K. Jill Fleuriet
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Research
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Research
My work focuses on the experiences of medically underserved Hispanic/Latino populations in south Texas. Broadly, I consider health, health care and illness from political economic and feminist perspectives. I am particularly interested in health disparities within the context of transnationalism, biomedical hegemony, and identity. I have two ongoing projects: 1) ethnographic research of pregnancy and birth among immigrant Latinas from Mexico, and 2) a program assessment of a professionally conducted arts program on the health and well-being of lower-income Hispanic seniors.
Teaching
At the undergraduate level, I teach across levels, including Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, The Field Experience, Medical Anthropology, and Death & Dying. At the graduate level, I have taught Paradigms in Americanist Anthropology and will teach Medical Anthropology in 2008-2009.
Representative Publications
2009 - Problems in the Latina Paradox: Measuring Social Support for Pregnant Immigrant Women from Mexico. Anthropology & Medicine 16(1):49-59.
2009 - Pregnant, Uninsured, and Undocumented: Prenatal Care for Immigrant Women in South Texas. The Applied Anthropologist 29(1):4-21.
2009 - Health Care Among the Kumiai Indians of Baja California, Mexico: Structural and Social Barriers. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 33(1):47-63.
2009 - La Tecnologia y Las Monjitas: Constellations of Authoritative Knowledge at a Religious Birthing Center in South Texas. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(3):212-234.
