Applied Research and Practice from the Next Generation: The NAPA Student Achievement Award-Winning Papers, 2001 - 05ISBN: 978-1-931303-33-0
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244 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Satish Kedia received a Ph.D. in Applied and Medical
Anthropology in 1997 from the University of Kentucky, where he also
earned a Certificate in Medical Behavioral Science. He is currently
Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Director of the
Institute for Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluation (I-SATE) at The
University of Memphis. His research focuses on alcohol and drug
abuse treatment evaluation, caregiving and adherence to treatment
protocols, HIV/AIDS in the United States, health impacts of forced
displacement in India, and pesticide use in the Philippines. Dr.
Kedia has had a wide range of scholarly and applied experiences. He
coedited Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application with
John van Willigen, has authored or coauthored numerous journal
articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, and has
published more than 25 evaluation and policy reports.
([email protected])
Edward Liebow is Senior Research Scientist and Associate
Director of the Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and
Evaluation, and a past President of NAPA. His work focuses on
perceptions of risk, environmental health, and community
development policy. ([email protected])
Alayne Unterberger began her career as a bilingual social
worker and outreach specialist with high-risk minority youth and
families. She received her M.A. from the University of South
Florida and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Medical
Anthropology. Her research areas include: critical medical
anthropology, participatory action research, youth-led programming,
cultural brokerage, migration–immigration, and community
engagement. Since 2002, she has been Executive Director of the
Florida Institute for Community Studies, Inc. She has worked in the
United States, Mexico, and, most recently, Nicaragua.
([email protected])
Tim Wallace is Associate Professor and Applied Anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. His primary interests lie within the subfield of the anthropology of tourism. His most recent research has taken him to the communities around Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands. He has carried out applied research work on tourism in Costa Rica, Hungary, and Madagascar. In addition, he has done applied work in Mozambique studying maize marketing; Ecuador for a potato marketing project; Togo, West Africa, to study economic development policy; Peru to research community development strategies in Peru; and, Hiroshima, Japan to study international education policy. He has also done research in North Carolina on farmers markets in Raleigh, North Carolina, and on socioeconomic responses to pest management practices among tomato and cabbage farmers in North Carolina. He has been President of the Southern Anthropological Association and the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, was a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is coeditor of the NAPA Bulletin. He recently edited NAPA Bulletin 23 on “Tourism and Applied Anthropologists.” ([email protected])