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Kenneth Maes—Curriculum Vitae

KENNETH C. MAES School of Language, , and , Oregon State University 228 Waldo Hall, Corvallis, OR, USA [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2012-present Assistant Professor of , School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University (September 2012-present) 2010-2012 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University (August 2010–August 2012)

EDUCATION

2010 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Emory University Dissertation: Social determinants of food insecurity, common mental disorders, and motivations among AIDS care volunteers in urban Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis Committee Chair: Craig Hadley 2007 M.A. in Anthropology, Emory University Advisors: George Armelagos, Peter Brown 2002 B.A. in Physical Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Summa cum laude

2000-2001 Undergraduate Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon University of California Education Abroad Program

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

2012-present The Women’s Development Army in rural Ethiopia: discourses and experiences of health worker status, motivation, and well-being.

2011-2012 The effects of polio eradication efforts on routine immunization, primary health care, and vaccine refusal: a multi-country study.

2010-2012 Socio-demographic predictors and psycho-social outcomes of health care volunteering among youth in Jimma, Ethiopia.

2010-2011 Water insecurity and psychological distress among women in South Gondar, Ethiopia.

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2006-2009 Food insecurity, well-being and motivations among volunteer HIV/AIDS caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

RESEARCH GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2014 U.S. National Science Foundation Program Research Experience for Graduate Students (REG) Supplement. $5000. “How the Women’s Development Army Reshapes Water Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia.” PI: Kenneth Maes, Co-PI: Yihenew Tesfaye. 2014 U.S. National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Dissertation Improvement Grant (#1357684). $22,790. “Adoptee or Immigrant? An Ethnographic Comparison of Development and Well-being Among Adopted and Migrant Ethiopian Youth in the United States.” PI: Kenneth Maes, Co-PI: Jamie Petts. 2013 Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship. $10,000. PI: Kenneth Maes. 2012 U.S. National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Grant (#1155271/1153926). $199,997. “Health volunteers in rural Ethiopia: discourses and experiences of status, motivation, and well-being.” PIs: Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser (Middlebury College). 2011 Middlebury College, Research Consultancy, “Examining the effects of polio eradication efforts on routine immunization and primary health care.” PI: Svea Closser (Middlebury College). 2010 National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (# T32 HD007338-23). Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University. PI: Michael White. 2008 U.S. National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Dissertation Improvement Grant (#67062516). $13,325. “Altruism in the face of stigmatization: Volunteering to provide home-based care for people living with AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” PI: Peter J. Brown, Co-PI: Kenneth Maes 2008 Emory University Global Health Institute Small Program Grant. $5000. 2007 Emory University AIDS International Training and Research Program Grant (NIH/FIC #D43TW01042) $2000. PI: Carlos del Rio, Co-PI: Kenneth Maes 2004 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

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ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS 2011 African Studies Association, Health and Medicine Interest Group, Young Scholar 2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society Scholars Program, Finalist 2010 Society for , Peter K. New Award, Second Prize 2009 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, Graduate Dissertation Research YouTube Video Production Award, “AIDS care volunteers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”

2009 Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Christine Wilson Award, Honorable Mention 2007 Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Emory University, Graduate Award for Excellence in African Studies 2002 College of Letters & Science, UC Santa Barbara, Academic Excellence Award 2002 Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara, Award for Research Promise in Anthropology 2000 Education Abroad Program, UC Santa Barbara, Jeannie Anderson Memorial Award

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Forthcoming Maes, Kenneth. “The Labor and Lives of Community Health Workers: AIDS Care Volunteers in Urban Ethiopia.” Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press (Publication expected fall 2016).

Journal Issues

2015 Maes, Kenneth (Guest Editor). Community Health Workers and Social Change: Global and Local Perspectives. Annals of Anthropological Practice 39(1).

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Under review Maes, K.C. “From experts’ tools to collective agents of change: studying up and down to understand community health worker labor in Ethiopia.” Critical African Studies special issue, “Up the Africanist” (Guest editors: Rebecca Peters and Claire Wendland).

In Press Closser, S., A. Rosenthal, K. Maes, J. Justice, and K. Cox. “The global context of vaccine refusals: Insights from a systematic comparative of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.” Quarterly (Accepted 1/29/2015).

