Karen Saucier Lundy, PhD, RN, FAAN - University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi

Karen Saucier Lundy, PhD, RN, FAAN is currently a Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She has practiced in community and public health in diverse settings, such as state health departments, migrant health programs, the U.S. Public Health Service, school health, and high-risk maternity and child health. She has also functioned in neonatal intensive care as a staff nurse, clinical instructor, and transport nurse in regional referral medical centers. Dr. Lundy has taught community health at the baccalaureate and master’s levels. She has been responsible for undergraduate and graduate courses in community health nursing and doctoral courses in philosophy of science and qualitative research. Dr. Lundy served as Dean at Delta State University School of Nursing in Cleveland, Mississippi, and was on faculty at the University of Mississippi, Loretta Heights College in Denver, Colorado, and the University Of Colorado School Of Nursing in Denver. Dr. Lundy has also taught sociology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, including courses in family, gender roles, deviance, and social theory. Her scholarly presentations and publications have been in the areas of community health, historical inquiry, philosophy of science, European medieval historical research, gender role and the family, media, and international health and education in Great Britain, Germany, Jamaica, France and Cuba. Dr. Lundy also holds a teaching appointment in sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi where she most recently taught at the USM Abbey in Pontlevoy, France.  Her current research involves the transformation of women healers to social deviants in the systematic torture and killing of 'labeled' witches in 11th and 12th century Europe. She holds a BS in nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing, an MS in community health nursing from the University of Colorado School of Nursing in Denver and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Dr. Lundy is the author of Perspectives in Family and Community Health, which was named an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year in 1990.