REU Student Darien McElwee Wins Award at NSF Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM In February, former MHDI REU Student Darien (Penny) McElwee presented at the NSF Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM in Washington, D.C. At the conference, McElwee presented a poster entitled "The Effects
Last week, an article about my research, written by Joseph Brean, appeared in the Canadian newspaper The National Post. Considering the reputation of the Postmedia Network, I was skeptical as soon as he contacted me, so before agreeing to do the interview, one of the first
REACH director Kirk Dombrowski recently contributed to a study on the cultural and health dynamics of Alaska Natives. Wide health outcome disparities exist between Alaska Natives and non-AN relating to cardiovascular health. For instance, AN persons are much more likely to die from heart attack
Last week, REACH Post Doc, Elspeth Ready, presented on her findings at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington D.C. Ready's presentation titled "'Who, being loved, is poor?' Employment, food insecurity and domestic partnerships in Nunavik" portrayed the anthropological elements of food insecurity in Canadian Arctic Inuit communities.
Postdoc Elspeth Ready gave a talk to the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, on October 19th, on using social network analysis to examine how food sharing contributes to community food security and climate change resilience
Another year of the Minority Health Disparities (MHD) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) has been successfully completed! Undergraduates from across the United States, with knowledge in multiple disciplines, joined together at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to complete a summer research project. Professors from sociology, agricultural
REACH Lab's Jerreed Ivanich and Kirk Dombrowski joined University of Alaska-Fairbanks partners in collecting baseline fieldwork on the Qungasvik Project led by UAF anthropology Stacy Rasmus and Univ Minnesota-Duluth's James Allen. Great team to work with, and it was work! The project focuses on cultural
2016 Kirk Dombrowski, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Joshua Moses, and Bilal Khan, “Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit population movements and inequalities in the land claims era”, Current Anthropology 57(6): 785-805. The importance of community relocation experiences for aboriginal land claims movements is well documented; the role
Creating a Community of Practice to Prevent Suicide Through Multiple Channels: Describing the Theoretical Foundations and Structured Learning of PC CARES Lisa Wexler,1 Diane McEachern,2 Gloria DiFulvio,1 Cristine Smith,1 Louis F. Graham,1,3 and Kirk Dombrowski4 It is critical to develop practical, effective, ecological, and decolonizing approaches to
Editor: Mark Aldenderfer, University of California, Merced Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit Population Movements and Inequalities in the Land Claims Era Kirk Dombrowski, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan, and Joshua Moses The importance of community relocation experiences for aboriginal land claims movements is well documented; the role