In Press Maes, K.C., Svea Closser, Ethan Vorel, and Yihenew Tesfaye. “A Women’s Development Army: Narratives of community health worker investment and empowerment in rural Ethiopia.” Journal of Comparative International Development special issue, “Population and Development: Comparative Anthropological Perspectives” (Guest editors: Daniel Jordan Smith and Jennifer Johnson-Hanks). DOI: 10.1007/s12116-015-9197-z

2015 Maes, K.C. “Community Health Workers and Social Justice: An Introduction.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 39(1): 1-15.

2015 Maes, K.C., Svea Closser, Ethan Vorel, and Yihenew Tesfaye. “Using Community Health Workers: Discipline and Hierarchy in Ethiopia’s Women’s Development Army.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 39(1): 42-57.

2015 Maes, K.C. “Task-shifting in global health: Mental health implications for community health workers and volunteers.” In Global Mental Health: An Anthropological Reader, ed. B. Kohrt and E. Mendenhall. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 291-307. 2014 Maes, K.C. “Confronting death and discrimination: Volunteer Community Health Workers and AIDS treatment interventions in urban Ethiopia.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29(1): 97-115. 2014 Maes, K.C., S. Closser, and I. Kalofonos. “Listening to community health workers: How ethnographic research can inform positive relationships between CHWs, health institutions, and communities.” American Journal of 104(5): e5-e9. 2014 Closser, S., K. Cox, T. Parris, M. Landis, J. Justice, R. Gopinath, K. Maes, H. Banteyerga, I. Z. Mohammed, A.M. Dukku, P. Omidian, E. Varley, P. Tedoff, A. Koon, M. Cambumba, L. Nyirazinyoye, M. Luck, F. Pont, V. Neergheen, P. Nsubuga, N. Thacker, R. Jooma, and M. Gatera. 2013. “The impact of polio eradication on routine immunization and primary health

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care: a mixed-methods study.” Journal of Infectious Diseases 210(suppl 1): S504-S513. 2013 Maes, K.C. and Ippolytos Kalofonos. “Becoming community health workers: Perspectives from Ethiopia and Mozambique.” Social Science & Medicine 87: 52-59. 2012 Closser, S., A. Rosenthal, T. Parris, K. Maes, J. Justice, K. Cox, M. Luck, M. Landis, J. Grove, P. Tedoff, L. Venczel, P. Nsubuga, J. Kuzara, and V. Neergheen. "Methods for evaluating the impact of vertical programs on health systems: Protocol for a study on the impact of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on strengthening routine immunization and primary health care." BMC Public Health 12:728. 2012 Maes, K.C. “Volunteerism or labor exploitation? Harnessing and sustaining the volunteer spirit for AIDS treatment programs in urban Ethiopia.” Human Organization 71(1): 54-64. 2012 Stevenson, E.G.J., L. Greene, K.C. Maes, A. Ambelu, C. Hadley, and R. Rheingans. “Water insecurity in three dimensions: An anthropological perspective on water and women’s psychosocial distress in Ethiopia.” Social Science & Medicine 75: 392-400. 2011 Maes, K.C. and S. Shifferaw. “Cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and psychosocial stress among AIDS care volunteers in urban Ethiopia.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 35(1): 98-115, Special issue “HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Solutions” (B. Brenton, J. Mazzeo, A. Rodlach, eds). 2011 Maes, K.C., S. Shifferaw, C. Hadley, and F. Tesfaye. "Volunteer Home- Based HIV/AIDS Care and Food Crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Sustainability in the Face of Chronic Food Insecurity" Health Policy and Planning, 26(1): 43-52, PMID20439347, PMC3010766 2010 Maes, K.C., C. Hadley, F. Tesfaye, and S. Shifferaw. "Food Insecurity and Mental Health: Surprising Trends among Community Health Volunteers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the 2008 Food Crisis" Social Science & Medicine, 70(9): 1450-1457, PMID20189698, PMC3085846 2010 Maes, K.C. "Examining Health-Care Volunteerism in a Food- and Financially-Insecure World" Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88(11): 867-869, PMID21076569, PMC2971508 2009 Maes, K.C., C. Hadley, F. Tesfaye, S. Shifferaw, and Y. A. Tesfaye. "Food Insecurity among Volunteer AIDS Caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was Highly Prevalent but Buffered from the 2008 Food Crisis" Journal of Nutrition, 139(9): 1758-1764, PMID19640968

