Visual Anthropology at USC includes a range of options for visual media ranging from ethnographic film production, to analyzing fictional cinema, to photography. Visual media are used in connection with a written thesis involving anthropological inquiry. Eight USC faculty are involved with the Visual Anthropology Credential Program, including professors specializing in cultural anthropology, media arts, and archaeology. For more on this program and its affiliated faculty please go to: http://www.cas.sc.edu/anth/Visualcert.html

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH Leatherman works with the Department of Health and Environmental Control on barriers to early prenatal care in the State and on nutrition both on the coast of South Carolina and in the Yucatan. D. Simmons works on issues of health and human rights, health disparities, and African vernacular medicine in Zimbabwe, the Dominican Republic, and the state of South Carolina. Gibson works transnationally in the US and Mexico on women's reproductive health focusing on pregnancy/birth outcomes and experiences.