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CURRICULUM VITAE

Sarah Bronwen Horton

Department of Anthropology 1440 Harrison Street

University of Montana Missoula, MT

Missoula, MT 59812 59802

sarah.horton@umontana.edu HortonSarah@

(406) 243-6249 (406) 543-6443

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FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

TOPICAL  & THEORETICAL : Medical Anthropology ; Applied Anthropology ; Ethnography of U.S. Public Health Care System ; Governance & Health Citizenship ; Nationalism ; Globalization, Migration, & Transnationalism ; Latino Studies ; Families & Childhood

REGIONAL : US ; Southwest (New Mexico and California) ; Mexico

EDUCATION

2003-5 National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University

2003 Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Albuquerque, with Distinction.

1996 M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University, New York City, NY.

1992 B.A., Literature & Society, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Magna cum laude, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa 1991-2.

POSITIONS HELD

2007- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Montana; affiliated faculty in the School of Public and Community Health Sciences

2005- Research Faculty (Associate Specialist III), Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine and Department of Preventive & Restorative Dentistry, University of California-San Francisco.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2006 Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego (a collaborative project with the Social Science Research Council)

2003 Ph.D. with Distinction, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

2002 Rudolf Virchow Graduate Student Prize, Critical Anthropology of Health, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

2001 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, UNM

2000. New Mexico Folklore Scholars’ Award, UNM

1999 Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Fellowship alternate

1999 Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Scholarship for Graduate Study

1998 Karl Schwerin Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, UNM

1997-9 Graduate Study Fellowship, American Association of University Women

1995-6 President's Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

1995 Columbia University’s Scheps Award to fund preliminary research on immigration narratives among Mexican immigrants in New Mexico.

1991-2 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University

FIELD RESEARCH

2006-7 Co-Investigator & Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine, University of California-San Francisco. “California’s Dental Public Health Care System: Contributing to Oral Health Disparities among Latino Children,” Judith Barker, PI.

Funded through the University of California Institute for US-Mexico Studies. CA.

Supervised research team on the effect of public dental health policy on dental practices in rural and urban California.

2005-6 Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine and Department of Preventive & Restorative Dentistry, University of California-San Francisco. “Hispanic Oral Health: A Rural and Urban Ethnography,” Judith Barker, PI.

Funded through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Mendota, CA.

Conducted nine months of ethnography on health care safety net and Mexican American beliefs and practices regarding children’s oral health.

2005 Ethnographer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. “The Mental Health

Correlates of Family Separation for Salvadoran Immigrants.” Cambridge, MA.

Conducted interviews with Salvadoran immigrant adults about their experiences coping

with their immobility and separation from their children while living in the US.

2004. Ethnographer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. “The Culture of

Medicine and Health Disparities,” Mary-Jo Good, PI. Funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Cambridge, MA.

Conducted interviews with Latino mental health clinicians on how the “culture of medicine” translates into disparities in health care at a Latino mental health clinic.

2003 Ethnographer, The Religion in Immigration Project, funded through the Pew Charitable Trust, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Conducted research on the appeal of Catholic Charismatic belief among Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants, and on the transnationalization of faith.

2001-2 Research Fellow, Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos, City University of New York—Brooklyn. “Religion Among the New Immigrants.” Santa Fe, NM.

Conducted ethnographic study of the integration of Mexican immigrants in a traditionally

Hispano New Mexican parish in Santa Fe.

2000-1 Dissertation Fieldwork on the Santa Fe Fiesta. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Conducted intensive fieldwork with groups organizing the Santa Fe Fiesta on the origin and elaboration of the event as an expression of cultural nationalism among Hispanos.

1997-9 Researcher, Ethnological Team, Medicaid/Managed Care Project, Department of

Anthropology, UNM. Louise Lamphere and Howard Waitzkin, PIs.

Conducted intensive fieldwork on effects of Medicaid Managed Care on community health clinics and on Hispanos’ access to care in rural and urban New Mexico.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2007- Consultant, “Latinos’ Water Consumption Beliefs and Behaviors.” Funded through the

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health.

Co-wrote and will carry out research on extension grant on Latinos’ tap water avoidance and acceptability of fluoride delivery mechanisms in urban and rural California.