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NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles and Book Chapters Forthcoming Maes, K.C. “Human Resources for Health.” In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, eds. H. Callan and C. Panter-Brick. Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming Tesfaye, Y., J. Petts, and K.C. Maes. “Ethiopia.” In Women’s Lives Around the World, eds. S. Shaw and K. Freehling-Burton. ABC-CLIO. 2012 Williams-Maes, C. and K.C. Maes. "The Marvelous City and the Garden of Refuse." In Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth, eds. E. Mendenhall and A. Koon. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 315-322. 2011 Brown, P. J., G. Armelagos, and K.C. Maes. "Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease." In Companion to Medical Anthropology, ed. M. Singer and P. Erickson, 253-270. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010 Maes, K. “Fear, Shame, and Reputation in Decisions to Help Friends.” In Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship. Daniel Hruschka. Berkeley: University of California Press. p.28. 2009 Maes, K.C. and G. Okpattah. "The Accident." In Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth, ed. E. Mendenhall, pp. 169-175. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2007 Turner, B., K.C. Maes, J. Sweeney, and G. Armelagos. "Human Evolution, Diet and Nutrition: When Bodies Meet the Buffet." In Evolutionary Medicine and Health: New Perspectives, ed. W. R. Trevathan, E. O. Smith, and J. J. Mckenna, 55-71. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2006 Armelagos, G. J. and K.C. Maes. "Revisiting the Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis; a Response to Fatimah L. C. Jackson's Commentary" Transforming Anthropology, 14(1): 67-76. 2005 Levy, T. E., M. Najjar, A. Muniz, S. Malena, E. Monroe, M. Beherec, N. G. Smith, T. Higham, S. Munger, and K.C. Maes. "Iron Age Burial in the Lowlands of Edom: The 2004 Excavations at Wadi Fidan 40, Jordan" Annual of the Department of Antiquities Jordan, 49: 443-487.

Book Reviews 2015 Maes, K.C. AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face. Daniel Jordan Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. American Ethnologist 42(3): 568-9. 2014 Maes, K.C. Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, Eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. American Journal of Human Biology 26:431-2.

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Commentaries 2014 K.C. Maes and G.J. Armelagos. Comment on Amber Wutich and Alexandra Brewis’ “Food, Water, and Scarcity: Toward a Broader Anthropology of Resource Insecurity.” Current Anthropology 55(4):456-7. 2010 Maes, K., B. Kohrt, and S. Closser. 2010. "Culture, Status and Context in Community Health Worker Pay: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Policy Research" Social Science & Medicine, 71(8): 1375-1378, PMID20667639 2009 Hadley, C. and K.C. Maes. "A New Global Monitoring System for Food Insecurity" The Lancet, 374(9697): 1223-1224, PMID19819376 2006 G.J. Armelagos and K.C. Maes. Comment on Jean-Pierre Bouquet-Appel and Stephan Naji's "Testing the Hypothesis of a Worldwide Neolithic Demographic Transition: Corroboration from American Cemeteries" Current Anthropology, 47(2): 341-366. 2005 Maes, K.C. and G. J. Armelagos. Comment on Margaret Lock's "The Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination" Current Anthropology, 46S: S63-S64. Editorials 2012 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. New Program in Food, Culture and Social Justice at Oregon State University. Anthropology News, October 2012. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2012 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. Hunger Strikes and Food Protests. Anthropology News, May 2012. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2012 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. Post-field Collaboration among Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers. Anthropology News, April 2012. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2012 A. Young and Maes, K.C. Food and the Occupy Movement. Anthropology News, January 2012. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2011 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. New public-private partnerships and the local production of chickpea-based emergency foods in Ethiopia. Anthropology News, December 2011. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2011 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. Review of Annals of Anthropological Practice Special Issue on HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anthropology News, November 2011. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2011 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. Review of NAPA Bulletin Special Issue on Migration and Health. Anthropology News, May 2011. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN).

