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 …
2/22/2018—4 pm—CSE E252—Crystal Biruk "Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World" Drawing on ethnographic work as an "anthropologist among the demographers," this talk traces the social lives of quantitative health data collected at the household level in rural Malawi that become statistics that inform policy and planning. Whereas survey researchers since the …
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 …