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Kate is a sociologist by training and is interested in medical and mental health sociology. She has published in a wide variety of sub-disciplines in sociology, including papers about dating and social meme theory, gender and cancer, mental health, culturally relevant teaching, and the history of medical technology. Her most recent publication appears in the journal Culture, Medicine, and Society." She is currently working on a book about AI and digital surveillance technologies and persons with psychotic disorders. In 2024, she published an edited volume about medical technology and society. She owns a small consulting business that focuses on helping early-career scholars who are either finishing their dissertations and their first publishing experience, or working with newly appointed assistant professors who are engaging in their first projects after their dissertation. She is the editor of a volume about medical technology and society. She also was a contributor to an open-access textbook series for undergraduates, and teaches sociology classes for undergraduates and graduate students ranging from Intro, to advanced courses in mental health sociology, gender, disability, and classical and mid-century sociological theory. She attended a small liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon for her undergraduate degree, and did all her requirements for her PhD at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and finished her dissertation at Portland State University in Portland.
Her current research interests take two forms. The first is an interest in medical technology and medical surveillance and the "correction" of deviant bodies. Secondly, she is interested in diagnostic creep and nosology, especially as it relates to Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. She also coauthors publications with her clients, so has had an opportunity to explore many fields far-flung from her own interests.
Current research areas:
Bipolar Disorder and the doctor-patient relationship
The phenomenology of psychosis
History of deaf technology
Advanced pharmacology technology
Recent scholarly activity:
BOOKS
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. (ed) Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal. Washington DC: Lexington
ARTICLES
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Psych Unit Gangs: An Autoethnography” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-024-09866-4
Burrows, Kathryn. 2023. “The History and Present of Hearing Aid & Cochlear Implant Advertising” Advertising & Society Quarterly. 24(2).
Burrows, Kathryn. 2022. “A Not-so Short History of Deaf Technology” London Journal of Humanities and Social Science. 22(15). (invited)
Hernandez, Awilda, and Kathryn Burrows. 2021. “Implementing Culturally Relevant Teaching in the Classroom.” Open Journal of Leadership 10, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.104020
Burrows, Kathryn. 2013. “Age Preferences in Dating Advertisements by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals: From Sociobiological to Sociological Explanations.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 42(2): 203-211.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2010. “Warriors and Survivors: Constructing the Gendered Cancer Patient as Hero.” Gender & Health. 8: 14-36
BOOK CHAPTERS
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Finding a Home in Independent Scholarship.” NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars. Edited by Amanda Haste and Linda Baines. South Bend, IN
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Abilify MyCite and the Social Control of Digital Pills.” In Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal. Edited by Kathryn Burrows. Washington: Lexington
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Who Feels OK? The Social Problem of Mental Illness.” In Social Problems: Inequality and Interdependence. Chemeketa Press.
Burrows, Kathryn and Kimberly Puttman. 2024. “Who Gets Well? Social Determinants of Health.” In Social Problems: Inequality and Interdependence. Chemeketa Press.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2023. “The Cochlear Implant Decision: How Parents Decide to Implant Their Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants.” In Social Factors, Health Care inequities and Vaccination (Research in the Sociology of Healthcare, Volume 40). Edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2010. “What Epidemic? The Social Construction of Bipolar Epidemics.” In Advances in Medical Sociology: Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches, edited by Ananya Mukherjea. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
COMMENTARIES
Burrows, Kathryn, and Awilda Hernandez. 2023. “Social Death While Holding onto One’s Human Rights on New York City’s Streets” Journal of Urban Health. 10.1007/s11524-023-00761-8
Kutlucinar, Katrin, and Kathryn Burrows. 2022. “Linking Scientific Research to the Bipolar Patient.” Bipolar Disorders. 24: 707-708
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Burrows, Kathryn, and Allan Horwitz. 2014. “Bipolar Disorder.” In Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-Z Guide, edited by Andrew Scull and Geoffrey J. Golson. Los Angeles: Sage.
POLICY REPORTS
Rowe, Brad and Kathryn Burrows. 2024. “Cannabis Potency Tax Report.”
PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Bahmanyar, Shahrzad, Reem Abd El-Razek, Vanooshe Nazari, Sadegh Jafari, Mohsen Mahmoodzedeh and Kathryn Burrows. 2024. “Framing the Israel War in Gaza.” The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. Bangkok. Thailand, August 2024
IN PROCESS
Burrows, Kathryn and Atomic Academic. “The Societal Shaping of Deaf Technological Advances.” (Forthcoming- to be published on Atomic Academic)
Nykiel-Bailey, Sydney, Kathryn Burrows, Bianca Szafarowncz and Rachel W. Moquin. “Guiding the Way: The Roles of Mentoring, Advising, and Coaching in Graduate Medical Education.” (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Medical Education.)
Kutlucinar, Katrin, and Kathryn Burrows. “Consequences of Eliminating Prepubertal Bipolar Disorder as a Valid Diagnosis.” (Under Review at Bipolar Disorders) (invited)
Burrows, Kathryn. “Mad Academics: Mental Health Autoethnography.” (Under Review at Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses) (invited)
Winniger, Michael et al. and Kathryn Burrows. “Efficacy and Safety of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in the Elderly (The I-70 Study) A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial” (Under Review at Heart Rhythm O2).
Giannopoulos, Nadia, Serene D. Pifer and Kathryn Burrows. “Attract, Recruit, Retain: Creation of a Systemic Pipeline for Veteran Talent to Address Current and Emergent Labor Shortages.”
Mitchell, Allison, Sydney Nykiel-Bailey, Kathryn Burrows, and Rachel W. Moquin. “Novel Anesthesiology Residency Intern Curriculum: Design Process and Steps to Implementation.”
