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CURRICULUM VITAE
Elizabeth M. Norman
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Montclair, New Jersey 07042
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EDUCATION:
1986 PhD, New York University, Dissertation. “Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military
Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.”
1977 M.A. Education, New York University.
1973 B.S. Nursing, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.
HONORS:
September 2015
Mason Lecture: National World War II Museum, New Orleans.
November 2013
One Book One Community, University of Massaschusetts.
February 2013
Buckley Scholar Lecture, Adelphi University.
May 2011
Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award. Rutgers Living History Society.
September 2010
Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist.
May 2010
Stuart G. Christian Lecture. Virginia Historical Society.
April 2010
New York University, Steinhardt School. Griffiths Research Award.
June 2009
Certificate of Appreciation. Embassy of the Philippines, Washington D.C.
May 2004
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Hall of Distinguished Alumni
Award.
May 2004.
Rutgers College of Nursing Commencement Speaker.
May 2003.
University of California San Francisco, Commencement Speaker.
October 2001.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Seventh Annual John P.
McGovern Award
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September 2001. Indiana State University, Distinguished Lecturer, Terra Haute, Indiana.
March 2001.
University of Virginia. Eighth Annual Agnes Dillon Award.
June 2000.
New York University, Division of Nursing, Distinguished Alumni Award.
November 1999. American Academy of Nursing. National Media Award.
October 1999.
Lavinia L. Dock Award for Outstanding Historical Scholarship.
American Association for the History of Nursing.
September 1999. Convocation Speaker. Bloomfield College. Bloomfield, New Jersey.
September 1996
Convocation Speaker. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
November 1995.
International Public Print Media Award, Sigma Theta Tau
International .
September 1994. Convocation Speaker. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
April 1993.
Certificate of Appreciation. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs.
April 1992.
Outstanding Alumna. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, College of
Nursing.
January 1992.
Book of the Year. American Journal of Nursing
October 1991.
Fellow. American Academy of Nursing.
June 1990.
Official Commendation for Military Nursing Research. Department of the
Army.
May 1988.
National Research Award. American Association of Critical Care
Nurses.
June 1986.
Visiting Professor. Department of the Navy, Department of Psychiatry,
Portsmouth, Virginia.
January 1977.
Sigma Theta Tau, Upsilon Chapter
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
ACADEMIC RANK
INSTITUTION
DATE
Professor
New York University
September 2005 The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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Tenured faculty member teaching graduate and doctoral level writing, research design and
dissertation proposal preparation. Chair and committee member for five current doctoral
dissertations. And two master thesis.
Doctoral Program Director Division of Nursing
Contributing Editor
American Journal of Nursing
345 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10014
January 1998 – September 2005
January 1994 to
December 1999
Wrote a monthly question and answer column titled "Critical Questions. Authored an information
column titled "ICU Monitor" from January 1996 until December 1997.
Associate Professor
Rutgers, The State University
Graduate Program Director College of Nursing
Assistant Professor
Newark, N.J. 07102
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sept. 1993 - Jan.1998
Fall 1996
Sept. 1986 - July 1993
Sept. 1981 - Sept.1986
Tenured faculty member. Taught undergraduate and graduate nursing courses.
Research Liaison
Trauma Team
University Hospital
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Sept. 1990 - Sept.1992
Sept. 1985 - Sept.1990
Nursing Instructor
Trenton State College
Trenton, New Jersey
Sept. 1979 - June 1981
Nursing Instructor
Helene Fuld Medical Center
Trenton, New Jersey
June 1975 -Sept. 1978
Staff nurse
St.Peter's Medical Center
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Jan. 1974 - June 1975
Staff Nurse
United Hospitals of Newark
Newark, New Jersey
Jan. 1973 - Dec. 1973
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Norman E. (2013). We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Women Trapped on
Bataan. 2nd edition. New York: Random House. 2014 Audible.com edition released.
Norman M., & Norman E. (2009) Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March
and Its Aftermath. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (Hardcover, ebook) Picador
Books (paperback). New York Times best-seller list, eight weeks; Publishers Weekly
bestseller and “summer breakout book.”; New York Times book critic Dwight Garner’s top
ten non-fiction books of 2009; Amazon.com Editor’s Top 100 Books of 2009; Amazon.com
Editor’s Top 10 History books of 2009; Christian Science Monitor best nonfiction books of
2009; 20 Best Books of 2009 U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings; American Library
Association 2010 Notable Books For Adult Readers, Non-fiction (twelve books named);
Audio Publishers Association of America History Book of the Year, 2009; USAA 2010
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Summer reading list; Time Magazine 2010 summer book list; June 2011 New York Times
Magazine "The 6th Floor" Blog, 100 Greatest Nonfiction Books of All Time.
(2011). Tears in the Darkness. Beijing, China: Fonghong Media, in cooperation with Jiangsu
People’s Publishing House. Translation
(2011). Bataan Shinokoushin. Tokyo, Japan : Kawade Shobo. Translation.
(2011). Tears in the Darkness. Czech: Jota Publishers. Translation.
Norman, E. (1999). We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on
Bataan by the Japanese. 1st edition. New York: Random House (hardcover, ebook), Atria
Publishing (paperback).
Norman, E. (1990). Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. American Journal of Nursing Book of the
Year. In print, 2013.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Norman, E. (2006). "The Challenge of Historical Research." In Geri Lo-Biondo-Wood & Judi
Haber (Eds.). Nursing Research: Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilization. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania: C.V. Mosby, 436-437.
Norman E. (2001). “The Nurses Captured on Bataan.” In Brian Lamb (Ed.). Booknotes, Stories
from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country New
York: Public Affairs, 251-258. (2002, Penguin Books)
Norman, E. (2000). Ruby Bradley biography, Laura Cobb biography, Maude Davison
biography, Josephine Nesbit biography. In Vern Bullough and Lilli Sentz, (eds.). American
Nursing: Biographical Dictionary Volume 3. New York: Springer Publishing, 24-26; 57-59;
66-69; 215-218.
Norman, E., & Pinkham, D. (1993). Why should I think about my death? In D. Fishman & O.
Strickland (Eds.). Nursing Issues in the 90s. Albany, New York: Delmar Publishers, 58-75.
MONOGRAPH
Norman, E. (contributing author) in A. Wooley & S. Davis (Eds.). (1999). Guide for Integrating
History into the Nursing Curriculum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Invitational Nursing
History Conference.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
McCormack R, Hoffman L, Goldfrank L, Norman M, Norman E. (2015) "Voices of Homeless
Alcoholics Who Frequent Bellevue Hospital: A Qualitative Study" Annals of Emergency
Medicine. 65(2) 178-186.
Norman, E. (2014) "Remembering the Fall of Bataan." American Journal of Nursing 114(4) 5053.
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Norman M., & Norman E. (2009) “In the Company of Ghosts.” World War II Magazine. 24(3)
42- 49.
Norman M. & Norman E. (2009) “Surviving Bataan.” American Heritage, 59(2) 56-62
Kobayashi M., & Norman, E. (2006) "Development of Japanese NWI-R Evaluation of Japanese
Professional Nursing Practice Environment." Japanese Journal of Nursing Administration.
16(11), 929-935.
dePaula Lima, E., Norman, E., & dePaula Lima A. (2005). Translation and Adaptation of the
Social Support Network Inventory in Brazil. The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 37(3), 258260.
Norman, E. & Angell D. (2000). Vivian Bullwinkel. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 6
(6), 345-353.
Norman, E., & Angell, D. (1999). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of
Australian Nurses. Nursing History Review, 7, 97-112.
Norman, E. (1997). Boosting Your Career with a Mentor. Orthopaedic Nursing, 16(4), 13-16. The
sixth article in a professional development initiative sponsored by the National Association
of Orthopaedic Nursing and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer.
Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1995). How Did They All Survive? An Analysis of American Nurses'
Experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps. Nursing History Review, 3, 105-127.
Norman, E. (1995). American Military Nurses in Wartime and the Impact of Their Experiences
on Peacetime Nursing Practice. Caduceus: Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health
Sciences, 11(1), 23-34. This special issue received the International Public Print Media
Award from Sigma Theta Tau International.
Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1993). The Angels of Bataan. Image: The Journal of Nursing
Scholarship, 25(2), 121-126.
McCormac, M., Redeker, N., & Norman, E. (1992). Analysis of Motor Vehicle Crash Data in
an Urban Trauma Center: Implications for Nursing Practice and Research. Heart & Lung,
21, 558-567.
