Academic Resources: Graduate Programs
Washington State University
Type : Medical Anthropology
Degrees Offered: MA, PhD
Medical Anthropology Faculty:
- Dr. Edward Hagen studies child growth and development, addiction, depression, suicide and deliberate self-harm. hagen@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Dr. Barry Hewlett studies infancy and childhood, cultural psychology, infectious disease, child development and social learning, and parent-child relations. hewlett@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Dr. Jeannette Mageo is a psychological anthropologist who studies the dream, fantasy, and imagination, and the self, gender, power in relation to human development and mental health. jmageo@wsu.edu
- Dr. Courtney Meehan investigates biocultural and psychological dimensions child development with special focus on parental and non-parental investment, family organization, and child health.
cmeehan@wsu.edu - Dr. Marsha Bogar Quinlan works in the areas of family health, ethnomedicine, and ethnobotany, with particular focus on cultural affects on health and medical care and emic notions of health and illness. mquinlan@wsu.edu
- Dr. Rob Quinlan’s research areas include cross-cultural psychology, medical anthropology, and anthropological demography. He is specifically interested in biocultural aspects of human reproduction, family environment, child well-being and development.
rquinlan@wsu.edu
Other Sociocultural Anthropology Faculty
- Dr. John H. Bodley - Interests: Growth, scale and power, networks and complexity theory, evolutionary anthropology globalization and sustainability issues, Pacific Northwest of North America, Amazonia, Indigenous Peoples. Email: bodleyj@wsu.edu
- Dr. Nancy P. McKee - Interests: Cultural anthropology, linguistics, ethnicity, modernization, Third World development, Mexican Americans Email: npmckee@wsu.edu
- Dr. Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber - Interests: Gender and work, art, colonialism, cinema. South Asia (on the Vancouver campus) Email: weberc@vancouver.wsu.edu
Affiliated Faculty
- Dr. Bonnie Hewlett - Interests: public health anthropology, anthropology of adolescence, the anthropology of infectious and parasitic diseases and life histories of Central African women. hewlettb@vancouver.wsu.edu
Program Information
- The anthropology department has recently developed a new focus on research/training in psychological and medical anthropology. Our research group investigates psychological, medical, and biosocial aspects of the human condition from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Faculty research covers multiple interrelated areas, indicated below. We are seeking graduate students to train and with whom to pursue research in these areas. Students should apply to the Cultural or Evolutionary program depending which best aligns with their research interests. Our record of support for graduate students last year was 100%.
anthropological demography and epidemiology
attachment
cultural and cross-cultural psychology
dreaming
ethnomedicine
family and child health
global health disparities
infectious disease
medical ethnobotany
parental care and child development
personality
the self and power
social learning
substance abuse
suicide
contact : Program Contact Information
http://www.libarts.wsu.edu/anthro/
- Department of Anthropology
- PO Box 644910
- Washington State University
- Pullman WA 99164-4910
- 509-335-3441
- jmstrunk@wsu.ed