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2011 Maes, K.C. and A. Young. Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods in the News. Anthropology News, January 2011. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2010 Armelagos, G.J. and Maes, K.C. Contaminated Cuisine and the Omnivore’s Dilemma. Anthropology News, December 2010. Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2015 “The micropolitics of task-shifting and care-giving in Ethiopia: a comparative biosocial analysis of urban AIDS care and rural maternal and child health care.” Paper invited for presentation at the Anthropology and Global Health Conference, organized by the European Association of Social Anthropologists and the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Medical Anthropology Committee. University of Sussex, UK, September 11, 2015. “They work with the discipline of an army”: understanding the political and moral economy of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program and Women’s Development Army. Paper to be presented at the annual meetings of the African Studies Association. San Diego, CA, November 20, 2015. “Tailoring data collection and presentation methods for water insecurity studies in Ethiopia.” Paper co-authored with Yihenew Tesfaye, Jed Stevenson, and Matt Freeman, to be presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO, November 21, 2015. “Competition, cooperation, and co-optation: understanding the rapidly changing context of women's water use and management in rural Ethiopia.” Paper co-authored with Yihenew Tesfaye, presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Pittsburgh, PA, March 26, 2015. 2014 “Anthropology-Public Health Hybrids and the Re-Socialization of Community Health Workers.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC, November 2014. 2013 “Studying up and looking down: health professionals’ reflections on humility and inequality in urban Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL, November 2013. “Overcoming death and difference: Volunteer caregivers, patients, and AIDS treatment interventions.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Denver, CO, March 20, 2013. 2012 “Development armies and frontline health workers: Examining the influence of military metaphors on community health labor in Ethiopia and beyond.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2012.

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“Community health volunteering: a means to socioeconomic progress and moral development for urban Ethiopian youth?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 1, 2012. “Community health volunteering among youth in urban Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the 10th annual Wits-Brown-Colorado-APHRC Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 1, 2012. 2011 “AIDS care volunteerism and food insecurity in Ethiopia and Mozambique: a comparative analysis.” Paper co-authored with Ippolytos Kalofonos, presented at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 18, 2011. “Community health volunteerism: public health, political-economic, and anthropological perspectives.” Paper presented at the African Studies Association Health in Africa Workshop, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2011. (One of two papers selected for inclusion in the Young Scholars Speaker Panel.) “Youth and community health volunteerism in southwest Ethiopia: Who is volunteering and why?” Paper presented at the 9th annual Wits-Brown- Colorado-APHRC Conference, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, April 4, 2011. “Building motivational consensus through ritual: a novel approach to the sustainability of volunteer AIDS care in urban Ethiopia.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, WA, March 31, 2011. “Fertility control and reproduction among low-income volunteer community health workers in urban Ethiopia: a demographic approach to health workforce sustainability.” Poster accepted for the annual meetings of the Population Association of America (withdrawn due to scheduling conflict with presentation at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meetings). 2010 “Water, women and development in Ethiopia: How water, sanitation and hygiene relate to psychosocial stress.” Poster presented at the 2010 Global Health and Water Symposium, Brown University, October 18, 2010. “Religious motivation and social control: Unpaid ‘volunteer’ AIDS care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” Paper circulated at the AIDS, Religion, and Social Activism workshop organized by the International Research Network on AIDS and Religion, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 5-9, 2010. “Volunteerism or labor exploitation? The micro-politics of unpaid AIDS care in the midst of chronic food insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico, March 27, 2010.

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“Accidents, alcohol, and AIDS: Real life and fiction in an urban Ghanaian narrative” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico, March 24, 2010.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

2015 “What can we learn from community health workers (CHWs) in low- income countries? Perspectives from urban and rural Ethiopia.” Invited lecture for visiting scholars from Fu-Jen University, Oregon State University Center for Global Health, August 26, 2015. “Digging deeper: Beneath Ethiopia’s recent progress in maternal health indicators.” Oregon State University, 4th annual Condom Couture Fashion Show, organized by Partners in Health-Engage OSU Chapter, May 6, 2015. “Exploiting women’s labor in a humanitarian industry: Behind narratives of community health worker investment in Ethiopia.” Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, March 9, 2015. “Behind narratives of community health worker investment and empowerment in rural Ethiopia: Listening to Women’s Development Army leaders and Health Extension Workers in Amhara.” University of Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, February 13, 2015. 2014 “Ethiopia’s new Women’s Development Army: Reducing maternal and child mortality and empowering women?” Anthropology & Population Workshop, Population Studies & Training Center, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, March 15, 2014. 2013 “Cheap labor for global health: Perspectives from Ethiopia.” Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, November 4, 2013.

“Heroes of HIV: Volunteer caregivers, food insecurity, and mental health in Addis Ababa.” Africa Initiative, Oregon State University, November 6, 2013.