Norman, E. (1992). After the Casualties: The Effect of Working in the Vietnam War on Nurses'
Professional Identity and Career Decisions. Nursing Research, 41, 110-113. Reprinted in
1995 in The Journal of Military Nursing and Research, 1 (3), 25-29.
Norman, E., Griffin, C., & Getek, D. (1991). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in an Urban
Trauma Population. Applied Nursing Research, 4 , 171-176.
ABSTRACTS, BOOK REVIEWS, PROCEEDINGS, LETTERS
Norman E. (2012). Beyond Combat:Women and Gender Roles in the Vietnam War Era. H-Net:
Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine. (Book review).
Norman, E. (2001). The Queen’s Poor: Life as They Find It in Town and Country. Nursing
History Review, 9, 234-35. (Book review).
Norman, E. (2000, March 27). For Want of Soap and Water. The New York Times. p.26 (op-ed
page).
Norman, E. (2000). We Band of Angels. New Jersey Nurse. 30, 4.
Norman, E. (1999, Summer). The Amazing World of Commercial Publishing. Bulletin of the
American Association for the History of Nursing. (63), 6. (Column).
Norman, E. (1998). White Coolies: Australian Nurses Behind Enemy Lines. Nursing History
Review, 6, 159-60. (Book review).
Norman E., & Angell D. (1997). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of
Australian Nurses on Banka Island, Sumatra. In the Fourteenth Annual American
Association for the History of Nursing Conference Proceedings Book, Hartford,
Connecticut: University of Connecticut.
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Norman, E., & Sarnecky, M. (1996). Nurses Under Fire: The World War II Experiences of
Nurses on Bataan and Corregidor. Nursing Research, 45(2), 126. (Letter).
Norman, E. (1995). The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery. Nursing History Review, 4, 214-15. (Book
review).
Norman, E. (1994). They Had No Choice But to Survive: Army Nurses on Bataan and
Corregidor. In D. Stapleton & C. Welch. (Eds.). Critical Issues in American Nursing in the
Twentieth Century. North Tarrytown, New York: Rockefeller Archives, 33-42.
(Proceedings).
Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1993). How Did They All Survive? An Analysis of American Nurses'
Experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps. In the Tenth Annual American Association
for the History of Nursing Conference Proceedings Book, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
ADVISORY, EDITORIAL, SERVICE ACTIVITIES
DATE
Oxford University Press
September 2015
University of Louisiana Press
March 2013
Military Medicine
July 2012 – present
American Journal of Nursing
September 2003 - present
Kent State University Press
February 2011
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
CURRENT PROJECT
Co-principal investigator. 2014.“Bellevue Hospital” Michael Norman, co-principal investigator.
Under contract with Henry Holt Publishers, John Sterling editor.
CURRENT METHODOLOGY CONSULTANT:
Stephen Wall (PI) Improving organ donor registration among black male patrons of black owner
barbershops. R01DK099639
Melvin, Kristal C LTC USARMY. Embracing the Past, Informing the Future:
Military Nurses' Wartime Experiences" TriService Research Program Grants.
COMPLETED RESEARCH
Methodology consultant: Ryan McCormack (PI) Novel interventions for alcohol dependent
frequent ED users" NIH K23. FOA Number: PA-11-194
Co-principal investigator. "Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and It's
Aftermath." A study of American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers in combat in World War II and
their lives in the long years after liberation. Study completed September 2008. Published 2009.
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Principal Investigator. "We Band of Angels." Historical study detailing the experiences of 99
American army and navy nurses in the Philippine Islands, World War. Rutgers University Grant
support: $3,500. Study completed Spring 1998. Published 2009.
Principal investigator. “Australian military nurses in the Pacific Theater, World War II."
Historical study examining the experiences of 65 Australian military nurses who served in
Malaya. Dorothy Angell, co-investigator. Study completed Spring 1998.
Co-investigator. "Implications of daily chest radiographs on critical care nursing practice."
UMDNJ staff nurses, principal investigator. Study completed January 1992.
Co-investigator. "Analysis of Motor Vehicle Crash Data in an Urban Trauma Center:
Implications for Nursing Practice and Research." M. McCormac, principal investigator. N.
Redeker, co-investigator. Study completed 1991.
Principal investigator. "A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Blood Pressure Measurements in
Adult Trauma Patients." Supported by Rutgers Biomedical Research Grant $750. Study
completed July 1989.
