Jerome Crowder, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston

Mailing Address: 218 PGH/TLC2
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
U.S.A.
Physical Address: 123A Technology Annex, University of Houston
1-713-743-1250 (tel.)
1-713-743-3376 (fax)

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website: www.jeromecrowder.com

Current Research Interests:

Health Practices and beliefs among Latin American migrants in Houston, Texas; Urbanization and Health in Latin American Cities, Health Care Decision Making in El Alto, Bolivia, medical anthropology, visual ethnography, urbanization, migration, religion and health, issues of community, family, identity, development and Public Health.

Education:

Post-Doctoral Fellow: 1999-2000, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, School of Public Health
PhD: 1998, University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology
Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies: 1994, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh
BA: 1989, University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology

Honors:

2003 Fulbright Research/Teaching Award, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Perú 2003 Curriculum Development Award, University of Houston
1999 – 2000 National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Health Promotion Research and Development, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston
1997 – 1998 Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology
1995 – 1996 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, Institute of International Education
1992 – 1994 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, CLAS, University of Pittsburgh (Aymara)
1993 Tinker Foundation Summer Research Grant, CLAS, University of Pittsburgh

Selected Publications:

Living on the Edge: A Photographic Essay on Urban Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Visual Anthropology Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 263-287. 2003.

Disparate Views of Community in Primary Health Care: How Perceptions Influence Success. Co-authored with Coral Wayland. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 230-247. 2002.

Short Time, Big Story: 24 Hours of Exploring Life in Puno. Presented at the 21st Annual society for Visual Anthropology Research Conference, November 2005, Washington, D.C.

Researching Mobile Populations: Migrants Health Care Meets 21st Century Technology. Presented at Supercomputing. 2005. November, Seattle. WA.

24 Horas de Puno: Exploring Life in Urban Perú. Presented at the 2004 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, August, San Francisco, CA.

“And Then We Threw Rocks”: Political Spectacle in the Barrios of El Alto. Presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2002, New Orleans, LA.

Leaving Nothing to Chance in El Alto: Considering the Aymara “Urbasino”. Presented at the first annual meeting of the Bolivian Studies Association, March 2002, New Orleans, LA.

Ditches, Stitches and Witches: Health Repercussions of Urbanization in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 62nd meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2002, Atlanta, GA.

Living on the Edge: A Photographic Essay on Urban Aymara Migrants in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2001, Washington, D.C.

On Every Corner: Exploring the Health Care Role of Local Stores in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 2000, San Francisco, CA.

Sueños Urbanos / Urban Dreams: Searching for a Better Life in El Alto, Bolivia. Presented at the 2000 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, July, Portland, ME.

Multiple Meanings of Community in an Andean Barrio. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2000, San Francisco, CA.