Projects

• Community Commons

• Community Sabbatical Research Leave Program

  (University of Texas Humanities Institute)

• Health and Medical Humanities Initiatives at the University of Texas-Austin

  (University of Texas at Austin)

• Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus

  (University of Texas Humanities Institute)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (University College London)

  (King's College London)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (Dartmouth)

  (Dartmouth College)

biography

Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies; Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (current theme: Health, Wellbeing & Healing.) Her current research concerns the role that 20th-century American youth organizations played in shaping notions of gender, race, citizenship, and health. She serves on the External Advisory Board of Migrant Clinicians Network.

research interests

Politics of representation, politics of culture, identity & alterity, museums and education, indigenous studies, feminist theory, youth organizations, cultural citizenship, autoethnography, public humanities