Are you interested in using video / photo equipment in your research? Not sure what to do with your fieldwork images? This Thursday at 11:00am in Turlington 1208 Chris LeClere is giving a basic overview of creating and storing images. This is part of Dr. Mulligan’s Foundations for a Career in Anthropology Course; however, this module is open …
2/8/2018—4 pm—404 GRI—Adrienne Strong "Bureaucratic Proliferation, Surveillance, and Care Practices: The Partograph as Technology and Bureaucratic Document" The partograph, graphical representation of a pregnant woman’s labor, is a simple technology meant to help healthcare providers detect serious problems for the mother or her baby before she gives birth. Despite its presence in many low resource …
Please save the dates for our upcoming graduate student lunches with the Medical Anthropology candidates. We have four great candidates coming to UF over the next few weeks and would love as much graduate student participation and input as possible. All four candidates are very strong in African studies in addition to medical anthropology and …
2/12/2018—4 pm—CSE E252—Kristen McLean "Engendering Change: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Resilience in the Context of Ebola." In this talk I will be focusing on the concept of resilience and asking how people construct and sustain wellbeing despite exposure to significant adversity. I will discuss my work on fatherhood, masculinity and psychosocial wellbeing in Sierra Leone, examining …
Please save the dates for our upcoming graduate student lunches with the Medical Anthropology candidates. We have four great candidates coming to UF over the next few weeks and would love as much graduate student participation and input as possible. All four candidates are very strong in African studies in addition to medical anthropology and …
2/15/2018—4 pm—CSE E252—Emily Mendenhall "Syndemic Diabetes: Entanglements with Poverty, Trauma, and AIDS" This talk will introduce the concept of syndemics, a theory of how social and health problems travel together within and between populations. Dr. Mendenhall will discuss the concept of syndemic diabetes (type 2) through a discussion of her mixed methods research among low-income …
Please save the dates for our upcoming graduate student lunches with the Medical Anthropology candidates. We have four great candidates coming to UF over the next few weeks and would love as much graduate student participation and input as possible. All four candidates are very strong in African studies in addition to medical anthropology and …