“Volunteerism or labor exploitation? Harnessing the volunteer spirit to sustain AIDS treatment programs in urban Ethiopia.” International Health Conference, Oregon State University, May 18, 2013.

“Heroes of HIV: Volunteer caregivers, food insecurity, and mental health in Addis Ababa.” Anthropology Department Speaker Series, University of Oregon, March 1, 2013.

2011 “Volunteerism in Ethiopian community health workforces: A form of labor exploitation?” Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, March 4, 2011.

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“Motivating community volunteers to address AIDS, maternal, and newborn mortality in Ethiopia: the role of mental satisfaction.” Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, February 3, 2011.

2010 “Tapping the volunteer spirit in Ethiopian community health workforces: a humanitarian veneer for labor exploitation?” Working Group on Anthropology & Population, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, December 3, 2010.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED OR CHAIRED

2016 “Community health workers at the intersection of social, economic, and population health change.” Session organized and chaired for the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada, March 2016. 2013 “Applying Anthropological Theory to HIV/AIDS in Africa.” Session chaired for the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Denver, CO, March 2013. “Medical Anthropology: Community Resources for Sustainable Health Care. Session Chaired for the 3rd Annual International Health Conference, Oregon State University, May 18, 2013. 2012 “Agents of Biosocial Change: Frontline Health Workers.” Session co- organized (with Michelle Dynes) and chaired for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2012. 2011 “The Expanding Influence of Volunteerism: Problems, Practice, and Pedagogy.” Session co-organized with Josh Fisher for the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, WA, March 31, 2011. 2010 “Volunteerism in Crisis: Rights, Ritual, and Reason.” Session organized for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2010. “Using Narratives in Teaching Global Health to Young People: Possibilities, Problems and Practice.” Session co-organized with Emily Mendenhall and Peter Brown for the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico, March 24, 2010.

PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY

2015 Public webinar: “What can we learn from community health workers in low-income countries? Perspectives from rural Ethiopia.” Presentation

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invited by the Oregon Health Authority Office of Equity and Inclusion, August 20, 2015.

2013 Interviewed for Public Radio International’s The World “Tracking Charity” Series (Reporter: Amy Costello). “Thousands of health workers in Senegal receive no pay. Is that fair?”

TEACHING

Graduate Courses at Oregon State University

ANTH 574 Cross-Cultural Health and Healing ANTH 561 ANTH 542 Human Adaptability (previously Biocultural Perspectives on Human Biology, renamed in 2014) ANTH 543 Human Osteology Laboratory ANTH 544

Undergraduate Courses at Oregon State University

ANTH 374 Anthropology and Global Health ANTH 474 Cross-Cultural Health and Healing ANTH 461 Neuroanthropology ANTH 442 Biocultural Perspectives on Human Biology (renamed Human Adaptability) ANTH 443 Human Osteology Laboratory ANTH 444 Nutritional Anthropology ANTH 315 Peoples of the World: Africa ANTH 315H Peoples of the World: Africa (Honors College)

Undergraduate Courses at Brown University

ANTH 1310 International Health: Anthropological Perspectives

Undergraduate Courses at Emory University

ANTH 280R Anthropological Perspectives on Africa ANTH 385 AIDS in Africa through Film ANTH 312 Human Skeletal Biology

International Field School Programs 2010 Psychology in the South Pacific (10 undergraduate students). An international 6-week summer program offered by the Center for International Programs Abroad at Emory University and directed by Professor Philippe Rochat. I served as a Program and Teaching Assistant to

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supervise students’ field research projects, home stays, and daily activities, and to assist in program accounting and expense reporting. 2004 Archaeological Field School in Southern Jordan (24 undergraduate students). An intensive 6-week summer program offered by the University of California, San Diego, which trains undergraduate and graduate students in the most current aspects of archaeological method and theory. Under the direction of Professor Thomas Levy, I supervised the provenance and field analysis of all human remains excavated during the 6-week program, and delivered a lecture on theory and methods.

