Katherine Hirschfeld

Katherine Hirschfeld Curriculum Vitae

Department of Anthropology University of Oklahoma 455 West Lindsey Norman, Oklahoma 73019 405 325-7462 [email protected]

Current Position Assistant Professor (2002-present) Department of Anthropology University of Oklahoma

Previous Position Visiting Assistant Professor (2000-2002) Department of Anthropology Agnes Scott College Atlanta, Georgia

Research Interests Medical anthropology, political economy of health, post-socialism, organized crime, public health, and infectious disease. Area specialization in 20th century Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean.

Education Emory University PhD Anthropology 2001

Dissertation: “Socialism, Health and Medicine in Cuba: A Critical Reanalysis.”

Dissertation Advisor: Peter J. Brown (chair)

Emory University MA Anthropology 1996

University of Massachusetts, Amherst BA Anthropology, 1991

Grants and Awards Research Fellow, Pan-American Development Foundation, December 2006 University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Research Grant, summer 2006 University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate Research Award, spring 2005 University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, summer 2003 Emory University Marjorie Shostak Award for Ethnographic Writing, 2001 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Research Grant, 1997 Atlanta, Massey Foundation Award for Research in Improving Health Care Delivery, 1996 Association of Women in Science Award, 1994 Emory University Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1999 University of Kentucky, Mellon Foundation Grant for Predoctoral Research, 1994 University of Kentucky, University Fellowship, 1991-1992 Winner, 1991 Northeastern Anthropological Association Graduate Student Paper Competition (as an undergraduate) 1991

PUBLICATIONS

Books 2007 Health, Politics and Revolution in Cuba since 1898. New Brunswick: Transaction Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles 2007 Reexamining the Cuban Health Care System: Toward a Qualitative Critique. Under review, Cuban Affairs.

2005 The Psychology of Political Dissent in Revolutionary Cuba: A Comparative Analysis. Mind and Human Interaction, 14(2):89-109.

1992 Epidemic of Pride: Pellagra and the Culture of the American South. Anthropologica 34, pp. 89- 103.

Papers in Progress Show Trials and the Ritual Purification of Hypermodernity in the USSR. Invited contribution, Wenner-Gren International Symposium on Ritual Communication. To be published by Berg Press, 2009.

‘Speaking Chinese’ in the Special Period: Cold War Rhetoric, Economic Recentralization and Popular Resistance in Cuba. To be presented at the Havinghurst Center Conference on Culture, Politics and Memory of the Cold War. October 2007.

The Political Economy of Typhoid Fever in Cuba from 1925 to 1952. For submission to Social Science and Medicine.

Hypermodernity and the Optimization of Mankind: The Totalitarian Paradigm and Theory in Anthropology. For submission to Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Book Chapters 2007 Sociolismo and the Underground Clinic: The Informal Economy and Health Services in Cuba. In, Cuba in Transition, Jorge Perez-Lopez, ed. Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy.

The Psychology of Dissent in Revolutionary Cuba: A Comparative Analysis. To be reprinted in the 12th Edition of Cuban Communism, Irving Louis Horowitz and Jaime Suchlicki, eds.

Inequality and Health in Contemporary Cuba: Late Socialism and Emerging Infectious Disease. To be included in Rethinking Inequalities and Differences in Medicine. Matthew Ramsey and Larry Churchill, eds. Under Review, McGraw-Hill.

2001 The Political Economy of Caudillismo: An Anthropological Critique of Recent Economic Reforms in Cuba. In Cuban Communism, 10th Edition, Irving Louis Horowitz and Jaime Suchlicki, eds. New Brunswick: Transaction Press, pp. 160-181.

Book Reviews 2007 Review of Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context (2005) Franklin Knight and Teresita Martínez-Vergne, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Cuban Affairs.

2005 Review of Armus, Diego (2003) Disease in the History of Modern Latin American: From Malaria to AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press. The Latin Americanist, 48(2): 101-103.

Other Papers 2002 Key Issues Regarding the Cuban Health Care System. Briefing paper prepared for Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia.

Treatment Guide for Substance Abuse Providers in Georgia. Sections on Hispanic and Post- Soviet Immigrant treatment issues (with Rebecca Peters) for Behavioral Research Consulting, Inc. Under the direction of Dr. Fred Marsteller.

Scholarly Presentations A Tale of Two Epidemics: Cuba’s 1997 Dengue Fever Outbreak in Scholarly Discourse and Dissident Narratives. Presented at the Society for Medical Anthropology Meetings, Tampa, Florida March 2007.

Sociolismo and the Informal Economy in Health Services in Cuba. Presented at the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Miami, Florida August 2006. Health Trends in Post-Soviet Cuba: Privatization, Inequality and Emerging Infectious Disease. Presented at the Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. May 2006.

Inequality and Health in Contemporary Cuba: Late Socialism and Emerging Infectious Disease. Presented at Rethinking Inequalities and Differences in Medicine, Vanderbilt University, April 2005.

Health, Propaganda and the Infectious Other: A Critical Reading of Biowarfare Allegations between the United States and Cuba. Presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2003.

Utopianism, Anxiety and Erasure: The Psychology of Political Dissent in Revolutionary Cuba. 8th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, California, April 2003.

Medicine and Social Change: Deconstructing the Socialist Ideal. Presented at the 100th annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 27, 2001. Washington, D.C.

Socialism and Health Transition in Cuba: A Critical Reanalysis. Presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Association of the Study for the Cuban Economy, August 2-4, 2001. Coral Gables, Florida.

