a graduate of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, a practitioner in his native Geneva, and a dedicated autodidact in the history of medicine. As noted in the introduction, the work—affectionately known to locals as "le Gautier"—has long been regarded as an indispensable resource for the history of medicine in Geneva. The occasion for its reprinting was the 125th anniversary of the founding…
The Physical and the Moral
Hysteria and the Court Physician in Enlightenment France
Of the many reasons why hysteria exerts such great fascination over historians, none is more compelling than the fact that hysteria seems to come and go with changing cultural tempers. Although hysteria was once thought to be one of the most stable of disease entities, recent historical work has made clear that attention to, or even recognition of, hysteria has been far from constant. Michael Micale devoted a good section of his 1995 survey of th…
The Body Politic
The Body Politic
Mirror on the Field
Framed conceptually by gender equity, gender homophily, the contest regime of blind peer-review publishing, and the gendered nature of the quantitative–qualitative debate, this study investigated the intersection of authorship, gender, and methodological characteristics of 408 articles published from 2006 to 2010 in 3 major higher education journals. Nonbinary coding of author gender based on pronouns identified via Web searches virtually elimina…
The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students
Elizabeth A. Williams, Julie A. Lam, Michael Shively, The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1992), pp. 50-64
How We Know What We Know”
This study replicates and extends a 2004 content analysis of three major higher education journals. The original study examined the methodological characteristics of all published research in these journals from 1996 to 2000, recommending that higher education programs adjust their graduate training to better match the heavily quantitative and statistically sophisticated journal content. We examine the same journals' content from 2006 to 2010—-on…
Neuroses of the Stomach
In the period 1800-1870, French physicians approached psychic illness (Philippe Pinel's "neurosis") within competing "cerebralist" and "visceralist" frameworks. Cerebralism, which dominated the specialty of mental medicine, sought the origins of psychic illness in lesions of the brain and central nervous system. "Visceralism," upheld by generalists, clung to the view of the ancients that psychic disorder was seated in the abdominal viscera. The d…
Sciences of appetite in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800
Conflicted Identification in the Sex Education Classroom
Despite enormous resources spent on sex education, the United States faces an epidemic of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among young people. Little research has examined the role sex educators play in alleviating or exacerbating this problem. In this study, we interviewed 50 sex educators employed by public schools throughout a Midwestern, U.S. state about their experiences in the sex education classroom. Twenty-two inter…
Hysteria and the Court Physician in Enlightenment France
Of the many reasons why hysteria exerts such great fascination over historians, none is more compelling than the fact that hysteria seems to come and go with changing cultural tempers. Although hysteria was once thought to be one of the most stable of disease entities, recent historical work has made clear that attention to, or even recognition of, hysteria has been far from constant. Michael Micale devoted a good section of his 1995 survey of th…
Anthropological Institutions in Nineteenth-Century France
Ethnology as myth
Nineteenth-century French ethnologists devoted great attention to the Peuls of West Africa because early travel reports indicated that the Peuls, although located south of the Sahara, were “European-like” in appearance and had achieved a high level of “civilization.” Written descriptions of the Peauls consisted of elementary facts, diverse interpretive schemata, and a fundamental mythic element expressed in a “white-black” dichotomy. The interpre…
Beyond Anthropology
The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students
Elizabeth A. Williams, Julie A. Lam, Michael Shively, The Impact of a University Policy on the Sexual Harassment of Female Students, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1992), pp. 50-64
Auguste Comte
Le destin du mammouth. Claudine Cohen
Re-Creating Authority in Revolutionary France
An exceptional collection of essays, at once theoretically sophisticated and empirically sound. . . . The articles are accessible . . . and allow for discussion of different approaches to historical problems.--Patricia O'Brien, University of California, IrvineThe location of authority proved transitory and elusive in France from the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 through the Third Republic. This instability, far from having a destructive effe…
Medicine in the Civic Life of Eighteenth-Century Montpellier
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 70, Number 2, Summer 1996
The Beast in the Boudoir
The Body Politic
The Physical and the Moral
Hysteria and the Court Physician in Enlightenment France