2006. Co-Investigator, “California’s Public Dental Health Insurance Program: Creating

Disparities in Oral Health Care for Disadvantaged Latino Children,” with Judith Barker, PI. Funded through the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, Riverside, CA. $15,000.

Co-wrote, directed, and supervised small research grant on the role of California state oral health policy in exacerbating oral health disparities among low-income Latino children.

2005 Collaborator, “Cultural Citizenship and Health Disparities,” Mary-Jo Good, PI. Funded through the Russell Sage Foundation, Cambridge, MA.

Helped design grant on mental health professionals’ role in educating new Latino immigrants in a Latino mental health clinic about their place in the U.S.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Under Contract The Santa Fe Fiesta, Re-Invented: Staking Ethno-Nationalist Claims to a

Disappearing Homeland. (Under contract) School for Advanced Research Press (formerly “School for American Research Press”).

REFEREED JOURNALS

In Press “Latino Immigrant Parents’ Conceptions of Oral Disease.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Journal of Public Health Dentistry.

2007 “Towards an Ethnography of the Uninsured: Gay Becker’s Work in Progress.” Medical Anthropology 26 (4): 293-298.

2006 “The Double Burden on Safety Net Providers: Placing Health Disparities in the Context of the Privatization of U.S. Health Care.” Social Science & Medicine 63(10): 2702-2714.

2005 “Los Inmigrantes Cubanos y Mexicanos en el Sistema de Salud Pública de los Estados Unidos.” Revista Colombiana de Antropología 40: 61-84. Special Issue: Anthropological Perspectives on Public Health.

2004 “Different Subjects: The Health Care System’s Participation in the Differential Construction of the Cultural Citizenship of Cuban Refugees and Mexican Immigrants.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 18(4): 472-489.

2002 “New Mexico’s Cuarto Centenario and Spanish American Nationalism: Collapsing

Past Glory and Present Dispossession.” Journal of the Southwest 44(1): 49-60.

2001 “Transforming the Safety Net: Responses to Medicaid managed care in Rural and Urban New Mexico. “ American Anthropologist 101(3): 733-746. First author, with Joanne McCloskey, Caroline Todd, and Marta Henriksen.

2001 “Where is the ‘Mexican’ in ‘New Mexican’?: Enacting History, Enacting

Dominance in the Santa Fe Fiestas.” The Public Historian: Special Issue on Latino Public History 23(4): 41-54

EDITED COLLECTIONS

2007 “Ritual and Return: Diasporic Hispanos and the Santa Fe Fiesta,” chapter in Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. Phillip B. Gonzales, editor.

2004 “Land and Rural New Mexican Hispanics’ Mistrust of Federal Programs:

The Unintended Consequences of Medicaid Eligibility Rules,” pp. 234-244 in Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer, eds., Unhealthy Health Policies. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

2003 “The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande,” by Charles Montgomery. The Public Historian 25 (2): 148-150.

OTHER WRITINGS

2006 “Legal Citizens Are Healthy Citizens.” First author, with Miguel Arias. Fresno Bee, June 11, 2006, p. A6.

2006 “A Call to an Anthropology of Health Policy.” First author, with Louise Lamphere.

Anthropology Newsletter 47(1).

1997. “Rich Man, Poor Town: A Classic Tale of the West.” Santa Fe Reporter.

1997 “Land of the Temporarily Free: Guatemalans' Dreams of 'El Norte' Become

Nightmares of Nowhere.” Santa Fe Reporter.

IN SUBMISSION

n.d. “Stains on Their Self-Discipline: Public Health, Hygiene, and the Disciplining of Undocumented Immigrants in the Nation’s Internal Borderlands.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Submitted to American Ethnologist, April 4, 2007.

n.d. “Consuming Childhood: ‘Lost’ and ‘Ideal’ Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration.” Invited submission to Anthropological Quarterly for a special issue on childhood and the state. June 20, 2007.

n.d. “The Latino ‘Spring Time’ of the Catholic Church: Lay Religious Networks and

Transnationalism from Below at St. Anne’s Parish,” chapter in On the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana Duke University Press. Lois Lorentzen and Joaquin Gonzalez, editors.

n.d. “Mexican Immigrant Parents’ Interpretation of Children’s Dental Symptoms in California’s Central Valley.” First author, with Judith C. Barker. Submitted to Community Dental Health, March 2007.

