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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida

John Hood

Graduate Student
Email: jhood1@ufl.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress
  • M.A. Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 2019
  • B.A. Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 2019

Subfield

Cultural Anthropology

Chair

Dr. Jeffrey C. Johnson

Research Interests

Human-environment interactions, refugees, disasters, drivers of human migration, South Pacific Studies, Southeast Asian studies, Tonga, Burma/Myanmar, Indonesia, diaspora studies, environmental anthropology, cognitive anthropology, anthropology of development, political anthropology, peace and conflict studies, social network analysis.

Selected Publications

Hood, John Hillory. 2019. “Cultural Models of Democracy Among Burmese Residents in the United States.” Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (33). DOI: 10.1007/s41809-019-00033-5.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

  • Graduate Assistantship, University of Florida, 2019–2021
  • Elizabeth Eddy Endowment, University of Florida, 2020
  • Board of Education Summer Fellowship, University of Florida, 2019
  • Graduate Assistantship, Northern Illinois University, 2016-2019
  • Best Paper, Northern Illinois University Southeast Asia Conference, 2015
  • Dean’s Award, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 2015
  • Best Paper, Northern Illinois University Southeast Asia Conference, 2014
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Northern Illinois University, 2013-2015
  • Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Northern Illinois University, 2014-2015
  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, 2014
  • V.I.P. Scholarship, Northern Illinois University, 2013-2015