Estelle Disch

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 18
Telephone: 617-287-6256
Email: estelle.disch@umb.edu

Research

Gender, human services, multicultural services, clinical sociology. Coordinating and assessing First Year Seminar Program at UMass Boston. Research on sexual abuse by health and mental health care professionals and clergy.

Representative Publications

Disch, E., Editor. (2009). Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, Fifth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Earlier editions: 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006).

Disch, E. (2006). Sexual Victimization and Revictimization of Women by Professionals: Client Experiences and Implications for Subsequent Treatment. Women & Therapy, 29 (1&2),41-61.

Disch, E. (2001). Sex in the Consulting Room, the Examining Room, and the Sacristy: Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Professionals. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 71 (2), 204-217.

Disch, E. (2004). "Still Cannot Solve It: Engaging ESOL Students in Classroom Conversation." Vivian Zamel and Ruth Spack (Eds.). Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms (197-205). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Disch, E. (1993). "The politics of curricular change: Establishing a Diversity Requirement at the University of Massachusetts at Boston." In Thompson, B. and Tyagi, S. Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (195-213). Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press.

Billson, J. and Disch, E. (1991). "Empowering women: A Clinical Sociology Model for Working with Women in Groups." Rebach, H. and Bruhn, J., Eds. Handbook of Clinical Sociology (323-343). New York: Plenum.