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Cultural Anthropology: Medical Anthropology; AIDS and the HIV Disease; Psychoactive Drug Use; Ethnography and Field Research Methods; Applied Anthropology; Contemporary Theory in Cultural Anthropology; Cognitive and Symbolic Anthropology; Political Economy of Health and Illness.

Area Specializations: Urban U.S. (Midwest), African Americans, Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly indigenous peoples of East Africa).

Languages: Kiswahili.

Related documents

Education/Academic qualification

Anthropology, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

… → 1989

Anthropology, M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia

… → 1982

Anthropology and Philosophy, B.A., University of Missouri, Columbia

… → 1977

Research Interests

  • Medical Anthropology
  • HIV and Substance Abuse
  • Psychoactive Drug Use

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Public Health
  • Community Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Anthropology
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology