Academic Resources: graduate programs
University of Kentucky
Degrees offered:
M.A., PH.D.
Medical Anthropology Faculty:
Mary K. Anglin (PhD New School for Social Research 1990, MPH University of California, Berkeley 1994; Assistant Prof) medical anthropologies and political economic analyses; race/ethnicity, gender, and nationality; anthropology of violence; HIV; breast cancer and reproductive health; critical epidemiology; manglin@pop.uky.edu
Deborah L. Crooks (PhD SUNY, Buffalo 1992; Assistant Prof) political economy of child growth; poverty, gender, and ethnicity in food and nutrition; child-centered ethnography; international health; biology of poverty; critical biological anthropology; dlcrooks@pop.uky.edu
Michele Rivkin-Fish (PhD Princeton 1997; Assistant Prof) women's health, sexuality and gender; critical studies of reproduction; political economy of health and health development; biomedicine as a site of culture/power; mrivk2@pop.uky.edu
Monica Udvardy (PhD Uppsala University 1990; Assoc Prof) cultural anthropology, symbolism, gender issues in development, medical anthropology;udvardy@pop.uky.edu
John van Willigen (PhD University of Arizona 1971; Prof) culture change, applied anthropology, social aging in India; ant101@pop.uky.edu
Affiliated Faculty:
Lee Blonder (PhD University of Pennsylvania 1986; Assoc Prof; joint appointment with Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine) brain and behavior, evolution of language, emotion and psychopathology
Robert F. Kraus (MD Medical College of Wisconsin 1955; Prof; joint appointment with the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine) cultural psychiatry, culture and personality
Nancy Schoenberg (PhD University of Florida 1994; Assistant Prof; joint appointment with Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine) medical anthropology; gerontology; gender, self-care, and chronic disease
H. Jean Wiese (PhD University of North Carolina 1971; Associate Prof; joint appointment with Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine) medical anthropology, communications, response to illness
Program information:
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky offers training in Medical Anthropology at both the Masters and PhD levels. Incorporating both basic and applied research, the concentration in medical anthropology emphasizes the study of health, illness, and the body through: 1) political economic analyses; 2) examinations of cultural identity and social location; and 3) life course perspectives. Course offerings specifically in medical anthropology consist of the following: Global Health: People, Institutions, and Change; Cultures and Politics of Reproduction; Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Food, Malnutrition and Food Security in a Changing World; Gender, Ethnicity, and Health; Anthropology and Epidemiology; and Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology. Geographic areas in which there is departmental expertise include post-soviet Russia and Eastern Europe; South and Southeast Asia, particularly India and the Philippines; Latin America; the Caribbean; East and West Africa; and North America, with special emphasis on Appalachia and the rural South.
To develop a broad foundation within the discipline of anthropology, students are required to take a sequence of core courses (anthropological theory, biological anthropology, culture change, and social organization), a series of courses in research methods and, in the PhD Program, three advanced seminars outside their areas of concentration. Specialized training is provided through courses within the areas of concentration and regional (geographic) emphasis selected by students.
Medical Anthropology articulates with Development Anthropology and other dimensions of the Applied Anthropology Program at U.K., as well as with Departmental offerings in demography, environmental anthropology, gender studies and symbolic anthropology. Students in Medical Anthropology may elect to participate in Graduate Certificate Programs in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, the Women's Studies Program or the Program in Social Theory (the latter programs located in the College of Arts and Sciences). Internship opportunities exist with the U. K. Medical Center, the Center for Rural Health, and the Department of Preventive Medicine, all in the College of Medicine; the Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky; and the Lexington-Fayette County Department of Health.
Address:
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
211 Lafferty Hall
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0024
606-257-2710
http://www.as.uky.edu/Anthropology/