L A R R Y D. D E R S H

E MCurrent Position:Research Associate, Dept. of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-ColumbiaAssociate Director, Center on Rural TransitionsOffice: Rm. 114 Sociology Bldg.

University of Missouri-Columbia

Columbia, MO 65211

Tel: 573-***-****

Fax: 573-***-****

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EDUCATION:

1995 Ph.D. Rural Sociology, Department of Rural

Sociology, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural

Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211.

Dissertation: Community and Collective: Interpersonal Ties in Three Russian

Villages.

Chair: Dr. David J. O Brien

1990 M.S. Community Development, minor in International

Development, University of Missouri-Columbia,

College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Columbia, MO 65211.

Thesis: The Relationship Between Community Participation and Learning.

1988 B.A. Biblical Literature, Ozark Christian

College, Joplin, MO 64801.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:Community StudiesResearch MethodologyPersonal and Exchange NetworksRural Social & Economic ChangeRural RussiaSociology of Development

GRANTS:International Research and Exchanges Board, Research Methodology

and Quality of Life in Russia and the USA, $19,000 (1996).National Science Foundation, Social Capital, Social Networks,

and Adaptation to Change in Rural Russian Villages," Grant #4409936, $240,000

(1994).Doris and Christine Brown Fellowship International Programs,

University of Missouri-Columbia, $4,000 (1993)Dissertation Travel Research Fellowship Graduate School,

University of Missouri-Columbia, $400 (1993).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1994 - Present: Post-doctoral Research

Fellow, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri- Columbia,

on, "Social Capital, Social Networks, and Adaptation to Change in Rural

Russian Villages," supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant

#4409936).

1990- 1994: Research Assistant,

Department of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Conducted

research in the following projects: 1) "Changes in Rural

Life: A Comparative Study of Russia-USA," 2) "Availability, Access and

Utilization of Public Services in Rural Areas," 3) "Comparative Study of

Rural Service Delivery in Russia and U.S.," and 4) "Missouri Rural Community

Viability Leadership Study."

1988- 1989: Research Assistant, Department

of Community Development, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Responsibilities: data management, data analysis,

development of case study guide, editing and computer file management.

1983- 1986: Rural Community Development

Worker, U.S. Peace Corps, Solomon Islands. U.S. Peace Corps,

Honiara, Solomon Islands. Advisor to the Veru-Moli

Community Development Committee. Provided assistance to village chiefs

and area leaders in development priorities within customary guidelines

and local resources, designed and implemented adult education programs,

assisted the Solomon Island Cultural Center with cultural preservation

projects which involved photo-documenting, recording, transcribing and

translation of oral history. Spoke Bislama Pidgin-English, Foreign Service

Language rating of 3+ on a scale of 5.

CONSULTANCIES:

RUSSIA:

1991-Present: Institute for Socioeconomic

Studies of Populations (ISESP), Russian Academy of Sciences,

Moscow, Russia. Teach courses in research theory, techniques

of survey research, and use of desktop computers for data management and

analysis.

May-Aug 1997: Civic Initiatives

Program for democratic and economic reform in Russia, Save the Children,

Moscow, Russia. Coordinator and Chief Methodologist

of a rapid appraisal to assess the Needs and Capacities of the Third Sector

in Eight Oblasts of Central Russia.

Aug . 1997: Civic Initiatives

Program for democratic and economic reform in Russia, Save the Children,

Moscow, Russia. Training of NonGovernmental Organization

Resource Center staff in southern Russia (Krasnodar) and Siberia (Novisibirsk)

in the theoretical and practical approaches to rapid appraisal.

ARMENIA:

Dec.-Feb. 1997-98: Community Development

Program, Save the Children-USA, Armenia.

Coordinator and Chief Methodologist of a national

team to evaluate the Community Development Program in Armenia.

Aug-Sept.1996: Community Development

Program, Save the Children-USA, Armenia.

Evaluation Methodologist who worked with local

CD staff to develop an evaluation tool to be used to assess community development

micro-projects throughout Armenia.

GEORGIA:

Jan-June 1996: United Nations

Department of Humanitarian Affairs (UNDHA), European Community

Humanitarian Office (ECHO), and Save the Children-USA,

(SCF-USA), Georgia. Team leader of an interdisciplinary, multi-national

team to develop and conduct a country-wide assessment to identify beneficiaries

of humanitarian aid in the areas of food, nutrition, medicine, and shelter.

