Academic Resources: Graduate Programs
University of South Florida
Degrees offered:
- M.A., PH.D., dual degree with College of Public Health (MA/MPH and PhD/MPH)
Medical Anthropology Faculty:
- Roberta D. Baer
Medical anthropology; nutritional anthropology; cultural aspects of diabetes, cancer, and stress; race and health disparities; cross cultural and lay–professional concepts of disease and illness; international development; Latin America, US - Heide Castañeda
Social inequality and medicine, critical medical anthropology, immigrant and refugee health, unauthorized/undocumented/”illegal” migration, transnational labor migration, constructs of citizenship, human rights, especially the right to health; Europe, Germany, Mexican migration to the U.S. - David Himmelgreen
Biological anthropology, medical anthropology, maternal and child health, nutritional assessment, food insecurity and hunger, child growth and development, obesity and chronic disease, hypertension, nutrition education, nutrition and HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention evaluation, behaviorally based intervention research; Costa Rica, Southern Africa, India, United States - Daniel Lende
Medical anthropology, synthesis of biological and cultural anthropology, behavioral health, substance use and abuse, Colombia, U.S. - Lorena Madrigal
The evolution of human postmenopausal longevity, mitochondrial bases of differential longevity, human biology, population genetics, bio-cultural anthropology, historical demography, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean populations. - Nancy Romero-Daza
HIV/AIDS, women's health, health problems in the inner city, infant mortality, drug abuse, commercial sex; Costa Rica, Southern Africa, United States - Linda M. Whiteford
Applied medical anthropology, public health, health care delivery, reproduction, disasters and health, political economy of health, international health, infectious disease; Caribbean, Latin America
Affiliated Faculty:
- Carol Bryant
Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health - Jeannine Coreil
Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health - Sokolovsky, Jay
Department of Anthropology, USF-St. Petersburg - Uzzell, J. Douglas, Courtesy Professor
- Maria D. Vesperi, New College
Program information:
- The University of South Florida provides education and training for students in both Masters and Doctoral programs. The program emphasizes applied research and draws on the broad range of faculty expertise in international health, nutritional anthropology, policy analysis, forensic and genetic anthropology, child and maternal health, migration, and HIV-AIDS. In addition to the departmental faculty, the University of South Florida has access to faculty from USF's College of Public Health and College of Medicine and offers a dual degree program, in which students can earn an M.A. or Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology along with the Masters of Public Health (M.P.H.) in one of eight concentrations within Public Health, or the Ph.D. in Public Health, with an M.A. in Applied Anthropology.
Address:
- Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave., SOC 107
Tampa, FL 33620-8100
phone: (813) 974-2138
fax: (813) 974-2668