IN PREPARATION

n.d. “It’s Not Real Insurance: Private Dentists’ Perceptions of Denti-Cal and the Contradictions of the Dental Public Health System.” First author, with Josaphine Stevenson, Benjamin Chaffee, and Judith C. Barker.

n.d. “Embodied Inequalities: Oral Health and Social Stigma among Farrmworker Young Adults.” First author, with Judith C. Barker.

n.d. “A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones: Family Separation and the Anomic Space of Non-Citizenship.”

n.d. “Examining the Efficacy of Cost-Containment: the Effects of Oral Healthcare Policy and Clinical Practice on Low-income Latino Children.” Second author, with Josaphine Stevenson, Benjamin Chaffee, and Judith C. Barker.

n.d. “The Dento-Enamel Junction and Clinical Decision-making among Dentists Participating in Denti-Cal.” Second author, with Benjamin Chaffee, Josaphine Stevenson, and Judith C. Barker.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND INVITED COLLOQUIA

INVITED COLLOQUIA

2007 “Oral Health Disparities for Latino Children: What Ethnography Can Contribute.” Talk presented at the Inaugural Dean John Greene Lecture. UCSF’s Dental School’s “Alumni Day.” March 30, 2007.

2006 “Oral Health Disparities for Farmworker Children: What Ethnography Can Contribute.” Talk presented at the Dental Public Health Colloquium. Department of Preventive & Restorative Dentistry, UCSF. November 2006.

2005 “Culture and Health Disparities in the US: Investigating the Doctor-Patient

Relationship.” Organizer of panel at annual meeting of American Anthropological

Association, San Francisco, CA. Panelists: Anne Becker (Harvard), Christina Getrich

(UNM), Mary-Jo Good (Harvard), Ladson Hinton (UC Davis), Sarah Horton (Harvard,) Howard Waitzkin (UNM), Catie Willging (UNM), and Sarah Horton (Harvard).

2004-5 “The Practice of Freedom: Citizenship, Inequality, and Mental Health.” Co-organizer of Friday Morning Seminar in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Speakers: Gay Becker (UCSF), Gilles Bibeau (U Montreal), Veena Das (Johns Hopkins), Mary-Jo Good and Sarah Horton (Harvard), Carol Greenhouse (Princeton), Spero Manson (U Colorado), Theresa O’Nell (U Oregon), Lorna Rhodes (U Washington), Carolyn Rouse (Princeton).

2004 “The Second Generation Decline: Comparative Perspectives on Acculturation and Mental

Health among Latino Immigrants.” Organizer of conference at the Department of Social

Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Panelists: Maggie Alegría (Harvard), Doris Chang (New School), Esperanza Díaz (Yale), Peter Guarnaccia (Rutgers), Ladson Hinton (UC Davis), Janis Jenkins (Case Western), Roberto Lewis-Fernandez (Columbia), Mary Waters (Harvard), William Vega (UMDNJ).

2002 “Postmodern Mexicano.” Organizer of panel at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. Invited by Society for Anthropology of North America and the Association of Latina/o Anthropologists. Panelists: José Limón (UT-Austin), Sylvia Rodríguez (UNM), Richard Flores (UT-Austin), Doug Foley (UT-Austin), Mike Trujillo (UT-Austin) and Sarah Horton (UNM).

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

2007 “Embodied Inequalities: The Long-Term Effects of Underfunded Medicaid Programs,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, CANADA.

2006 “A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones: Intergenerational Tensions within Transnational Salvadoran Family Forms,” delivered at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San José, CA.

2006 “Embodied Inequalities: How California’s Public Health Insurance Policies Create Compromised Childhoods for Farmworker Children,” delivered at Society for the Anthropology of North America meeting, New York City.

2006 “Defining Decay: Contrasting Notions of ‘Risk’ Among California’s Public Dental Healht Insurance Program and Dentists Treating Farmworker Youths,” delivered at the Society for Medical Anthropology meeting, Vancouver, CANADA.