Report produced, "Food, Nutrition, Medical, and Nonfood Vulnerability in

Georgia, 1996: A Household Assessment."

USA:

1994 Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of

Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration in Washington, D.C.. Survey development, interviewer training,

data entry, data analysis, and co-author of final report for, "Impact of

the 1993 Floods on Drug & Alcohol Use, Mental Health, Personal and

Social Networks, and Quality of Life in Two Rural Missouri Communities.

1993 Cochran Fellowship (USA) and the Ministry of Agriculture,

Almata, Kazakhstan and Dr. Tatiana Koroleva, Agricultural Institute, Akmola,

Kazakhstan. Taught social survey principles, design, analysis, and management

of survey data.

1993 Iowa State University Extension. Designed and implemented

an evaluation of the "Left Behind in the 90's," a mental health training

program for rural community and social service professionals.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1992-1993 Rural Sociology 1, Department of Rural Sociology,

University of Missouri.

1991-1994 Research methods, survey design, data coding,

and data analysis at;

1) Institute for Socioeconomic Studies of Populations,

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

2) Representatives of the Agricultural Institute,

Akmola, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Almata, Kazakhstan.

AWARDS:Planning Committee member for the symposium Social Capital

in Russia sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.Selected as a participant, from an international competition,

for the Social Science Research Council's Fourth Annual Summer Workshop

in Underrepresented Fields in the Study of the Former Soviet Union: Sociology

and Anthropology, June 19-25, University of Michigan (1994).Superior Graduate Student Award, Dept. of Rural Sociology,

University of Missouri-Columbia (1994).Paper "Community and Collective" selected a winner, 11th

Annual Research & Creative Activities Forum, 5 March 1994, University

of Missouri-Columbia (1994).Gregory Fellowship, University of Missouri-Columbia (1991-1992).Community Development Society Student Recognition Award (199).Superior Graduate Student Achievement Award, Dept. of Community

Development University of Missouri-Columbia (1990).Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Scholarship (1988-1989).The National Dean's Honor List (1989).

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

International Network for Social Network Analysis

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers

WORKING PAPERS:

Dershem, Larry, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, and David J.

O'Brien. 1996. From Proletariat Socialism to Household

Survivalism in Rural Russia. UMC-ISESP

Working Paper.

Dershem, Larry D. with Valeri Patsiorkovski and

David J. O'Brien. 1994. Some Issues Related to Understanding

Rurality and Research in Russia. ISESP-UMC

working paper .

Dershem Larry. General Characteristic and Subgroup Differences

of Discussion Networks in Three Russian

Villages.

(CO)AUTHORED BOOK, PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS:

Dershem, Larry D. and David Gzirishvili M.D., 1998, Informal

Social Support Networks and Household

Vulnerability: Empirical Findings

from Georgia. World Development Vol. 26, No. 10.

Dershem, Larry and Valeri Patsiorkovski. 1997. The Needs

and Capacities of the Third Sector in Eight Oblasts of

Central Russia. Report to Save the

Children Federation, Moscow, Russia.

Dershem, Larry D. 1997. "Prevalence, Sources, and Types

of Informal Support in Latonovo and Mayaki." Pg.

163-198 in Services and Quality of

Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data From 1991 and 1993

Surveys. Edited by David O'Brien,

Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro Bonanno, and

Charles Timberlake. University Press

of America: New York.

Dershem, Larry D., David J. O Brien and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski.

1997. "Research Design for the Joint

Russian-American Rural Services Project:

Background to the 1991 and 1993 Surveys." Pg. 53-71 in Services

and Quality of Life in Rural Villages

in the Former Soviet Union: Data From 1991 and 1993 Surveys. Edited by

David O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake.

University Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, A Demographic Profile of the Villages in

the Study, Pg. 73-84 in Services

and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data

From

1991 and 1993 Surveys. Edited by David

O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro

Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake. University

Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, Inequalities in the Villages Prior to the

Soviet Period, Pg. 87-15 in Services

and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data

From 1991 and 1993 Surveys. Edited

by David O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro

Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake. University

Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, Village Retail Trade Services in 1991 and

1993, Pg. 115-131 in Services and

Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data From

1991

and 1993 Surveys. Edited by David

O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro Bonanno,

and Charles Timberlake. University

Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, Aavailability, Quality, Access &

Utilization of Public Services in

the Villages, Pg. 133-146 in Services and Quality of Life in Rural Villages

in the

Former Soviet Union: Data From 1991

and 1993 Surveys. Edited by David O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry

D. Dershem, Alessandro Bonanno, and

Charles Timberlake. University Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, Availability, Qualtiy, Access & Utilization

of Health Care Services, Pg. 147-160

in Services and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet

Union: Data From 1991 and 1993 Surveys.

Edited by David O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem,

Alessandro Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake.

University Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, Subjective Quality of Life and Mental

Health, Pg. 199-219 in Services and

Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data From

1991 and 1993 Surveys. Edited by David

O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro

Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake. University

Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, and Larry

D. Dershem. 1997, The Future of Services & Quality of Life

in Rural Russia, Pg. 243-250 in Services

and Quality of Life in Rural Villages in the Former Soviet Union: Data

From 1991 and 1993 Surveys. Edited

by David O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem, Alessandro

Bonanno, and Charles Timberlake. University

Press of America: New York.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski,

1997, The Transition to the Market Economy in

Rural Russia: Assertions and Findings,

East European Countryside, 3, pg.75-90.

O'Brien, David J., Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D.

Dershem and Oksana Lylova. 1997. "Household Production

and Symptoms of Stress in Post-Soviet

Russia." Rural Sociology, Vol. 61. No.4: 674-698.

O'Brien, David J., Valeri V. Patsiorkovski and Larry

D. Dershem. 1997. Rural Responses to Land Reform in

Russia: An Analysis of Household Land

Use in Belgorod, Rostov, and Tver Oblasts from 1991-1996."

Comparative Land Reform in the Former

Soviet Union and Central Europe. Edited by Stephen Wegren,

Routledge Press.

Dershem, Larry, Valeri Patsiorkovski, and David J. O'Brien.

1996. "The Use of the CES-D for Measuring

Symptoms of Depression in Three Russian

Villages." Social Indicators Research, Vol 39:89-108 .

O'Brien, David J.,Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D. Dershem

and Oksana Lylova. 1996. "Social Capital and

Adaptation to Social Change in Russian

Villages." Studies in Public Policy, Centre for the Study of Public

Policy, #263, University of Strathclyde,

Glasgow.

Dershem, Larry, David Gzirishivili M.D., Anna deRoos

MSc., and Dineke Vanekamp M.D.1996. "Food, Nutrition,

Medical, and Nonfood Vulnerability

in Georgia, 1996: A Household Assessment." Report to the United

Nations Department of Humanitarian

Affairs Office, the European Community Humanitarian Office, and Save

the Children's office in Tbilisi,

Georgia.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger, and Larry D.

Dershem. 1996 "Size of Place, Residential Stability, and

Personal Networks," Sociological Focus

Vol. 29, No.1:61-72.

O'Brien, David J., Larry D. Dershem, Rita Fleischmann,

and Andrew Raedeke. 1995. "Impact of the 1993 Floods on

Drug & Alcohol Use, Mental Health,

Personal and Social Networks, and Quality of Life in Two Rural Missouri

Communities." Division of Alcohol

and Drug Abuse, Missouri Department of Mental Health.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger and Larry D. Dershem.

1994. "Community Attachment and Depression

Among Residents in Two Rural Midwestern

Communities." Rural Sociology 59 (2):255-265.

O'Brien, David J., Valery V. Patsiorkovski, Inna Korkhova

and Larry D. Dershem. 1993. "The Future of the Village

in a Restructured Food and Agricultural

Sector in the Former Soviet Union". Agriculture and Human Values

Vol.X, No.1 (Winter):11-20.

Lackey, Alvin and Larry D. Dershem. "Process as Pedagogy:

What Community Participation Teaches."

Community Development Journal Vol.27,

No.3 (July):220-234.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Dershem, Larry. 1998. Social Capital and Mental Health:

Personal Networks and Symptoms of Depression in Rural

Russia. Symposium on Social Capital

in Rural Russia sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced

Russian Studies and the University

of Missouri, May 11-13.

Dershem, Larry, 1997. Changes in Rural Russian Personal

Support Networks, 1995-1997. Presented at the

American Association for the Advancement

of Slavic Studies 29th National Convention, November 21-24,

Seattle, Washington.

