My current research focuses on the relationship between human rights abuses and health outcomes for Haitian agricultural workers, or braceros, in the Dominican Republic. This work is sponsored through the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and builds on my intersecting interests in health and the social determinants that undergird it.
Biographical Profile
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Anthropology
Tenure Status
Tenured
Interest Background
Do you include students in your research?
None
Interest Keywords
Critical Medical Anthropology, International Public Health, Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Health and Human Rights,Ethnographic Methods in Health Research (Community Based Participatory Research), Health Disparities, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Issues of Development, Social Impact Analysis, West and Southern Africa, Dominican Republic, Southern U.S.
Personal Focus Areas
International Health, Health and Healing in the African Diaspora, Social and Health Disparities
Professional Preparation(Education & Training)
Dates
Institution
Location
Degree
Field of Study
2002
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
PhD
Anthropology
1994
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
MA
Anthropology
1988
Grinnell College
Grinell, Iowa
BA
French
Memberships & Professional Activities
Dates
Type
Description
Institution/Entity
Membership
American Public Health Association
Membership
Society for Applied Anthropology
Membership
American Anthropological Association
Positions & Appointments
Dates
Description
Institution/Entity
1989 - 1990
Editor, Country America Magazine, Meredith Corporation
1990 - 1992
Associate Public Relations Representative, Meredith Corporation
1992 - 1993
Teaching Assistant, Linguistic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University
2001
Resident Director, Council on International Educational Exchange Study Center's Public Health Program in Santiago, Dominican Republic
2001 - 2003
Acting Resident Director, Council on International Educational Exchange Study Center
1994
Teaching Assistant, Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University
2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Health Promotion Education and Behavior, University of South Carolina
1995
Teaching Assistant, Society and the Individual, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
1996
Teaching Assistant, Biocultural Evolution and Great Discoveries in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
2000
Teaching Assistant, Africa: Social Science Perspectives, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
1991
Loaned Executive to the United Way, Meredith Corporation
Recognition Awards, Honors, & Fellowships
Dates
Type
Description
Foundation/Entity
2009
Award
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Awards
University of South Carolina
2011
Award
Book Proposal Competition Award for Esperanza: Health and Human Rights on a Dominican Batey California Series in Public Anthropology
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