K. Jill Fleuriet
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Research
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Research
My specialty is medical anthropology with expertise in the qualitative study and analysis of culture, culture change, and health disparities among Hispanic populations in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. 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. Originally from Harlingen, Texas, I have two primary research areas of interest: 1) reproductive health and health care among immigrant women from Mexico and Hispanic women living in the borderlands of South Texas; and 2) applied projects on Hispanic health disparities in San Antonio and the Texas-Mexico border. These projects include the relationship among art and aging, Hispanic childhood obesity, and museum representations of culture. Increasingly, my work in reproductive health and health care is interdisciplinary with sociology and nursing.
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 teach Medical Anthropology, Theory in Cultural Anthropology, and Teaching Anthropology. In the Spring of 2013, I will teach Anthropology of the Body. I advise students conducting research in medical anthropology, educational disparities, and identity, social justice and community-based movements in South Texas.
Representative Publications
Under review - K. Jill Fleuriet and T. S. Sunil. Perceived Social Stress, Pregnancy-Related Anxiety, Depression and Subjective Social Status among Pregnant Mexican and Mexican American Women in Texas. Submitted to Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
2012 - Nikky Greer, K. Jill Fleuriet, and Adelita G. Cantu. Acrylic Rx: A Program Evaluation of a Professionally Taught Painting Class Among Older Americans. Art & Health XX(X):1-12.
2009 - Pregnant, Uninsured, and Undocumented: Prenatal Care for Immigrant Women in South Texas. The Applied Anthropologist 29(1):4-21.
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.
