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Research Interests

• Medical Anthropology

• Psychological Anthropology

• Psychiatric Anthropology

• Public Anthropology

• Applied Anthropology

• Health Equity

• Anthropology of Care

• Health Services Research

• Madness, Trauma and Recovery

• Mixed Methods

• Social Inequality

• North America

• Tanzania

Recent News:

People with serious mental illness experiencing homelessness are often involved in mental health and criminal justice systems. Dr. Neely Myers (@neelymyers), one of our anthropology professors, and her team, including °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Health and Society majors, discuss how to use "slow engagement" to help people engage in care that can help keep them out of jail and off the streets. (Photo credit: Dan Burton at Unsplash)

Even though there are documented gendered dimensions of distress due to globalization and climate change, there is sparse literature on women who hear voices globally. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Anthropology professor Neely Myers (@neelymyers) and her team report findings from there mixed-methods study in Tanzania with Maasai women. .

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Anthropology professor, Neely Myers (@neelymyers) has published a new article in Social Science and Medicine-Mental Health highlighting the importance of the "ecosocial self" as a relevant theoretical construct for understanding and supporting the well-being among people who experience themselves as intimately linked to their land. .

Courses Taught

ANTH 2301 - Introductory Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3303 - Self, Culture and Mind: Introduction to Psychological Anthropology
ANTH 3306 - Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH 4318 - Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective (formerly ANTH 5336)
ANTH 4319 - Research Methods in Ethnology (formerly ANTH 5344)
ANTH 4343 - Biomedicine, Culture, and Power
ANTH 5336 - Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 5344 - Research Methods in Ethnology
ANTH 6317 - Advanced Seminar in Ethnology II: The Good Life? Crisis, Care and Recovery from an Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 6317 - Advanced Seminar in Ethnology II: Global Mental Health
ANTH 6318 - Health in Cross-Cultural Perspective (formerly ANTH 5336)
ANTH 6319 - Research Methods in Ethnology (formerly ANTH 5344)
ANTH 7333 - Data Analysis