Burrows, Kathryn. Monitored Madness: How Technology Shapes Psychiatric Control
Kohler, Stefan and Kathryn Burrows. “Is That Virus Sneering at Me? The 101 of Coronavirus Animations”
Burrows, Kathryn and Awilda Hernandez. “Perspectives From the Frontlines: The Co-Responder Model for Mental Health Crises”
Burrows, Kathryn. “Review of Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood, by Patrick Hahn”
Recent publications:
BOOKS
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. (ed) Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal. Washington DC: Lexington
ARTICLES
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Psych Unit Gangs: An Autoethnography” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-024-09866-4
Burrows, Kathryn. 2023. “The History and Present of Hearing Aid & Cochlear Implant Advertising” Advertising & Society Quarterly. 24(2).
Burrows, Kathryn. 2022. “A Not-so Short History of Deaf Technology” London Journal of Humanities and Social Science. 22(15). (invited)
Hernandez, Awilda, and Kathryn Burrows. 2021. “Implementing Culturally Relevant Teaching in the Classroom.” Open Journal of Leadership 10, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2021.104020
Burrows, Kathryn. 2013. “Age Preferences in Dating Advertisements by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals: From Sociobiological to Sociological Explanations.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 42(2): 203-211.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2010. “Warriors and Survivors: Constructing the Gendered Cancer Patient as Hero.” Gender & Health. 8: 14-36
BOOK CHAPTERS
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Finding a Home in Independent Scholarship.” NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars. Edited by Amanda Haste and Linda Baines. South Bend, IN
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Abilify MyCite and the Social Control of Digital Pills.” In Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal. Edited by Kathryn Burrows. Washington: Lexington
Burrows, Kathryn. 2024. “Who Feels OK? The Social Problem of Mental Illness.” In Social Problems: Inequality and Interdependence. Chemeketa Press.
Burrows, Kathryn and Kimberly Puttman. 2024. “Who Gets Well? Social Determinants of Health.” In Social Problems: Inequality and Interdependence. Chemeketa Press.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2023. “The Cochlear Implant Decision: How Parents Decide to Implant Their Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants.” In Social Factors, Health Care inequities and Vaccination (Research in the Sociology of Healthcare, Volume 40). Edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Burrows, Kathryn. 2010. “What Epidemic? The Social Construction of Bipolar Epidemics.” In Advances in Medical Sociology: Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches, edited by Ananya Mukherjea. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
COMMENTARIES
Burrows, Kathryn, and Awilda Hernandez. 2023. “Social Death While Holding onto One’s Human Rights on New York City’s Streets” Journal of Urban Health. 10.1007/s11524-023-00761-8
Kutlucinar, Katrin, and Kathryn Burrows. 2022. “Linking Scientific Research to the Bipolar Patient.” Bipolar Disorders. 24: 707-708
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Burrows, Kathryn, and Allan Horwitz. 2014. “Bipolar Disorder.” In Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-Z Guide, edited by Andrew Scull and Geoffrey J. Golson. Los Angeles: Sage.
POLICY REPORTS
Rowe, Brad and Kathryn Burrows. 2024. “Cannabis Potency Tax Report.”
PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Bahmanyar, Shahrzad, Reem Abd El-Razek, Vanooshe Nazari, Sadegh Jafari, Mohsen Mahmoodzedeh and Kathryn Burrows. 2024. “Framing the Israel War in Gaza.” The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. Bangkok. Thailand, August 2024
Forthcoming research:
IN PROCESS
Burrows, Kathryn and Atomic Academic. “The Societal Shaping of Deaf Technological Advances.” (Forthcoming- to be published on Atomic Academic)
Nykiel-Bailey, Sydney, Kathryn Burrows, Bianca Szafarowncz and Rachel W. Moquin. “Guiding the Way: The Roles of Mentoring, Advising, and Coaching in Graduate Medical Education.” (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Medical Education.)
Kutlucinar, Katrin, and Kathryn Burrows. “Consequences of Eliminating Prepubertal Bipolar Disorder as a Valid Diagnosis.” (Under Review at Bipolar Disorders) (invited)
Burrows, Kathryn. “Mad Academics: Mental Health Autoethnography.” (Under Review at Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses) (invited)
Winniger, Michael et al. and Kathryn Burrows. “Efficacy and Safety of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in the Elderly (The I-70 Study) A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial” (Under Review at Heart Rhythm O2).
Giannopoulos, Nadia, Serene D. Pifer and Kathryn Burrows. “Attract, Recruit, Retain: Creation of a Systemic Pipeline for Veteran Talent to Address Current and Emergent Labor Shortages.”
Mitchell, Allison, Sydney Nykiel-Bailey, Kathryn Burrows, and Rachel W. Moquin. “Novel Anesthesiology Residency Intern Curriculum: Design Process and Steps to Implementation.”
Burrows, Kathryn. Monitored Madness: How Technology Shapes Psychiatric Control
Kohler, Stefan and Kathryn Burrows. “Is That Virus Sneering at Me? The 101 of Coronavirus Animations”
Burrows, Kathryn and Awilda Hernandez. “Perspectives From the Frontlines: The Co-Responder Model for Mental Health Crises”
Burrows, Kathryn. “Review of Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood, by Patrick Hahn”
Other activities:
Acting President, Research & Conversations about Bipolar Disorder, Inc 2024
State Trainer, NAMI Oregon 2024-present
Editor, H-Scholar (an H-Net network) 2023-present Editor, Health and Medicine, AtomicAcademic 2023-present
Affiliates Liaison, National Coalition of Independent Scholars 2023-present
Director of Education & Networking/Board, R&CABD, Inc. 2023-2024
Speaker, National Alliance for Mental Illness 2023-present
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