Dr. Wigg

Dr. Johanna Wigg, PhD,
Social Gerontologist

President, The Vicarage by the Sea, Inc.
9 Vicarage Lane
Harpswell, Maine 04079
Home: (207) 833-6178
Office: (207) 833-5480
Cell: (207) 671-0847
E-mail: jwigg@thevicaragebythesea.com

Dr. Johanna Wigg, co-founder of The Vicarage by the Sea

Education

Brandeis University

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology. 2007 Dissertation: “A Culture of Dementia: Examining Interpersonal Relationships Between Elders Living with Dementia.”
Committee: Peter Conrad (chair), Sarah Lamb, Stefan Timmermans, Sara Shostak
Areas of Concentration: Social Gerontology, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory

Brandeis University

M.A. Joint degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies. 2001

Mount Holyoke College

B.A. Cum Laude. 1993
Major: Women’s Studies

Teaching Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor: Bowdoin College

Spring 2008 – Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101) Aging and Society (SOC 231)

Adjunct Lecturer: Bowdoin College

Spring 2009 – Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
Fall 2007 – Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
Spring 2007 – Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)

Lecturer: Bradford College

Fall 1997 – Social Problems (SOC 181), Gender and Society (Soc 361)
Fall 1996 – Complex Organizations (SOC 345)

Estella, wearing a purple jacket and red pants watering the ground with a silver can.

Publications

“From Demedicalization to Renaturalization: Dementia and Nature in Harmony,” with Peter Whitehouse, Danny George and Brett Joseph, in Mary Marshall and Jane Gilliard, eds., Fresh Air on My Face: Enabling People with Dementia to Reconnect with Nature, Jessica Kingsley Press,
2012.

“Liberating the Wanderers: Redefining Wandering by Using Technology to Unlock Doors for Those Living with Dementia,” in Kelly Joyce and Meika Loe, eds., Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness Through an Ageing, Science, and Technology Lens, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

“Liberating the Wanderers: Redefining Wandering by Using Technology to Unlock Doors for Those Living with Dementia,” Sociology of Health and Illness, 32: 288-303, 2010.

“Intimacy among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacy among Institutionalized Elders with Mid to Late Stage Dementia,” in Harry Blatterer and Julia Glass, eds., Times of Our Lives: Making Sense of Growing Up and Growing Old, Inter Disciplinary Press, 2010
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/.

Presentations

The Tom Kitwood Memorial Address: Beyond the myth – imagining the new worlds of dementia, with Peter Whitehouse and Danny George. The 5th UK Dementia Congress, Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, England, November, 2010.

Segregation versus Desegregation among the Demented: Impacts of Transitions on the Social Identities of Elders Living with Dementia. The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2010.

Intimacy Among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacy among Elders with Mid to Late Stage Dementia. 1st Global Conference: Times of Our Lives: Growing Up and Growing Old, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, July 2009.

Business Experience

President, Founder: The Vicarage by the Sea, Inc.

Administration, Research, Education/Teaching, Direct Care. 1998 – Present

References

Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Whitehouse.
peter@gmail.com; tel. 216-844-6448

Susan Bell, A Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences, Bowdoin College, sbell@bowdoin.edu; tel: 207-725-3292
Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University, conrad@brandeis. edu; tel: 781-736-2653