ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 2007 - 2008
Darcie Debevec : Received an Eva L. Pancoast Fellowship and was accepted to the East Asia Pacific Summer Institute funded by NSF and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She will be hosted by Waseda University in Tokyo while researching healthcare worker migration to Japan.
Nadia El-Sharaawi: Received a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Doctoral Research Award and Case's Ruth Barber Moon Award.
Prisca Fall: Is beginning a new job with the National Cancer Institute's Division of Epidemiology and Genetics with Dr. Chatterjee doing data analysis.
Meghan Halley: Received the Society for Psychological Anthropology Lemelson Award and the Eva L. Pancoast Fellowship. Both will be used to support her pilot research this summer examining adolescent sexuality in Tanzania.
Ruth Magtanong: Has been accepted into the NSF Summer Field Training in Methods of Data Collection in Cultural Anthropology in Bolivia.
Hillary Melchiors: Received the Society for Psychological Anthropology Lemelson Award to conduct a pilot study in Berlin investigating the coalesced nature of political, psychological, and cultural definitions of mental illness, race, and identity and how they relate to acculturation and integration in the adolescent immigrant context. She will spend one month working with Turkish-German girls ages 14 to 17.
Aura Newlin: Will be traveling to Papua, New Guinea summer 2008 as part of the Fogarty Framework in Global Health research team. She will be monitoring and evaluating a bed net distribution program and its impact on malaria control in various sites throughout the country. Also, she will be attending the 40th anniversary colloquium of the PNG Institute for Medical Research and an annual national medical conference.
Elizabeth Olson: Presented a paper titled Local Politicking and the Others Who They Negotiate With: Making Sustainable Development Decisions in the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve at the American Ethnological Society/Anthropological Society of North America meeting held in April, 2008. She is also working as a writing liason for the SAGES program and will be offering her SAGES seminar USSO 254: Global Health Issues and Culture summer 2008.
Meg Winchester: Appointed program director of the Center for Social Science Research on AIDS (CeSSRA). She will travel to Uganda to participate in activities to organize the Center.
The following graduate students presented papers at the Society for Applied Anthropology/Society for Medical Anthropology conference in Memphis, March 25-29:
Anne-Marie Bertino: Perceived Control as an Indicator of Stress among Mikea Women of Madagascar.
Brad Casucci: Controlling Flies or People?: Trachoma Intervention and the Maasai of Kenya.
Nadia El-Shaarawi: Risky Lifestyles: Public Health Discourses and the Construction of the Self.
Janelle Highland: Collaboration and Accommodation: Patient Centered Care, Communication, and Health Promotion.
Denise Lin: Social Support among Chinese Cancer Patients in Los Angeles County.
Ruth Magtanong: The Exploitation of the Sick Role as a Cultural Maintenance Tool.
Jonathan Metcalfe: Increasing HIV Testing Uptake among Zimbabwean Health Workers: An Alternative Approach.
Panel: (Chair: Amy Rezac) Conceptual Knowledge and Response to Illness: Concentration on Mental Health.
Aura Newlin: Ethnopsychology, Professional Socialization, and the Normalization of Mental Illness in Old Age.
Amy Rezac: What Would Tu Pac Do? A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Hip Hop Culture on Mental Well-Being, Identity, and Social Network Construction Among Refugee Youth in Host Countries.
GRADUATE DISCOURSE
Graduate Discourse, our department graduate student group, has been extraordinarily busy the last two semesters. They have been meeting to discuss business and upcoming events at the departmental, university, and wider community levels. In addition, they held monthly works-in-progress meetings to give feedback on one or more of graduate students' papers, presentations, and/or funding proposals. This experience has been invaluable for all the students who participated, both on the receiving and giving end of the feedback, as they got not only great ideas for the projects they were working on but unbelievable support and encouragement from peers as well! Several of the Graduate Discourse representatives, organized by Jonathan Metcalfe, participated in the annual university intramural bowling tournament on February 16. The first professional development seminar organized by Amy Rezac was held on February 22 with Dr. Anderson-Fye presenting "How to give a 15 Minute Conference Presentation." Amy also organized a meet and greet luncheon with the undergraduate anthropology majors catered by the Falafel Cafe on February 29. The luncheon was an excellent opportunity for the undergraduates to ask questions about graduate student life, research interests, anthropology programs in general, and planning for the future. Editor-in-chief, Jonathan Metcalfe, projects that the next issue of the journal, Graduate Discourse, will be ready for publication by late April.
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