CONTACT INFORMATION / CURRICULUM VITAE / OLD ORDER AMISH PUBLICATIONS
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Dr. Jill Korbin
ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
- DIRECTOR, SCHUBERT CENTER FOR CHILD STUDIES
- CO-DIRECTOR, CHILDHOOD STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM AND MINOR
Jill E. Korbin earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Korbin is a cultural and medical anthropologist. Her awards include the Margaret Mead Award (1986) from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology; a Congressional Science Fellowship (1985-86) through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development; and the Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University. Korbin served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. She is Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and Co-Director of the Childhood Studies Program.
Korbin teaches a range of courses from introductory anthropology to upper division and graduate courses in medical and psychological anthropology and on child and family issues from an anthropological perspective. Korbin has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment, including her edited book, Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, University of California Press), which was the first volume to examine the relationship of culture and child maltreatment. She has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment, on cross-cultural childrearing and child maltreatment, on health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population, and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being.
PUBLICATIONS:
- A full list of publications is available in Dr. Korbin's Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
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| OFFICE LOCATION: | Mather Memorial Building |  |
| MAILING ADDRESS: | 11220 Bellflower Road | |
| Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7125 | ||
| Room 210 | ||
| TELEPHONE: | 216.368.2278 OR 216.368.4413 | |
| E-MAIL ADDRESS: | jill.korbin@case.edu | |