2005 “Paternal Providers and Passive Patients: How Class Differences Disrupt “Cultural

Transparency” in a Latino Mental Health Clinic,” delivered at the American

Anthropological Association meeting, Washington, D.C.

2004 “Risky Subjects: Medicaid Managed Care and the Treatment of the Undocumented,”

delivered at the Society for Medical Anthropology/Society for Applied Anthropology

joint meetings, Dallas, TX.

2001 “Medicaid Managed Care and the Construction of Cuban and Mexican Immigrants’

Cultural Citizenship,” delivered at American Anthropological Association meeting, D.C.

2001 “Patients as ‘Friends and Family,’ Patients as ‘Potential Costs’: Staff’s Negotiation

of Medicaid Managed Care Priorities at Rural Health Centers,” delivered at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Mérida, Mexico.

2000 “Ritual as Home-coming: Returnees’ and Natives’ Construction of ‘Home’ in the Santa Fe Fiesta,” delivered at American Anthropological Association meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2000 “Ritual and Return: Narratives of 'Home-coming' and Loss in the Santa Fe Fiesta,”

delivered at Maxwell Museum of Anthropology for New Mexico Folklore Scholars' Award.

2000. “The Construction of Cuban and Mexican American Patients at a Health Care Clinic in

Albuquerque, NM,” delivered at annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COURSES TAUGHT

Fall 2007 Anthropology of Western Clinical Settings (ANTH 595). Designed and taught graduate seminar in medical anthropology. University of Montana, Missoula, MT.

Fall 2007 Globalization, Migration & Transnationalism (ANTH 430). Designed and taught mixed undergraduate and graduate course on globalization. University of Montana.

Spring 2003 Ritual, Religion and Healing (ANTH 5). Designed and taught introductory lecture class. Department of Anthropology, Gavilan Community College, Gilroy, CA.

Fall 2002 Ritual, Religion and Healing (ANTH 5). Designed and taught introductory class for 60 students. Department of Anthropology, Gavilan Community College.

Fall 2000 Cultures of the World (ANTH 130). Designed and taught upper-division undergraduate introduction to Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, UNM.

Spring 1999 Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101). Designed and taught introductory course. Department of General Studies, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), Albuquerque, NM.

Fall 1999 Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101). Designed and taught introductory course, SIPI.

ASSISTANT POSITIONS

Fall 1999 Assisted with Comparative Ethnic Relations (ANTH 344), taught by Sylvia Rodríguez and Language and the Human Animal (ANTH 110), taught by Larry Gorbet. Presented lectures, graded essays, and worked with students on writing. Department of Anthropology, UNM.

Spring 1998 Assisted with Comparative Ethnic Relations (ANTH 344), taught by Sylvia Rodríguez. Designed study questions, met with students individually, and graded papers. Department of Anthropology, UNM.

PREPARED COURSES

Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology

Anthropology & Public Health Ethnography of U.S. Health Care System

Globalization, Migration, Transnationalism Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

2007-8 Chair, Program Committee, Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA)

2007 Reviewer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

2006 Program Committee, SANA

2006 Judge for the Critical Anthropology of Health’s Rudolf Virchow Professional Prize

2006 Reviewer, Medical Anthropology, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

2005- Reviewer, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

2003 Reviewer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

2003-5 Treasurer, SANA

STUDENTS SUPERVISED (on UC MEXUS research team)

2006-7 Josaphine Stevenson, M.A. (Anthropology, CSU-Long Beach), UCSF

Pedro Arista, M.P.H. (Public Health, SF State), UCSF

Benjamin Chaffee, DDS & Ph.D. (Dentistry, UCSF), UCSF

STUDENTS ADVISED

2006- Janet Bush, (Ph.D. dissertation), Anthropology, University of Montana

2007- Apryle Pickering (Ph.D. dissertation) Anthropology, University of Montana

2007- Darrell Geisler (M.A. thesis), Anthropology, University of Montana

2007- Aaron Zadow, (M.A. thesis), Anthropology, University of Montana

2007- Erin Klahn (M.A. thesis), Anthropology, University of Montana

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