Principal investigator. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Victims of Physical Trauma." Study
completed January 1988. Supported by Rutgers Summer Fellowship Award $1500.
Doctoral dissertation. Nurses In War: A Study Of Female Military Nurses Who Served In
Vietnam During The War Years 1962-1973. Study completed February 1986. Chairperson: P.
Winstead-Fry.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
September 2015. National World War II Museum. Mason Lecture. “We Band of Angels: The
Untold Story of American Women trapped on Bataan.”
June 2015. Rikers Island Prison Complex, New York New York. Grand Rounds Mental Health
Professionals, “Survival is a Question of Resilience: Ben Steele, Prisoner of War.”
September 2014. Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Texas, Tri-Service Research Conference
“Lessons Learned From The Front Lines of Military Health Service.” Closing Keynote
Address.
March 2014. Seton Hall University. South Orange New Jersey. 27th Annual Reikemeyer Research
Day. "Nurses in the Military: History and Lessons for the Future." Keynote Address
March 2014. 13th Annual conference of the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners. Lansing
Michigan. "We Band of Angels." Keynote Address
November 2013. University of Massachusetts One Book One Community Program. Bridgewater
Massachusetts. "Helen Cassiani Nestor." Keynote address
May 2013. North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset New York. “Nurses in the military:
Lessons for the Future.” Keynote address.
February 2013. Garden City New York. Adelphi University. “Military Women and Leadership.”
Buckley Lecture.
April 2012. Fredonia NY. SUNY-Fredonia, “Lessons Learned from the Frontlines of Military
Health Services.” Keynote address.
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March 2012. D. Strong’s Vail Leadership Symposium, Vail Colorado. “Tears in the Darkness.”
October 2011. University of Montana, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana.
“Ben Steele POW Artist.”
May 2011. Rutgers University. Living History Society. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
“Interviewing World War II POWs.”
March 2011. Western Heritage Center. Billings Montana. “Tears in the Darkness.”
October 2010. Indianapolis, Indiana. University of Indiana. Health Care Professional
Development Day. “Lessons Learned from [Military] Service.” Keynote Address.
May 2010. Stuart G. Christian Lecture. Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, Virginia. “Tears
in the Darkness.”
April 2010. Descendants of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor. Reno, Nevada.
“Tears in the Darkness.”
October 2010. Indianapolis, Indiana. University of Indiana. Health Care Professional
Development Day. “Lessons Learned from [Military] Service.” Keynote Address.
May 2010 Visiting Nurse Association of New York. New York. “Nurses in Wartime.” Keynote
address.
May 2009. Detroit Michigan Sinai-Grace Medical Center and Baltimore Maryland Life-Bridge
Health, “We Band of Angels.” Keynote Address.
January 2010. Vail, Colorado: Vail Symposium, Vail, Colorado. “Tears in the Darkness.”
November 2009. New York. New York University, Student Resource Center and Veterans
Alliance. “Tears in the Darkness.”
November 2009. New York. J.P. Morgan Private Equity Group. New York. “Tears in the
Darkness.”
October 2009. Nashville, Tennessee. Southern Festival of Books. “Tears in the Darkness.”
October 2009. Newark, New Jersey. Rutgers University, Center for the Study of Genocide and
Human Rights. “Tears in the Darkness.”
October 2009. Baltimore, Maryland. New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association.
September 2009. Chicago, Illinois. Pritzker Military Library. “Tears in the Darkness.”
September 2009. Norfolk, Virginia. MacArthur Memorial and Museum. “Tears in the Darkness.”
July 2009. Billings, Montana. Montana State University. “Tears in the Darkness.”
June 2009. Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Philippine Embassy Asian Veterans Groups.
“Tears in the Darkness.”
NYU Classes taught:
All courses are interdisciplinary and enroll graduate and doctoral students from different NYU
colleges (Arts and Sciences, Wagner School of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Steinhardt
School of Education, Law School and Columbia University School of Public Health (via the NY
consortium of universities)
RESCH10. 2138 Writing Empirical Research: Education, Behavioral, Health, Humanities and
Social Science Professions
RESCH-GE.2140 Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
RESCH- GE 3001Dissertation Proposal Seminar
Member of six current dissertation committees and one master's thesis.
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