Medical Anthropology

Nikketa Burges is a second-year graduate student in Medical Anthropology whose work focuses on harm reduction and unsheltered homelessness. Her paper on morbidity and mortality linked to encampment sweeps, written in Fall 2023, was edited, and published in Deceleration in May 2024. She has presented on her work assisting Marty...

We had great representation at the SfAAs in Portland this March, thanks to panels on legalized psilocybin in Colorado and arts-based approaches to destigmatize People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) organized by Dr. Marty Otañez . MA student Ellie Hedt presented: “A Web-Based App for Qualitative Data Analysis to Humanize PWUD;”...

Yael Greenberg is completing a thesis based on 14 interviews with midwives, birth center staff, and key informants to discover the structural and cultural barriers to the reliance on a midwifery model of care in the United States despite ample research demonstrating its efficacy (if not superiority) for low-risk patients...

Dr. Christine Sargent is wrapping up several publications and is waiting for copy edits on her forthcoming monograph Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan, which will be out with Rutgers University Press in Fall 2025 or Winter 2026. She is stuck in the proverbial quicksand with...

Dr. Marty Otañez and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, of the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, published the co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. Chapter contributors cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and...

Dr. Sarah Horton recently published an article in Social Science & Medicine that showed that as Latinx immigrants began arriving in Colorado’s mountain resort area-- a relatively “new destination” for settlement-- staff at a public hospital conceptualized them as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image , implementing spatializing...