SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


2005 “Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti (African Vernacular Medicine) in the Age of Intensified Globalization.” In Tracy Leudke and Harry West (eds.) Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeastern Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2002 “Walk of Death on a Dominican Batey.” Anthropology News, Vol. 43, No. 1. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

2002 “(Un)Imagining Futures for the Disenfranchised.” Anthropology News, Vol. 43, No. 7. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

2000 “White Africans and AIDS: A Challenge to Conventional Thinking.” Anthropology News,Vol. 41, No. 7. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

2002 “The Value of Human Life: Some Notes on AIDS in South Africa.” Institute of International Health Newsletter. Vol. 14, no.4. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan.

2000 “African Witchcraft at the Millennium: Musings on a Modern Phenomenon in Zimbabwe.” Journal of the International Institute, Winter, Vol. 7, No. 2 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

2000 “Signs of the Times: Missionaries and Tribal Genesis in Southern Rhodesia.” Transforming Anthropology. Vol. 9, No. 2. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.

 

 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS


2005 “Community-Based Participatory Research in International Settings.” Invited speaker for International Medicine seminar series between the USC Medical School and MUSC. January 9.

2005 “Famn Vayant: Haitian Women and the Economy of Suspended Rights in the Dominican Republic.” Invited speaker for colloquium entitled, “Women’s Global Work,” Department of Anthropology CABLE, November 18.

2005 “Health and Human Rights: Haitian Braceros in the Dominican Republic.” Invited symposium speaker at Politics, Caribbean Societies, and Anthropological Research, jointly sponsored by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University, February 19.

2004 “Social Justice and the Health of Haitian Braceros.” Invited conference speaker at the Undergraduate International Research Conference on Global Public Health, sponsored by Morehouse College and the School for International Training. April 23-25.

2003 “A Plague from the West: Anti-Haitianism and the Racialization of Disease in the Dominican Republic.” Invited colloquia speaker (Dr. Paul Farmer, discussant), the David Rockefeller Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Harvard University, January 29.

2002 “Of Markets and Medicines: When Traditional’ Zimbabwean Medicine is not so Traditional.” Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 20-24, 2002.

2000 “Assessing the Role of Traditional Healers in Combating HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe.” Invited paper presented at the XIII International AIDS Conference. Durban, South Africa, July 9-14.