1. KATIE NICOLE MCINTYRE
Department of Sociology University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heritage Hall Building 460E 1720 2nd
Avenue South
1401 University Boulevard Birmingham, AL 35233
(678) 910-1311 kmreece@uab.edu
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Field of Study: Medical Sociology
2013 M.A., University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
Field of Study: Sociology
Thesis: Defining Disability: An Institutional Ethnography on Disability
Determination for People with HIV/AIDS
2010 B.S., Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Field of Study: Medical Sociology (Minor in Gerontology)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Medical Sociology
• Medicalization
• Health Care Organization
• Drug use and abuse
• HIV/AIDS
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Conference Presentations
2015 “Pink Depression: Explaining the Construction of Women’s Mental
Health and Treatment.” Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2015 “Selling or Helping? Prescribing Gender to Women, Wives and Mothers
through DTCA” With Linda Treiber. Southern Sociological Society (SSS)
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2013 “Defining Disability: An Institutional Ethnography on Disability
Determination for People with HIV/AIDS.” Society for the Study of
Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, New York, NY

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2012 Research Proposal for “Defining Disability: An Institutional Ethnography
on Disability Determination for People with HIV/AIDS.” Southern
Sociological Association (GSA) Annual Meeting, Dahlonega, GA
2011 “Dr. Internet Will See You Now” A Content Analysis of Prescription
Drug Information Online.” Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2010 “Prescribing the Good Wife: A Content Analysis of Drug Advertising in
Southern Living Magazine.” With Linda Treiber. Southern Sociological
Scoiety (SSS) Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
January 2015 – Research Assistant
December 2015 Kidney Study, Research assistant to Dr. JD Daw, University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Duties: conducting interviews/surveys,
transcription, coding data.
August 2014 – Research Assistant
December 2014 Housing study, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Dr.
Paul
Luken. Duties: Conducting and transcribing interviews.
August 2012 – Principle Investigator
July 2013 Disability Determination Study, University of West Georgia, Carrollton,
GA. Duties: Developing and researching a study to examine the disability
determination process for persons with HIV/AIDS.
August 2011 – Research Assistant
July 2012 Same Sex Parenting Study, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
Duties: recoding data and analyzing data.
Summer 2010 Co-Principal Investigator
Prescribing the Good Wife, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Duties: Conducting research, coding data, developing methods and
researching prior to study.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 Graduate Student, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Popular Culture
2014 Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Harry Hamilton and Dr. Christopher Biga
Duties: facilitating lectures, grading exams, recording and editing lectures

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2013 – 2014 Adjunct Instructor, Kennesaw State University
Principles of Sociology
Social Issues: Perspectives in Sociology
Technology and Society
2012 Teaching Practicum, University of West Georgia
Theories in Sociology, Dr. Neema Noori
Duties: Creating syllabus, grading papers, creating projects, co-teaching
lectures, solo lectures.
2010 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Kennesaw State University
Research Methods, Prof. Ellen Ballard
Duties: Teaching labs on basic use of SPSS
HONORS AND AWARDS
2012 – 2013 Disability Determination Small Grant Program, Policy Research Inc
Competitive grant to research the Social Security Administration’s
Disability programs, awarded $10,000
2013 William T. Simons Award Department of Sociology, University of
West Georgia
2013 Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
REFERENCES
Dr. Patricia Drentea, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, University of Alabama-Birmingham (pdrentea@uab.edu)
Dr. Joseph D. Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alabama-
Birmingham (jdwolfe@uab.edu)
Dr. Jonathan Daw, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alabama-
Birmingham (jddaw@uab.edu)
Dr. Paul Luken, Department Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
West Georgia (pluken@westga.edu)
Dr. Linda Treiber, Assistant Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal
Justice, Kennesaw State University (ltreiber@kennesaw.edu)