The Politics of Vice: State-Building, Organized Crime and Political Process in Early Republican Cuba. Paper presented at the second annual Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, March, 1999.

Politics and Public Health in Early Republican Cuba. Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, 1998. Chicago, Illinois.

Tierra Brava: Kinship, Power and Cultural Fantasy in a Cuban Telenovella. Presented at the American Anthropological Association, 1998. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Politics and the Culture of Work in the Dual Cuban Economy: An Anthropological Analysis. Presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, August 6-8, 1998. Coral Gables, Florida.

Invited Lectures Organized Crime and Health Declines in Post-Soviet Russia: A Potential Problem for Cuba’s Transition? Presented at the United States Agency for International Development, December 2006.

Health Trends in the Gangster-State: A Social History of Typhoid in Cuba, 1920-1933. University of Oklahoma History of Science Colloquium. November 2005.

Health Trends in the Gangster-State, A Social History of Typhoid in Cuba, 1920-1933. University of Oklahoma Department of Anthropology. February 2005. Political Corruption, Instability and Organized Crime in 20th Century Cuba: Toward an Alternative Model of Underdevelopment. University of Denver School of International Studies. February 2004

Everyday Life in Cuba: An Ethnographic Portrait. Missouri Southern University, Cuba Semester, Invited Lecture. October 2003.

Dengue, 1997: Case Study of a Cuban Epidemic. Missouri Southern University, Cuba Semester Invited Lecture. October 2003.

Post-Socialism and Organized Crime: A Potential Problem for Cuba’s Eventual Transition? Missouri Southern University, Cuba Semester. October 2003.

Everyday Life in Contemporary Cuba. University of Oklahoma Mornings with the Professor Program. April, 2003.

Recent Economic Reforms in Cuba: An Anthropological Critique. University of Oklahoma International Programs Brown Bag Lunch Series. October, 2002.

On Ethnographic Writing. Writing Center, Agnes Scott College. Atlanta, Georgia. September 2001.

Anthropological Fieldwork in Cuba: Issues and Ethical Dilemmas. Institute for Comparative and International Studies. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. November, 2002.

Informal Economies and Civil Society: Issues for Cuba’s Post-Communist Transition. Presented at the Institute for Cuban Studies, Miami, Florida. June, 2000.

The Plague of Empire: U.S. Intervention, Yellow Fever and Caudillismo in Early Republican Cuba. Presented to the History of Medicine Reading Group, Center for the Study of Health, Culture and Society, Emory University. January, 1999.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses Medical Anthropology, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Cultures of Latin America, Peoples of the World, Plagues and Peoples, Gender and Health, Anthropology Capstone

Graduate Courses Medicine and Society, Comparative Health Systems

Ethnographic Field Research

1996-1998 Havana and Santiago, Cuba, PhD dissertation research 1995 Havana and Santiago, Cuba, pilot study

1994 Otavalo and Puyo, Ecuador, pilot study

1993 Otavalo, Ecuador MA research

1993 Rio, Brazil Language training

1990 Napo, Ecuador summer program in rainforest ecology and ethnobotany.

Archival Research

2006 University of South Florida Special Collections, and Ybor City Historical Society. --research on immigration and ethnicity in Ybor City, Florida.

2005 National Archives, Washington, DC --research on organized crime and corruption of the Cuban public health sector in the 1920s and 1930s

2005 National Archives at Ft. Worth, Texas and Washington, DC --research on informal economy in 20th century Cuba

2004 Summer research, National Archives at College Park, Maryland --research on Cuba’s 20th century health history

2003 Summer research, National Archives at College Park, Maryland --research on Cuba’s 20th century health history

2003 Summer research, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. --research on Cuba’s 20th century health history

2001 Summer research, University of Miami --research on Cuba’s 20th century health history

Other Research

2002-2003 Investigator, Community Study of Genetics Research. University of Oklahoma, department of anthropology.

2001-2002 Atlanta, Research Consultant, Behavioral Research Consulting. --Assisted in ethnographic research on ethnic minorities and substance abuse in Georgia.

1998 CARE International, summer intern. --Prepared a CARE technical information packet on recent anthropological and social science research on HIV transmission in the developing world. 1992 University of Kentucky, research assistant, Department of Behavioral Science.

Professional Associations American Anthropological Association, Latin American Studies Association, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Society for the Study of Psychological Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology

Professional Service Reviewer, The Latin Americanist Reviewer, McGraw Hill Textbooks Reviewer, Journal of Radical Studies Reviewer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly Reviewer, Cuban Affairs

University Service University Academic Misconduct Committee, fall 2005-present Fulbright Advisor, 2006-present University Speaker Service, fall 2005-present Member, Review Committee for Medical School Applications, 2005-present Member, Review Committee for College of Arts and Sciences G.W. and Vera Dobbs Pullin and Charles and Janice Drake Scholarship, 2005-present Member, Dean’s committee for designing a new major in Social Sciences and Health Care Studies, University of Oklahoma spring 2003 Faculty Advisor, University of Oklahoma Improvisational Comedy Club. 2002-2005.

Departmental Service Undergraduate Advisor 2006-present Anthropology department liaison, Writing Across the Curriculum 2005-2006

Photography Exhibits City on the Edge of Forever: Havana 1998 University of Denver School of International Studies, February 2004 City on the Edge of Forever: Havana 1998 Missouri Southern University, Cuba Semester, Fall 2003. City on the Edge of Forever: Havana, 1998. Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. January 2001. City on the Edge of Forever: Havana, 1998. Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library. Emory University, January 1999.