Faculty Related to Medical Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida includes 35 faculty members, with another two dozen affiliates in other departments. Within the department, at least 12 members of the faculty have teaching or research interests related to medical anthropology. This group represents three major subfields of the discipline—cultural, biological, and archaeological anthropology. Few programs can offer such broad training in medical anthropology.
Faculty in the Department
Sharon Abramowitz (medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, violence and conflict, health sector transitions, humanitarian intervention, Upper Guinea/Mano River Region [Guinea, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierre Leone], gender-based violence), Assistant Professor
Willie Baber (public health, applied medical anthropology, Caribbean, culture theory, race and ethnicity, HIV/AIDS), Professor
Allan Burns (applied medical anthropology, indigenous rights, teenage tobacco initiation and use, migrant housing, visual anthropology), Professor
Peter Collings (cross-cultural perspectives on human aging and development, human ecology, Native North America, Circumpolar Arctic and Subarctic), Associate Professor
Susan deFrance (zooarchaeology, diet and subsistence, foodways and cuisine), Associate Professor
Clarence C. Gravlee (social inequalities in health; ethnicity, race, and racism; cultural dimensions of psychosocial stress; research methods; Latin America and the Caribbean, United States), Associate Professor
John Krigbaum (disease and human evolution, paleodiet and paleopathology, evolutionary medicine), Associate Professor
Connie Mulligan (molecular anthropology, genetics of complex disease, New World/Asia colonization, ancient DNA), Professor
Anita Spring (international agricultural development and food security, environment and resource management, women and gender in international development), Professor Emerita
J. Richard Stepp (ethnobotany and ecological anthropology, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, Mesoamerica), Associate Professor
Alyson Young (child health, infectious disease, poverty, human growth and development, Sub-Saharan Africa), Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2008)
Affiliated anthropologists
Sharleen H. Simpson (international health, women's health, sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases), Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Elizabeth Guillette (women’s and children’s health, environmental health, contamination and reproductive health), Associate Research Scientist
Della E. McMillan (International development, applied anthropology, nutrition, infectious disease), Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Anthropology
James A. Lindsay (nutrition, food safety, agriculture), USDA Agricultural Research Service
Bridgett Rahim-Williams (minority health disparities among populations of the African Diaspora, pain and self-management of chronic disease, cultural competence in health promotion and disease prevention, community-based participatory research), Research Assistant Professor, Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, College of Dentistry