Dershem, Larry. 1996. "Russian Rural Life in Transition,

1991-1997: Integration of Statistical Analysis and Video

Documentation." Presented at the American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 28th National

Convention, November 14-17, Boston,

MA.

Dershem, Larry. 1996. Results from a 1996 Vulnerability

Assessment in the Republic of Georgia: Food and

Nonfood Issues. Presented at Central

Slavic Conference, October 3-5, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dershem, Larry. 1995. The Prevalence and Sources of Informal

Support in Two Villages in the Former Soviet

Union. Presented at the American Association

for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 27th National

Convention, October 24-26, Washington,

D.C.

Dershem, Larry. 1994. The Community/Collective Question.

Presented at the Social Science Research Council's

Fourth Annual Summer Workshop in Underrepresented

Fields in the Study of the Former Soviet Union:

Sociology and Anthropology, June 19-25,

University of Michigan.

Dershem, Larry. 1994. Community and Collective. 11th

Annual Research & Creative Activities Forum. March 5th.

University of Missouri, Columbia.

Dershem, Larry, David J. O'Brien and V.V. Patsiorkovski.

1994. "Symptoms and Correlates of Depression in

Russian and American Rural Villages."

Fifth International Conference on Social Stress. Honolulu, Hawaii, May

25-27.

O'Brien, David J., Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry D.

Dershem and Andrei Kusnetsov. 1993. "Privatization of

Services and Social Change in Rural

Areas of the Former Soviet Union." Presented at the annual meetings of

the American Association for the Advancement

of Science. Boston. February 11-16.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger and Larry D. Dershem.

1992. "Social Integration, Depression and Quality

of Life in a More or Less Viable Rural

Community." National Association for Rural Mental Health Annual

Conference, June 21-25, University

of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger and Larry D. Dershem.

1992. "Size of Place and Regional Differences in

Personal Social Networks". Presented

at the Annual Rural Sociological Society meeting, Aug. 16-19,

Pennsylvania State University.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger and Larry D. Dershem.

1992. The Social Networks of Rural Residents.

Presented at Annual Rural Sociological

Society meeting.

O'Brien, David J., Edward W. Hassinger and Larry D. Dershem.

1991. The Density of Social Network Ties

Between Leaders in More and

Less Viable Rural Communities. Prepared for Midwest Sociological Society,

DesMoines, Iowa.

O'Brien, David J., Valery V. Patsiorkovski, Inna Korkhova

and Larry D. Dershem. 1991. The Future of the Village

in a Restructured Food and Agricultural

Sector in the Former Soviet Union. Presented at the University of

Missouri, Columbia, MO. Conference

Topic:Toward the Development of a Comparative Research Agenda on

the Rural Village.

Dershem, Larry. Examining the Relationship Between Community

Participation and Learning. 1989. Prepared for

the Annual Meeting of the Sociological

Practice Association, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, MI.

Conference Topic: Sociological Practice

Initiatives--Making Communities Work.

INDEPENDENT TRAVEL EXPERIENCE:

Armenia, Azerbaijan, American Samoa, Austria, Belgium,

Bulgaria, Canada, China and Tibet, England, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Guam,

India, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Puerto

Rico, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Turkey, and

the former Yugoslavia.

OVERSEAS LIVING EXPERIENCE:

Solomon Islands from 1983-1987 in the rural village of

Komuvaolu, weather coast, Guadalcanal.

Russia: June of 1992, June - October of 1993; June-September

1995, June-August 1996, May-September 1997

Tbilisi, Georgia: January 8-April 20, 1996.

Yerevan, Armenia: August 11-September 12, 1996, Dec.

1997-February 1998

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Fluent in Bislama of the Solomon Islands.

Beginning Russian

STATISTICAL SKILLS:

ANOVA, correlation, multiple regression, logistic regression,

factor analysis, alpha reliability, structural equation modeling.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

IBM: DOS, Windows, SPSSPC+, SpssWin 8.0, Word Perfect,

Norton Utilities, MSWord

Macintosh: virtually all word processing, statistical,

and graphic programs.

CMS-VMB: SPSSx

Internet (i.e., E-mail, Gopher, FTP, Mosaic, Netscape).

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