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Hire Dr. Michelle N.

United States

USD 80 /hr

Social science researcher and writer specializing in health behavior, medical cannabis, and research methods.

Profile Summary

Michelle Newhart, PhD, works as an instructional designer at Mt. San Antonio College. A contributor to more than a dozen nonfiction books as author or editor, Newhart holds a BA in sociology from the University of Missouri and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the coauthor of Understanding Research Methods (10th Ed.) and The Medicalization of Marijuana, both from Routledge. Previously, she has worked developing content for Cengage and taught sociology at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Sociology
• ★ Research Methodology
• ☆ Cannabis/CBD
• ☆ Social Science & Humanities
• ☆ Social Movements
• ☆ Medical Sociology
• ☆ Psychoactive Drugs
• ☆ Research
• ☆ Print Design

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

Instructional Designer

Mt. San Antonio College

June 2015 - Present

Content Developer

Cengage Learning

September 2013 - June 2015

Instructor

University of Colorado, Boulder

August 2008 - May 2013

Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder

May 2012 - August 2012

Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder

January 2009 - January 2010

Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder

January 2007 - August 2008

Teaching Assistant

University of Colorado, Boulder

August 2006 - August 2008

Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder

May 2007 - August 2007

Education

PhD (Sociology)

University of Colorado Boulder

August 2006 - August 2013

MA (Sociology)

University of Colorado Boulder

August 2006 - May 2010

BS (Sociology)

University of Missouri Columbia

- May 1995

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Newhart, Michelle R. and William R. Dolphin. 2021. "Flipping the Script on Cannabis Stigma: Legitimacy Strategies of Medical Cannabis Patients," chapter 24 in eds. Dominic Corva and Joshua Meisel, The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research. New York: Routledge .

BOOK

Newhart, Michelle and William Dolphin. 2019. The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience. New York: Routledge .

Patten, Mildred L. and Michelle Newhart. 2017. Understanding Research Methods: An Overview of the Essentials, 10E. New York: Routledge .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Newhart, Michelle. 2013. “Menopause Matters: The Implications of Menopause Research for Studies of Mid-life Health.” Health Sociology Review. 22(4):365–376 .

Downey, Liam, Summer Dubois, Brian Hawkins and Michelle (Newhart) Walker. 2008. “Environmental Inequality in Metropolitan America.” Organization & Environment. 21(3): 270–294 .

SUPERVISED STUDENT PUBLICATION

(2010). Beyond the gender divide in mental health . University of Colorado at Boulder.