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Gelya Frank, Professor
(Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Anthropology)

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Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Clinical Science Center, Room 133
2250 Alcazar Street
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9068
Phone: (323) 442-2885
E-mail: gfrank@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gfrank/

Research

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Bio

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Education

B.A. Anthropology, Summa Cum Laude 1973
University of California, Los Angeles

M.A. Anthropology 1975
University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D. Anthropology 1981
University of California, Los Angeles

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Recent Publications

Langness, L.L., and Frank, Gelya. Lives: An Anthropological Approach to Biography.
Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp, 1981.

Frank, Gelya. Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and
Being Female in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

2002 Frank, Gelya, Leslie J. Blackhall, Sheila T. Murphy, Vicki Michel, Stanley P. Azen, Haydee Mabel Preloran, and Carole H. Browner. Maintaining Hope Yet Anticipating Death: Disclosure Preferences and Narrative Practices among Elderly Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 11 (2): 117-126.

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Courses Taught

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Awards and Honors

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Los Angeles 1974

Regents Intern Fellow, UCLA 1974-1978

Regents Undergraduate Fellow, UCLA 1973

Graduate Woman of the Year, Association of Academic Women, UCLA 1981

Fellow, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics 1999

Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2000

Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
Society for Medical Anthropology/American Anthropological Association 2000

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award 2001

Phi Kappa Phi, All University Honor Society, 2001
University of Southern California Chapter (Faculty Nomination)

Golden Key International Honor Society 2002
Honorary Faculty Member (Student Nomination)

National Endowment for the Humanities 2002-2003
Resident Scholar
School for American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Professional Memberships

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