Annette Schwabe

Biography

Annette Schwabe, a first-generation college student, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech and hearing sciences and served for seven years as a clinical therapist with adults with neurogenic disorders in Seattle, New York City, Connecticut, and Ohio.

While working on her Ph.D. in sociology, Dr. Schwabe was employed as a data analyst at the Florida Department of Health in the Bureau of Chronic Disease. From 2002-2004, she worked on an NSF grant on adolescent mental health at Florida State University and joined the faculty in the Department of Sociology in 2004. She has served as the faculty mentor for over 50 undergraduate research projects and as university faculty advisor for seven on-campus organizations. Dr. Schwabe served as Associate Dean in Undergraduate Studies from 2015-2022, first as the Director of the FSU Liberal Studies program and then as Director of the honors program. Currently, she serves as a teaching faculty member in the Public Health Program and teaches in the Department of Sociology.

Education

PhD, Sociology
Kent State University

Master of Science, Speech and Hearing Sciences
University of Washington

Bachelor of Science, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Minnesota State University

Courses Taught

Medical Sociology

Methods of Social Research

Social Problems

Population and Society

Sociology of Sex and Gender

Special Topics course: The Sociology of Lifestyle

Special Topics course: Life is a Rollercoaster: The Sociology of Stress

Awards & Honors

2020                  Phi Beta Kappa.

2017                   Transformation Through Teaching award.

2015                   Phi Beta Phi, FSU Chapter.

2010-2015        Nominee, FSU University Teaching Award (5-year rule ineligible)

2014                  Certificate of Appreciation for Service in Online Teaching, ODL, Florida State University

2014                  University Distinguished Teacher award, Florida State University

2009                 University Teaching award, Florida State University,

2009                 Best Teacher award, Department of Sociology.

2012 & 2013    Student Disability Resource Center Faculty Accessibility award nominee.

2009-2015       Atlantic Coast Conference Teaching Scholar.

1994                  Graduate Student Paper Award. Society for the Study of Social Problems.

1993                  Lillian Friedman Fellowship Award. Kent State University Graduate College,

1993                  Distinguished Paper in Social Theory. Kent State University Department of Sociology

1993                  Pi Gamma Mu, The International Honor Society in Social Science.

1991                   Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociological Society.

1986                  Editor’s Award for Article of Highest Merit in the journal Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.

Selected Publications

James D. Orcutt and Annette M. Schwabe. 2012. “Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Deviant Drinking: A

Longitudinal Application of Social Structure and Social Learning Theory.”  Sociological Spectrum, 32:20-36.

Schwabe, Annette and Jan Kodras.  2000.  “Race, Class, and Psychological Distress:

Contextual Variations across Four American Communities.”  Health:  An Interdisciplinary

     Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 4:234-260.

Roetzheim, Richard, Naazneen Pal, Colleen Wilson, Lydia Voti, John Z. Ayanian, Annette Schwabe

and Jeffrey P. Krischer. 1999.  “The Effects of Health Insurance and Race-Ethnicity on the Early

Detection of Cancer.” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 91:1409-1415.

Rushing, Beth and Annette Schwabe.  1995.  “Health Effects of Role Context: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Comparisons.”  Sex Roles, 33:59-77.

Schwabe, Annette.  1995.  “International Dependency and Health: A Comparative Case Study of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.” Pp. 292-310 in Global Perspectives on Health Care, edited by Eugene Gallagher and Janardan Subedi. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice Hall

Schwabe, Annette., Olswang, Lesley, & Kriegsman, Elinor. 1986. “Requests for Information: Linguistic, Cognitive, Pragmatic, and Environmental Variables.” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 17, 38-55.