Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions

Elizabeth Norman

Professor

Elizabeth Norman

Phone: 212-998-5412
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Presentations

  • June 2007. Georgia Women Who Served Their Country in World War II.Georgia State University, Library Women's Collection. Annual Diana L. Fowlkes Lecture.
  • November 2006, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C. “Women in Combat.”
  • November 2006 “ Health Care in Time of War.” UMDNJ Trauma Conference. Keynote Speaker.
  • November 2006. Holmdel, New Jersey. “Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.” New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
  • October 2005. Park City, Utah. “We Band of Angels.” Utah State Nurses Association Annual Convention. Opening Keynote Speaker.
  • September 2005. Wilmington, Delaware. “Health Care in Times of War and Terrorism.” Christiana Health Care System Leadership Conference. Opening Keynote Speaker
  • July 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. “Teaching about Health Care and War.
  • May 2005. Danvers, Massachusetts. “We Band of Angels.” Northeast Hospital System. Keynote Speaker.
  • March 2005. Long Beach, California. “We Band of Angels.” Long Beach Memorial Medical Center 2nd Annual Heart of Nursing Conference. Opening Keynote Speaker.
  • February 2005. Monterey, California. “We Band of Angels.” Association of California Health Care Leaders, 27th Annual Conference. Opening Keynote Speaker.
  • September 2004. Hanover, New Hampshire. “Nursing in Times of Terrorism and War.” Dartmouth College-Hitchcock Medical Center. Opening Keynote speaker.
  • May 2004. Rochester, Minnesota. “We Band of Angels.” Mayo Clinic. Keynote Speaker.

Media Activities

*BBC World News."Imogene Kennedy Schmidt: WWII POW."Interviewed March 12, 2007 *WCTC-AM."Advocating for our Nations Veterans."One-hour radio show. February 4, 2007. *The History Channel, "History in Focus: The Flags of Our Fathers." Interviewed on combat photography in the Pacific Theater and the Battle of Iwo Jima. October 15, 2006. *FOX Network News. "War Stories with Oliver North." On-air commentary on nurses in war. March 21, 2004 *CNN, "Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff." Interviewed on women who served in Vietnam.

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions 1986
    Dissertation: “Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.”
  • M.A. New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions 1977
  • B.S. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 1973

Awards

  • 2004 : Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Hall of Distinguished Alumni Award.
  • 2003 : University of California San Francisco, Commencement Speaker.
  • 2001 : Indiana State University, Distinguished Lecturer, Terra Haute, Indiana.
  • 2001 : University of Virginia. Eighth Annual Agnes Dillon Award.
  • 2001 : AACN. Seventh Annual John P. McGovern Award
  • 1999 : Lavinia L. Dock Award for Outstanding Historical Scholarship. AAHN.
  • 1999 : AAN. National Media Award.
  • 1995 : International Public Print Media Award, Sigma Theta Tau.
  • 1993 : Certificate of Appreciation. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
  • 1992 : Book of the Year. American Journal of Nursing
  • 1990 : Official Commendation for Military Nursing Research. Department of the Army.

Publications

  • Curriculum Vitae (view)
  • Norman, M., Norman E., Surrender: The Bataan Death March and Its Long Aftermath.New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. Anticipated publication May 2008.
  • Norman, E. (2000). We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Atria Publishing. In print 2007. Hardcover, 1999, Random House, New York.
  • Norman, E. (1990). Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In print, 2007.
  • Norman E. (2001). “The Nurses Captured on Bataan.” In Brian Lamb (Ed.). Booknotes, Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country New York: Public Affairs, 251-258. In print 2007
  • Norman, E. (2006). "The Challenge of Historical Research." In Geri Lo-Biondo-Wood & Judi Haber (Eds.)Research Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilization. Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania: C.V. Mosby, 436-437.
  • Norman, E., & Angell, D. (1999). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of Australian Nurses. NHR 7, 97-112.
  • Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1995). How Did They All Survive? An Analysis of American Nurses' Experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps. NHR, 3, 105-127.
  • Norman, E. (1995). After the Casualties: The Effect of Working in the Vietnam War on Nurses' Professional Identity and Career Decisions. The Journal of Military Nursing and Research, 1 (3), 25-29.
  • dePaula Lima, E., Norman, E., & dePaula Lima A. (2005). Translation and Adaptation of the Social Support Network Inventory in Brazil. JNS, 37(3), 258-260.

Research Interests

  • long term outcomes of trauma and war
  • american professions
  • employing new technology in qualitative methods
  • historical inquiry
  • cross-cultural historical research
  • qualitative methodologies
  • women in the military
  • prisoners of war

Courses

  • E55.2071 History of the Helping Professions
  • E81.2155 Professional Writing: Public Health
  • E33.1210 Understanding Food in History
  • E10.2138 Writing Empiric Research