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\n \n Shuar Health and Life History Project<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/a><\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n \n US Midlife Mortality Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\nDr. Michelle Parsons is building on her work on the Russian mortality crisis, published in her book “Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis”<\/a> published by Vanderbilt Press in 2014. Her current research, is focused on the US midlife mortality crisis in a county in Northern Arizona. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation (1658528).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n \n Experiences of COVID-19 Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Hardy and Dr. Mundell started a research project in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic and social shutdowns were ramping up. The research involves ethnographic interviews with Americans from a range of demographics. Hardy and Mundell wanted to characterize and understand power, policy, health, inequality, illness and justice from a holistic perspective. This kind of understanding, in Hardy’s words, can only be achieved through collaboration with communities and across disciplines.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n \n \n Political Anthropology of Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Nata<\/strong>ša Gari<\/strong>ć-Humphrey<\/strong>‘s research is focused on intergenerational dynamics and social movements in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her most recent work, “Negotiating “True” Politics: Intergenerational Dynamics During Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/a>” is featured in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n Ailing Miskitu lobster divers in Nicaragua Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Clinton Humphrey’s research is focus on ailing Miskitu lobster divers in Nicaragua. As the lobster industry has slowly collapsed along the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, so have the bodies and livelihoods of thousands of men suffering from chronic decompression sickness. The overarching aim of Dr. Humphrey’s research has been to track the ways in which illnesses come into being and persist for these commercial divers, as they struggle to navigate an exploitive transnational seafood industry in addition to the dangerous undersea ecologies where they must carry out their work. This context of suffering has inspired ongoing studies of how globalized political-economic processes converge with the generative embodied practices—including communicative practices—shaping perceptions of illness, the environment, and the precarity of one’s labors.<\/p>\n
An important aspect of Dr. Humphrey’s research is the extensive use of videography to record social interaction and communication. In Nicaragua, the use of video has been crucial when analyzing the productive power of public discourses to racialize disease and covertly blame the sufferers. Videographic methods have also fueled his deep interest in exploring the various ways in which anthropologists use visual media to capture “raw data” and\/or produce ethnographic representations. He has produced and edited several anthropological films, most of them in collaboration with students, colleagues, and Native American community activists in Northern Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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\n \n Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation (RARE)<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/a><\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \n Shuar Health and Life History Project<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/a><\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nUS Midlife Mortality Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\nDr. Michelle Parsons is building on her work on the Russian mortality crisis, published in her book “Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis”<\/a> published by Vanderbilt Press in 2014. Her current research, is focused on the US midlife mortality crisis in a county in Northern Arizona. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation (1658528).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n \n Experiences of COVID-19 Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Hardy and Dr. Mundell started a research project in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic and social shutdowns were ramping up. The research involves ethnographic interviews with Americans from a range of demographics. Hardy and Mundell wanted to characterize and understand power, policy, health, inequality, illness and justice from a holistic perspective. This kind of understanding, in Hardy’s words, can only be achieved through collaboration with communities and across disciplines.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n \n \n Political Anthropology of Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Nata<\/strong>ša Gari<\/strong>ć-Humphrey<\/strong>‘s research is focused on intergenerational dynamics and social movements in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her most recent work, “Negotiating “True” Politics: Intergenerational Dynamics During Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/a>” is featured in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n Ailing Miskitu lobster divers in Nicaragua Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n \n\nDr. Clinton Humphrey’s research is focus on ailing Miskitu lobster divers in Nicaragua. As the lobster industry has slowly collapsed along the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, so have the bodies and livelihoods of thousands of men suffering from chronic decompression sickness. The overarching aim of Dr. Humphrey’s research has been to track the ways in which illnesses come into being and persist for these commercial divers, as they struggle to navigate an exploitive transnational seafood industry in addition to the dangerous undersea ecologies where they must carry out their work. This context of suffering has inspired ongoing studies of how globalized political-economic processes converge with the generative embodied practices—including communicative practices—shaping perceptions of illness, the environment, and the precarity of one’s labors.<\/p>\n
An important aspect of Dr. Humphrey’s research is the extensive use of videography to record social interaction and communication. In Nicaragua, the use of video has been crucial when analyzing the productive power of public discourses to racialize disease and covertly blame the sufferers. Videographic methods have also fueled his deep interest in exploring the various ways in which anthropologists use visual media to capture “raw data” and\/or produce ethnographic representations. He has produced and edited several anthropological films, most of them in collaboration with students, colleagues, and Native American community activists in Northern Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Dr. Michelle Parsons is building on her work on the Russian mortality crisis, published in her book “Dying Unneeded: The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis”<\/a> published by Vanderbilt Press in 2014. Her current research, is focused on the US midlife mortality crisis in a county in Northern Arizona. This research is funded by the National Science Foundation (1658528).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Dr. Hardy and Dr. Mundell started a research project in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic and social shutdowns were ramping up. The research involves ethnographic interviews with Americans from a range of demographics. Hardy and Mundell wanted to characterize and understand power, policy, health, inequality, illness and justice from a holistic perspective. This kind of understanding, in Hardy’s words, can only be achieved through collaboration with communities and across disciplines.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Dr. Nata<\/strong>ša Gari<\/strong>ć-Humphrey<\/strong>‘s research is focused on intergenerational dynamics and social movements in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her most recent work, “Negotiating “True” Politics: Intergenerational Dynamics During Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina<\/a>” is featured in Political and Legal Anthropology Review.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n Dr. Clinton Humphrey’s research is focus on ailing Miskitu lobster divers in Nicaragua. As the lobster industry has slowly collapsed along the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, so have the bodies and livelihoods of thousands of men suffering from chronic decompression sickness. The overarching aim of Dr. Humphrey’s research has been to track the ways in which illnesses come into being and persist for these commercial divers, as they struggle to navigate an exploitive transnational seafood industry in addition to the dangerous undersea ecologies where they must carry out their work. This context of suffering has inspired ongoing studies of how globalized political-economic processes converge with the generative embodied practices—including communicative practices—shaping perceptions of illness, the environment, and the precarity of one’s labors.<\/p>\n An important aspect of Dr. Humphrey’s research is the extensive use of videography to record social interaction and communication. In Nicaragua, the use of video has been crucial when analyzing the productive power of public discourses to racialize disease and covertly blame the sufferers. Videographic methods have also fueled his deep interest in exploring the various ways in which anthropologists use visual media to capture “raw data” and\/or produce ethnographic representations. He has produced and edited several anthropological films, most of them in collaboration with students, colleagues, and Native American community activists in Northern Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/i> Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n Learn about the lab facilities<\/a> that our faculty and students conduct their research in.<\/p>\nExperiences of COVID-19 Accordion Closed<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n
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