About Pat
Life in Santa Fe, New Mexico
High
desert/high risk gardening; walking surrounded by the Sangre de Christos, Jemenz, Ortiz, Cerrillos, and
Sandia Mountain ranges and the brilliant blues, scarlet, grays and whites of
magnificent sky and clouds; Tai Chi, water aerobics; drawing and acrylic
painting; journaling, memoir writing; and teaching online for the University of
Toledo.
Ten Years at the
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Dr. Murphy has been teaching for the Department of Women and Gender Studies at UT since 1999. As a co-founder of the Disability Studies Program she has been teaching disability studies courses since 2001. . Each course is 3 upper division credits on the semester system.
Courses include:
Feminism & Disability WGST4980 for Department of Women & Gender Studies, Law & Social Thought, Social Work Department, and Disability Studies.
Women and Art: Contested Territory WGST 4980 for Department of Women and Gender Studies.
Issues in Women’s Studies: WGST3010 for the Department of Women and Gender Studies
Disability Studies in the U.S. — DST 2020: (a diversity course for general education) for the Disability Studies Program
Eugenics and the Human GenomeProject: DST 4980 and MLS 6500 for the Disability Studies and Master in Liberal Studies Programs |
Leadership
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Seven years as
the director of the
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Three years as
the visiting professor of The Ability Center of Greater Toledo Disability
Studies Program, leading to the creation of a minor and a concentration in DST
in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Convener of the
Women’s Leadership Council and the Women’s Leadership Forum, leading to a
Gender Equity Study out of the Office of Institutional Research.
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Convener of the
Muslim Family & Domestic Violence Task Force, leading to training in Muslim
family issues for social service providers and the publication of a brochure in
English and Arabic.
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Convened the
first meetings of the subcommittee of the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office on
Domestic Violence Issues for Hospital Service Providers, leading to the
participation of UT Medical Center faculty and staff, the YWCA Battered Women’s
Shelter, and other community members.
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Served on the
President’s Commission on Diversity for 5 years.
Innovation
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Created an
internationally unique partnership between the University and the disability
community in
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Developed
curricula for the Disability Studies Program and an elective course in Women
& Gender Studies (Feminism and Disability).
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Created a legacy
courtyard as a continuing fundraising tool for the
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Empowered the
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Created
exhibition space for student women’s art and community women’s art in the
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Created and
hosted seven years of a brown bag series on women’s issues.
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Initiated a
campus-wide discussion of women and Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM)
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Positioned the
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Created the
Leaders-in-Residence Program at
Grants, Contracts, and
Endowments
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Grants totaling
$2,281,268 (includes Disability Studies Endowment).
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Contracts awarded
$174,000.
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Three Scholarship
Endowments created @ $10,000 each.
Awards
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Association of
Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies
and Reference and User Services
Association National Award
for the Regional Disability History
Project at the University of
University Archivist, Barbara Floyd.
Ø Milestones Education Award with my colleague, Shelley Papenfuse, given by the YWCA of Greater Toledo for our
partnership which resulted in the development of the Disability Studies Program
at the
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Outstanding
University of Toledo
Women’s Commission University of Toledo.
Ten Years in Private Practice in Rehabilitation
Counseling and Litigation Consulting:
1987-1997
(Does
JS have photo from then?)
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Served more than
1000 people with disabilities in workers compensation, personal injury,
employment discrimination, and sexual harassment cases in
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Recipient of the
first Women's Health Policy Fellowship funded by a grant from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation at the Center for Research on Women and
Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Recipient of the
1991 Most Innovative Rehabilitation Procedure Award by the National Association
of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector for work on Post-traumatic
Stress Disorder and Vocational Impairment in Abuse Survivors. Award presented at the national conference in
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Director
Education
(Photo in academic regalia)
Ø Ph.D. in Rehabilitation and Women's Studies. The Union Institute,
Ø M.S. in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling.
University.
Ø B.A. in English Literature.
Publications
Books (non-fiction)
Walking with My
Shadow: 50 Years of a Feminist
Life—memoir in progress.
Assessment
of Rehabilitative & Quality of Life Issues in Litigation (with John M.
Williams). 1998.
A
Career & Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors: Making the Connections Workbook.1996.
Making
the Connections: Women, Work & Abuse
1993..
Book Chapters
Abuse: A Blight on Our Success and Memorial Day
(1988). Triumph Over
Darkness:
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse.
Journal Articles
Overcoming
another obstacle: Documenting the
history of a community’s disabled. (with
Diane F. Britton and Barbara Floyd). The
Radical History Review, Vol. 94,
pp. 213-227. Winter 2006.
An innovative program for
domestic violence victims: A
university-community collaboration with Mojisola Tiamiyu and Marie Foxwell. Gender
and Behavior, Vol. 3, June 2005. (
Slipping the surly bonds of the medical/rehabilitation model in expert witness testimony. Review of Disability Studies, Vol. I, Issue 1, 2004.
Quality of life: A comprehensive model for rehabilitation assessment in litigation.
(with John M. Williams). Journal of Forensic Vocational Experts, (December 2000), 3:1, pp. 31-46.
Recovering
from the effects of domestic violence: Implications for welfare reform policy.
Journal of Law & Society, (April, 1997), 19:2, pp. 169-182.
Life Care Planning & a Higher Power. (1995, July-August). Inside Life Care Planning, Vol. 1(1): 2.
Taking
an abuse history in the initial evaluation (October, 1992). NARPPS
Journal & News.
Making
the connections (1992, Summer). The
Network - Women's Studies: An
Exploration. Vol. II, No. 1.
Monographs
Vocational expert witness testimony in divorce: Some problematic
issues--Gender, Work, and Divorce. Monograph #3: Professional Issues Assessment, Expert Testimony, and Catastrophic Injury. American Board of Vocational Experts. (1995/1996).
The
Edge of A Large Hole: Writings On
Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
(1994).
Essays
written for the Vocational Rehabilitation & Abuse Newsletters
The Invisibility of Women Abuse Survivors - July 1991
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - January 1992
Prostitution: A Call for Abolition - April 1993
The Silent Epidemic - The Abuse of Disabled Women - July 1993
Disability
and Abuse: Is the Holocaust Still with Us? - October 1993
Why Do Battered Women Lose Their Jobs? - January 1994
Books
- Fiction
We
Walk The Back Of The Tiger (1988).
The Naiad Press. (A novel about
the serial murder syndrome. Used by
Searching For Spring (1987). The Naiad Press. (A novel about a family
recovering from the incest trauma. Used by psychotherapists with their sexual abuse survivor clients.)
Short
Story
Nineteen-fifty-four. Word of Mouth: 150 Short-Short Stories by 90 Women Writers (1990). Edited by Irene Zahava. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press.
Reviews of
Borderlands of Blindness by Beth Omansky.
(2011). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
Inc. (2011).
Deaf People around the World:
Educational and Social Perspectives. Donald F. Moores
and Margery S. Miller (Eds.).
Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M. Schweik. New York: New York University Press. (2009).For Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. July 2009.
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius
Wilson by Susan Burch and
Hannah Joyner.
Crip
Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.
Women and
Deafness: Double Visions edited by
Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Susan Burch.
Understanding disability: Inclusion, access, diversity, and civil rights by Paul T. Jaeger and Cynthia Ann Bowman. Praeger. (2005). For Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. November 2004.
Eugenics Archive: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. http://www.eugenicisarchive.org/ . For Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. April 2004.
Love and Eugenics in the Late
Nineteenth Century by Angelique Richardson.
April 2004.
Disabilty,
self, and society by Tanya Titchkosky.
Digital disability: The social construction of disability in new media by Gerald Goggin and Christopher Newell. Rowman & Littlefield. (2003) For Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. April 2003.
Signs of resistance: American Deaf cultural history 1900 to 1942
by Susan Burch.
The Difference That
Disability Makes by Rod Michalko.
Disability Protests: Contentious Politics –
1970-1999. For Choice: Current
Reviews for Academic Libraries. June
2002.
Bernice’s Book: How Violence Traps Women in Welfare & Poverty by Jody Raphael. Reviewed for publishers, Northeastern University Press. June 1999
Swarm by Camille Roy in The Lesbian Review of Books, Spring 1999.
Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Perry and Writing Women’s Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers edited by Sudan Cahill in The Lesbian Review of Books, Winter 1995.
Alma Rose by Edith Forbes and Staying the Distance by Franci McMahon in The Lesbian Review of Books, Autumn 1994.