Graduate Student Advising: As Major Professor

Jamie Petts, Anthropology, Ph.D. Committee Chair, 2012-present Yihenew Tesfaye, Anthropology, Ph.D Committee Chair, 2013-present Maria Danna, Anthropology, M.A. Committee Chair, 2015-present

Graduate Student Advising: As Committee Member

Jenney Lee, Anthropology, M.A. Committee member, 2014-present Jessica Currier, Public Health, MPH. Committee Member, 2014-present Elba Moise, Anthropology, M.A., Public Health, MPH. Committee Member, 2014-present Jennifer Schindell, Anthropology, M.A. Committee Member, 2014-present Courtney Everson, Anthropology, Ph.D. Committee Member, 2012-present Holly Horan, Anthropology, Ph.D. Committee Member, 2012-present Caroline “Sudy” Storm, Anthropology, M.A. Committee Member, 2012-present Susanna Snyder, Anthropology, Ph.D. Committee Member, 2012-present Bonnie Ruder, Anthropology, M.A. Committee Member, 2012-2013 Nicole Lasich, Public Health, MPH. Committee Member, 2012-2013 Lindsay Marshall, Anthropology, M.A. Committee Member, 2012

Undergraduate Honors Theses Advised

Sarah Jacobi, University Honors Thesis Advisor, 2013-present Selina Qiuying Liu, Honors and International degree, Committee Member, 2012-2013

SERVICE

To the Profession

2014-present Senior Research Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program.

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2011-present Editorial Board Member, “Anthropology and Global Public Health: Critical Approaches and Constructive Solutions.” Left Coast Press Book Series. 2012-2015 Secretary-Treasurer and Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2010-2015 Juror, Christine Wilson Award, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). 2010-2012 Contributing Editor to Anthropology News and Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN).

Journal Article Peer Referee (number of manuscripts reviewed per journal in parentheses): Current Anthropology (3) Social Science and Medicine (9) Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (2) Human Organization (2) Bulletin of the World Health Organization (1) Global Public Health (1) Ecology of Food and Nutrition (1) BMC Health Services Research (1)

Oregon State University 2015 Judge, University Honors College Thesis Fair 2014 Judge, University Honors College Thesis Fair 2014 Faculty Leader, University Honors College Book Discussion 2014-present Faculty Advisor, Patners in Health Engage (SSO) 2014-present Voting Faculty Member, Student Health Advisory Board (SHAB) 2014-present Member, Infectious Disease Response Team (IDRT) 2014-present Member, Leadership Committee, Humanitarian Engineering Initiative (Collaboration between College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts) 2014-present Member, Center for Global Health, College of Public Health and Human Sciences 2014-present Member, Africa Initiative

OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society 2014 Panel Organizer, Ebola: The Reality of an Epidemic (Fall 2014) 2014 Organizer, Cultural Consensus Analysis: Concepts and Methods Workshop (Fall 2014)

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2013 Committee Member / Juror, SLCS Graduate Research Award (Winter 2013)

OSU Anthropology Program 2015-present Director of Graduate Studies 2013-present Faculty Advisor, Lambda Alpha National Honors Society for Anthropology, Oregon State University chapter 2012-present Personnel Committee 2012-present Curriculum Development, B.A. Concentration 2013 Search Committee, / Cultural Anthropology Instructor Position

To the Public/Community 2014-present Member, Oregon Community Health Workers Research Consortium 2014-present Vice President, Corvallis-Gondar Sister City Association (C-GSCA). 2013-2014 At Large Board Member, Corvallis-Gondar Sister City Association (C- GSCA). 2011 Member, Rhode Island Department of Health Refugee Health Program and the African Alliance of Rhode Island. Attended meetings and prepared English language Focus Group Discussion (FGD) guide to administer to Rhode Island refugee participants in a psychosocial health needs assessment conducted by the African Alliance of Rhode Island.

2007-2008 Copy Editor, Sub-Saharan Informer (international newspaper), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Other Professional and Service Activities 2011 Discussion Co-facilitator, “Publication, Peer Review, and Authorship,” BEARCORE Training in Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Research for undergraduate and graduate students, Brown University. 2008 Graduate Student Representative, Emory University–Addis Ababa University capacity building strategic planning committee. 2007 Dialogue Co-facilitator, Transforming Community Project, Emory University. 2004-2006 Panel and Event Co-organizer, Institute of African Studies Graduate Student Forum, Emory University.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Memberships

American Anthropological Association Society for Applied Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Society for Medical Anthropology National Association for the Practice of Anthropology

Professional Development Activities

2014 Participant, Faculty Global Learning Community, Oregon State University, Winter Term (Chair: Larry Becker)

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