Of the many reasons why hysteria exerts such great fascination over historians, none is more compelling than the fact that hysteria seems to come and go with changing cultural tempers. Although hysteria was once thought to be one of the most stable of disease entities, recent historical work has made clear that attention to, or even recognition of, hysteria has been far from constant. Michael Micale devoted a good section of his 1995 survey of th…
La medecine a Geneve jusqu'a la fin du dix-huitieme siecle (review)
The author of this classic work in the history of medicine was a graduate of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, a practitioner in his native Geneva, and a dedicated autodidact in the history of medicine. As noted in the introduction, the work—affectionately known to locals as "le Gautier"—has long been regarded as an indispensable resource for the history of medicine in Geneva. The occasion for its reprinting was the 125th anniversary of the founding…
Neuroses of the Stomach
In the period 1800-1870, French physicians approached psychic illness (Philippe Pinel's "neurosis") within competing "cerebralist" and "visceralist" frameworks. Cerebralism, which dominated the specialty of mental medicine, sought the origins of psychic illness in lesions of the brain and central nervous system. "Visceralism," upheld by generalists, clung to the view of the ancients that psychic disorder was seated in the abdominal viscera. The d…
Of Two Lives One? Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud and the Question of Holism in Vitalist Medicine
Argument Montpellier vitalists upheld a medical perspective akin to modern “holism” in positing the functional unity of creatures imbued with life. While early vitalists focused on the human organism, Jean-Charles-Marguerite-Guillaume Grimaud investigated digestion, growth, and other physiological processes that human beings shared with simpler organisms. Eschewing modern investigative methods, Grimaud promoted a medically-grounded “metaphysics.”…
Study Protocol
Current Controlled Trials Registration No. ISRCTN35811298
Stomach and Psyche
In premodern medicine eating and digestion were often linked to psychic disturbance, yet modern "mental medicine" is generally thought to have abandoned this ancient assumption. The work of Philippe Pinel, founder of French psychiatry and advocate of the "moral treatment," has been regarded as indicative of this process, but in fact eating and digestion remained important to Pinel's understanding of the néuroses , the variety of disease within wh…
Revisiting the Worksite in Worksite Health Campaigns
This article advances the beginnings of a general theory of organizational features to aid in understanding why health campaigns that work well in one organization may be ineffectual in another organization. The physical, social, and information structures of organizations are theorized to create an interaction environment that is distinct to each organization and that influences health campaigns. To test this argument, an organ donation campaign…
Sciences of appetite in the Enlightenment, 1750–1800
How We Know What We Know”
This study replicates and extends a 2004 content analysis of three major higher education journals. The original study examined the methodological characteristics of all published research in these journals from 1996 to 2000, recommending that higher education programs adjust their graduate training to better match the heavily quantitative and statistically sophisticated journal content. We examine the same journals' content from 2006 to 2010—-on…
Medical Education in Eighteenth-century Montpellier
In October 1739 a 17-year-old Théophile de Bordeu left his home in Izeste in the Pyrenees on the journey that would take him to Montpellier for four years of medical study. During his time in Montpellier Bordeu studied with distinguished professors; learned the fundamentals of both medicine and surgery; taught private courses; and formed lasting associations with other students. Six years later, in September 1745, another to-be-famous physician, …
Conflicted Identification in the Sex Education Classroom
Despite enormous resources spent on sex education, the United States faces an epidemic of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among young people. Little research has examined the role sex educators play in alleviating or exacerbating this problem. In this study, we interviewed 50 sex educators employed by public schools throughout a Midwestern, U.S. state about their experiences in the sex education classroom. Twenty-two inter…
Mirror on the Field
Framed conceptually by gender equity, gender homophily, the contest regime of blind peer-review publishing, and the gendered nature of the quantitative–qualitative debate, this study investigated the intersection of authorship, gender, and methodological characteristics of 408 articles published from 2006 to 2010 in 3 major higher education journals. Nonbinary coding of author gender based on pronouns identified via Web searches virtually elimina…
Predicting the selection of protein-containing foods in older adults
Andreas Mayer, The Science of Walking
In recent years, historians of science have made fruitful use of an analytical perspective focused on the definition of natural phenomena as ‘objects’ of science. Andreas Mayer turns this process of objectification on its head. Tracing the history of ‘a science that does not exist’, he examines ‘theories and practices of observation and experimentation’ (p.2) in anthropology, physiology, orthopedic surgery, neurology and psychiatry, as well as li…
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