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ANTHROPOLOGY
 

Graduate Presentations 2005 - Present

 
Presented in 2007

Joseph Galanek presented a paper entitled “Anthropological Perspectives on the Mentally Ill ‘Offender’: Engagement with the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health System” at the Society of Applied Anthropology’s 2007 conference in Tampa, Florida.  Joe was also co-presenter at the eighth annual All-Ohio Institute on Community Psychiatry for a paper entitled “Addressing the Mental Health Needs for Consumers in the Criminal Justice System.” Along with administrators from the Cuyahoga Community Mental Health Board, he presented initial analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an outcomes evaluation he is conducting for the county’s mental health board.

Kate Masley presented a paper at the Society for the Anthropology of North America’s (SANA) annual meeting in New Orleans, LA (April 19-21).  The title of her paper was “La Partera, La Clinica, a Healthy Diet, Taking Care of Ourselves, and La Cuarentena: Pregnant and Postpartum Midwestern Mexicans Avoiding Disaster.”  She also presented a poster at Research ShowCASE entitled, “Living the 'Latina Paradox':  Mexicans in Northeast Ohio.”

 

Presented in 2006

Meg Winchester, along with Megan Nordquest, presented a paper titled “Expressions of Emotion in Health Communication between Mothers and Daughters: A Hispanic Case Study” at the Society for Applied Anthropology in Vancouver.

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, along with Megan Nordquest and Dr. Eric Youngstrom, presented posters on the “Subjective Experience of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in Youth and Families” to Research ShowCASE and the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Conference in Chicago.

Sarah Rubin was awarded a travel bursary from St. Antony's College to present a version of her dissertation entitled "Reproducing Domesticity: Representations of Motherhood in Colonial-era Ethnographies of Southern African Societies, 1930-1960" at a conference in Stellenbosch, Africa in July, 2006.

Kate Masley and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song co-organized a panel for the 2006 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting titled "So, You Want to be an Anthropologist?: The Politics, Pressures, and Pleasures of Fieldwork in the U.S." Dr. Rachel Chapman (a former faculty member of the Case Anthropology Department) introduced the panel.

Also presented at the 2006 AAA Meeting:

  • Sarah Rubin presented a paper entitled, "Home or Away: Choosing a First Field Site."
    Margaret Winchester presented a paper entitled, "Through the Lens of Globality: Understanding Global Health as an Emergent Paradigm."
    Maggie Zraly had presented some preliminary results of her research in Huye District in the Southern Province of Rwanda.

Graduate students enrolled in "Anthropology and Global Health" submitted their global health concept papers for a AAA session at the annual fall conference in 2006 and were accepted. Their session was held November 15, 2006 at the 105th AAA conference in San Jose, California. Participants included:

  • Janet McGrath—Introduction
    Corine Sinnette—International Health to Global Health: A Paradigm Shift
    Margaret Winchester—Through the Lens of Globality: Understanding Global Health as an Emergent Paradigm
    Bridget Haas and Janelle Highland—Global Health as an Anthropological Object: Theorizing the Links between the Body, Identity, and Health Inequities
    Darcie Debevec—Health in a Global Context: Considerations for Ethnographic Fieldwork
    Mike Rueschman and Diana Sepheri—The Rise of Medical Anthropology in the Global Health Policy Arena
    Craig Janes—Discussant

 

Presented in 2005

Michelle Nebergall presented her capstone project titled “The Relationship of Perceived Stress to Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors among Adolescents” in the Public Health Program.  This same project was also presented at the annual American Public Health Association meeting in Philadelphia.

Diana Sepehri received a grant from the Endowment of Sponsored Mentorship Program to present “Shamanism in Post-USSR Kyrgyzstan” at the World Congress on Social Sciences and Health in Istanbul, Turkey.

Mara Buchbinder presented a paper entitled “Seeing to Know: Visual Research of Youth with Diabetes” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development in Atlanta.  She also presented “Anthropological Perspectives on the Therapeutic Perspective of Play” co-authored with Dr. Jeffrey Longhofer, at the Association for the Study of Play Annual Meeting in Santa Fe.

Charlotte Haney presented a paper entitled “Making Space for the Body to Speak: Women with a history of Childhood Sexual Abuse attempt to birth ‘naturally’” at the SFAA. 

Michelle Nebergall presented the results of her capstone project in the M.P.H. program “The Relationship of Perceived Stress to Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents” at the 2005 Research ShowCASE. 

Elizabeth Olson presented papers on aspects of her fieldwork in Bolivia on the roles of doctors, midwives, and missionaries in forming child birth models at three professional conferences: 1) Annual Meetings of the Society of Applied Anthropology, 2) Annual Meetings of the Central States Anthropological Society, 3) Fourth Biennial Conference on Intercultural Research.