Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Academic Resources: Graduate Programs

 

University of Arizona

Degrees offered:

  • MA, PH.D., MD/Ph.D

Medical Anthropology Faculty:

  • Rhonda Gillett - Biocultural, ecological and demographic approaches to medical anthropology; Africa.
  • Linda Green - Political and structural violence, human rights, gender, ethnicity, critical approaches to health and development, transnational migration: Central America, Latin America, USA immigration.
  • Mark A. Nichter - Anthropology of the body, health and illness: medical anthropology in clinical settings, ethnomedicine, international health and development; political ecology: South and Southeast Asia, USA.
  • Mimi Nichter - Adolescent health, women and health; women and the body, family and household studies; USA and India.
  • Ivy Pike - Biocultural anthrolopogy, women's health, Africa
  • Susan Shaw - Political economy of the American health care system, health disparity, HIV and drug use, social movements

Participating Faculty in Anthropology

  • Ana M. Alonso - Sociocultural anthropology; culture and power; gender, class, and ethnicity; Latin America, Mexico and the USA.
  • Mamadoo Baro - Development anthropology household food security: Africa, Afro-America and Haiti.
  • James Greenberg - Economic anthropology; political ecology, urban anthropology, Mesoamerica, borderlands migration.
  • Jane Hill - Linguistics and cultural anthropology; language, race, and political economy.
  • David Killick - Culture and technology; Africa and the USA. Steve Lansing - Cultural and ecological anthropology; Southeast Asia
  • Steve Lansing - Cultural and ecological anthropology; Southeast Asia
  • Norma Mendoza-Denton - Linguistic anthropology, adolescence, style: USA
  • Thomas Park - Cultural and political anthropology; economic anthropology, political ecology.
  • Steve Zegura - Biological anthropology; genetics evolution.

Participating Faculty from other departments:

  • Diane Austin: BARA - environmental impact and education. Natural Resource management; Native American consultation; USA
  • Laura Briggs: - Women's studies; women and the politics of science and technology, medical history.
  • Tim Finan: BARA - Economic and development anthropology: Brazil, Latin America and Saudia Arabia.
  • Jennie R. Joe : Native American Research and Training Center - North American Indians, culture and disability.
  • Nicolette Teufel: Arizona Prevention Center nutritional anthropology, Native American health.
  • John Meeny - University Medical School. Biological anthropology
  • Ann Wright - University Medical Center Pediatrics, Respiratory sciences clinical anthropology, Native American Health.

Program information:

  • An intensive graduate program in medical anthropology is offered as a departmental concentration area. Students are broadly trained in anthropology in a department which encourages an integration of all subfields of anthropology as well as an engaged approach to anthropology which equally values the advancement of theory and the application of anthropology in contemporary problem solving. A suite of 11 graduate seminars in subjects directly related to medical anthropology are regularly offered in the department. Students are exposed to a full range of theories as well as thematic areas relevant for medical anthropology. Courses range in focus from anthropology of the body, health and illness to health and the human life cycle, biocultural anthropology to political ecology, ethnomedicine to applications of anthropology in clinical and community contexts, international health and women in development to public policy, and adolescent health to gender, health and sexuality. Graduate courses are available elsewhere on campus for students who wish to receive complementary training in epidemiology, public health, medical geography, and women's studies.
  • Medical anthropology has been a concentration in the department since 1980 and since 1986 the department has offered one of the most rigorous PhD training programs in medical anthropology in the country. Between two and three students are generally admitted to the program each year. In the past 15 years, about an equal number of students have chosen to carry out field research in the US and in other countries (Africa, Carribean , Latin and South America , Middle East, Pacific Basin, South and Southeast Asia, Middle East). Students have the opportunity to pursue a Masters in Public Health (MPH) as a complement to their medical anthropology training. A graduate certificate in medical anthropology for motivated health science professionals and gifted developing world social scientists is offered by the department for scholars who wish to receive specialized training. A MD/ Ph.D. program is possible to pursue.

Address:

  • Department of Anthropology
    Building 30
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, AZ 85721
    phone: (602) 621-2585
    fax: (602) 621-2088
    e-mail: main@anthro.arizona.edu
    http://fp.arizona.edu/medanthro