Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion and
Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 201
Orono, ME 04469
207/581-1469 (V)
207/581-1084 (V/TTY)
800/203-6957 (V/TTY)
207/581-1231 (Fax)
Project Affiliations:
Specialty Areas:
- Legitimacy theory
- Disability as diversity
- Universal access and egalitarianism
- Research and evaluation methods
Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research and Public Service:
- Disability as diversity
- Universal web access
- Design theory applied to identity
- Human rights
Representative Publications:
Books and Book Chapters:
DePoy, E. & Gilson S.F. (in press). Designing university techscapes:
An inter-organizational universal design collaboration to advance
equality of participation in university organizations. In J. Salmons and
L. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and
Organizational Synergy.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (in press). Healing the disjuncture: Social work
disability practice. In K.M. Sowers & C.N. Dulmus (Series Editors) &
B.W.White (Vol. Ed.), Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social
Welfare: Vol. 1. The Profession of Social Work (pp. X-X). Hoboken, NJ:
Wiley.
Gilson, S. F., & DePoy, E. (in press). Explanatory Legitimacy: A model
for disability policy development and analysis. In I. Colby (Ed.).
Social Work Practice and Social Policy and Policy Practice (pp. X-X).
Hoboken, NJ; John Wiley & Sons.
DePoy, E. & Gilson, S.F. (2008). Evaluation practice. Boston, MA: Taylor
and Francis.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2007). The human experience: Description,
explanation, and judgment. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gilson, S. & DePoy, E. (2006). Explanatory legitimacy: A theory of
diversity applied to disability. In G. Albrect, Encyclopedia of
Disability, Thousand Oaks, Sage.
DePoy, E. & Gitlin, L. (2005). Introduction to research: Multiple
strategies for health and human services 3rd ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S.F. (2004). Rethinking Disability: Principles for
Professional and Social Change. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks-Cole.
Invited and Peer Reviewed Articles:
Gilson, S.F. & DePoy, E., (2007/2007). Da Vinci’s ill-fated design
legacy: Homogenization and standardization. International Journal of the
Humanities, 4, http://www.Humanities-Journal.com
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2007). The Bell-Shaped Curve: Alive, well and
living in diversity rhetoric. The International Journal of Diversity in
Organizations, Communities and Nations.
Gilson, S. F., & DePoy, E. (in press). Geographic analysis for the
social sciences. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences, 1.
DePoy, E. & Gilson S. (2006). Universal web access: An intelligent web
interface. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society,
1, 128-131.
DePoy, E., & Gilson, S.F. (2005/2006). Moving beyond nomothetic
category: Diversity as symmetry. International Journal of the
Humanities, 4, http://www.Humanities-Journal.com
Gilson, S.F. & DePoy, E., (2005/2006). Reinventing atypical bodies in
art, literature and technology. International Journal of Technology,
Knowledge and Society, 3, 7, http://www.Technology-Journal.com.
DePoy, E. & Gilson, S.F. (2005/2006). Universal access technology:
Advancing the civil right to information literacy. International Journal
of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 1, http://www.Technology-Journal.com.
DePoy, E. (2005). Assistive technology: A blessing or a curse.
Psychosocial Process.
DePoy, E. & MacDuffie, H. (2004). Force Field Analysis: A model for
promoting adolescent involvement in their own health care. Journal of
Health Promotion Practice, 5, 3, 306-313.
DePoy, E. (2004). Universal health literacy: An idea whose time should
have come? Psychosocial Process, 17, 49-50.
Gilson, S. F., & DePoy, E. (2004). A model of self-determination,
choice, advocacy, and self-advocacy. Journal of Social Work in
Disability and Rehabilitation, 3, 4, 3-17.
Cramer, E.P., Gilson, S.F., & DePoy, E. (2004). Women with disabilities
and experiences of abuse. Special issue on women. Journal of Human
Behavior in the Social Environment, 7, 183-201.
Gilson, S. & DePoy, E. (2004). Disability, Identity, and Cultural
Diversity. Review of Disability Studies, 1(1), 16-23.
Professional Associations:
- L'ecole Libre des Haute Etudes
- American Public Health Association
- Human Development and Capability
Association
- Society for Disability Studies
